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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: "Don't y'u see, dear, I can't give it up?"
"I see you won't. You care more for your pride than for me."
"No, it isn't that. I've got to go. It isn't that I want to leave
y'u, God knows. But I've given my word, and I must keep it. Do
y'u want me to be a quitter, and y'u so game yourself? Do y'u
want it to go all over this cattle country that I gave my word
and took it back because I lost my nerve?"
"The boy that takes a dare isn't a hero, is he! There's a higher
courage that refuses to be drawn into such foolishness, that
doesn't give way to the jeers of the empty headed."
"I don't think that is a parallel case. I'm sorry, we can't see
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