[Sudden 10] • The Law O' the Lariat

The word had filtered out that Sudden was dead - and there was no one around to contradict it. Men who had cringed before, swaggered now; others boasted of their encounters with Sudden, the coward. Only one man stayed quiet: a tall; saturnine fellow wearing two guns tied low. When he heard the rumours, he gave a thin smile; and when someone asked him who he was, he said softly: "James Green." James Green - alias Sudden!