As there was only a little whiskey spattered upon his coat, Alexander McGlincy showed no signs whatsoever of the encounter. Luberly was less fortunate as his jaw was rapidly swelling to the size of a shot pouch, but even this was not visible as it was impossible to penetrate the wilderness of his beard with the n***d eye.
These men were too used to brawling to give the actual physical part of it a second thought. But they were intensely annoyed, nevertheless.
McGlincy growled until his jowls flapped. “The impertinence of him! Damned savage! Think of it. To come into my presence and start a fight with no provocation whatever. Treacherous as an Indian. But he didn’t last long. Rot me, no. I showed him a thing or two about manners.”
“I’ll say you did,” applauded Luberly.
“You saw how he s
