Now the Minster had caught up with the men, and he took his wife by the arm. He acted with a calm and a confidence that seemed oddly out of keeping with the situation. It was as though he thought nothing bad could possibly happen to him or his wife, because they had God on their side. Perhaps he figured the quartet of gunslingers would come to reason, or that he would be able to shame them into giving up their plans to lay siege to the town by appealing to their better nature. Yes, that must be it, the Sheriff found himself thinking. You could see it in the Minister's manner. Confidence of that sort came from a kind of unshakeable inner belief in human goodness. The Minister must be one of those men who believed there was decency in the heart of everyone, and all you had to do was appeal t
