- [Adam and the bartender have a bet on the outcome of their chess game]
- Adam MacLean: Are you going to pay up?
- Bartender: Aw, don't be so greedy, Adam. Hey, look! I do have a move right there.
- Adam MacLean: Yeah, ha-ha. Your rooks get around too much, Badger - especially when I'm not looking.
- Bartender: Are you accusing me of skullduggery?
- Adam MacLean: No, just old-fashioned cheating - the same as always.
- [last lines]
- Adam MacLean: [narrating] Corporal Cort Hamish, formerly of the 7th Cavalry rode away from Yellowstone a man who once again had begun to live. In another direction rode Mark Ryan - a dead man who had not yet found a way to die.