- Paladin: But the blaze of dawn comes reason, and the fears of the night are gone, and we will remember them not, and in retrospect will remember only that we were strangers in a strange land and other strangers gave us food.
- Paladin: That's a hangman's rope.
- Phineas Gaunt - Executioner: That's right. Phineas Gaunt. Tinker. Wheelright. Shoemaker. Barber. Taster of wine. And executioner. There's someone to hang in Soledad.
- Paladin: If there are indispensable people in any situation, there are a victim and an executioner at a hanging.