Blue Duck was not an easy man to shoot down. Anyway, in real life things don't usually go that neatly. Pancho Villa died, for instance, in a tawdry street assassination, shot up in his car, and he couldn't even come up with any noble dying words.

He said, "It can't end like this. Tell them I said something."

What a sad end for a man who had lived life to its dramatic fullness prior to that sudden and totally unexpected ending.