Smiling Charlie Author:Max Brand, Frederick Faust Nobody could move a gun faster than Smiling Charlie -- except that on this day there was a difference. The devil that was in me had made my eyes faster than human. And while I went for my own gun, it seemed to me that Charlie's hand wasn't lightning no more, but just plain, slow lead. — And as his revolver came clear I pu... more »t a bullet straight through his body. Charlie tossed his gun aside, and it fell with a rattle on the rocks. "Because I'm a dead man," says Charlie, "there's no reason why I shouldn't take you along to hell with me!" « less