"Raisin' Hell is a profitable crop!" said the man with the shotgun and Templar was beginning to believe him. The sheriff offered Templar $50 a week; the saloon owner offered him $75. Templar had gotten drunk and laid out almost every able–bodied man in town. But there was one more offer to come. A very rich man would pay him $5000 for one month's service as a bodyguard. When Templar gasped at the price the rich man looked at him earnestly and said "I live in constant fear of murder."