Sam didn’t offer a thing.  He was going to let Irene talk as long as she had a voice.  He was encouraged about Tim’s knife, even if the descriptions varied. Irene and the marshal agreed that it had been taken as a trophy of some kind.  Further more apparently the marshal had apparently seen the man in the saloon.  It did bother Sam that the man had laid hands on Irene.  She’d either not shared it or he’d been deaf when she did.  He did not cotton to that at all . . . men manhandling women.   He’d have been after the guy until he’d run him to ground.  He was having questions now about the marshal’s commitment to his job, if he’d been there and let the guy get away . . . especially with his reputation.<br/>