After Max drew a gun on Dr Benson, and kept him from boarding a train for the Governor to get him to clamp down on Max's gambling house, Max took Benson back to the hotel and his partner's private quarters. He was for taking the doctor on a 'last ride' immediately, but Max refused to allow this. They quarreled, and in the heat of the argument, his partner whipped out a pistol! Max reached for his, and if Benson hadn't leaped between them, they would have surely shot it out...