The knowledge he had gained from overhearing their conversation would have made it comparatively easy for MacDonald and him to strike them a perhaps fatal blow through the half-breed DeBar.

As the situation stood now, he figured that Quade and Culver Rann held the advantage.

Whatever they had planned to do they would put into quick execution.

They would not lose a minute.
It was not for himself that Aldous feared.

Neither did he fear for Joanne.
Every drop of red fighting blood in him was ready for further action, and he was determined that Quade should find no opportunity of accomplishing any scheme he might have against Joanne's person.