Budd, too, don't want to break his neck trying to overtake me." His impatience made him unjust.

Neither man nor beast had had time to come up, even though each had set out at their best speed the moment they heard the signal.

They would be on hand in due course, unless prevented.
Weber called them again, with a sharp, peremptory signal, which could not fail to apprise both of the urgency of the case.

Then, afraid of losing any advantage, he pushed after the fleeing cattle.

The figures of the sleeping animals around him grew fewer in number.