Me an' your dad was a heap friendly until we had a fallin' out over that she-devil which he lived with--Ezela." There was an insincere grin on his face.
It was plain to Calumet that the elder Taggart had some ulterior motive in suggesting a peace conference.

He noted that while Taggart talked his eyes kept roving around the clearing as though in search of something.

That something, Calumet divined, was Sharp and Telza.

He suspected that Calumet had seen Telza and Sharp, or one of them, enter the clearing, and had followed them.

Neal had said that they had seen Calumet when he had been racing up and down the river trail; they had suspected he had been after Sharp or Telza, and had followed him.