You can send a man over after them when you get back, an' if they want to go home, why, I'll let them." His voice changed again; it rang with a menacing command.
"Walkin' is good!" he said; "get goin'! You've got three minutes to get to that bend in the trail over by the crick.

It's about half a mile.

I'm turnin' my back.

If I see you when I turn around I'm workin' that rifle there." There was a silence which might have lasted a second.

Only this small space of time was required by the Taggarts to convince them that Calumet was in deadly earnest.