While they was gassin' to you I had one knee on Telza's windpipe an' my rifle pointin' in the general direction of the Taggarts, figgerin' that if they tried to start anything I'd beat them to it.

But as it turned out it wasn't necessary.

I sure appreciated your tender-heartedness toward them poor dumb brutes of the Taggarts.
"After you set the Taggarts to walkin' home, I took Telza to Lazette an' locked him up for murderin' Sharp." "I reckon, then," said Calumet, a puzzled frown wrinkling his forehead as he looked from Taggart to the freshly dug hole; "that somebody else killed Taggart.

It was someone who knew where the idol was, too--he'd been diggin' for it." "I reckon you've got me," said Toban.

"Sharp an' Telza an' you an' Betty is the only one's that ever saw the diagram.