"DeBar is with him, an' probably the woman.

Likewise three cut-throats to fill the other saddles.

They've gone prepared to fight." "And Quade ?" Old Donald hunched his shoulders, and suddenly John's face grew dark and hard.
"I understand," he spoke, half under his breath.

"Quade has disappeared--but he isn't with Culver Rann.

He wants us to believe he has gone.