Mebby Quade is with him, an' mebby he ain't.

Anyway, there's a big chance of a bunch behind us with special instructions from Quade to cut our throats and keep Joanne." That day Aldous had been turning a question over in his own mind.

He asked it now.
"Mac, are you sure you can go to the valley of gold without DeBar ?" For a long half minute MacDonald looked at him, and then his voice rumbled in a low, exultant laugh in his beard.
"Johnny," he said, with a strange quiver in his voice, "I can go to it now straighter an' quicker than DeBar! I know why I never found it.

DeBar helped me that much.

The trail is mapped right out in my brain now, Johnny.
Five years ago I was within ten miles of the cavern--an' didn't know it!" "And we can get there ahead of them ?" "We could--if it wasn't for Joanne.