An' what don't happen there may happen along the trail.

Keep a rifle-shot behind with Joanne.

If there's unexpected shooting, we want what you might call a reserve force in the rear.

I figger I can see danger, if there is any, an' I can do it best alone." Aldous knew that in these last hours Donald MacDonald's judgment must be final, and he made no objection to an arrangement which seemed to place the old hunter under a more hazardous risk than his own.

And he realized fully that these were the last hours.