"If for no other reason, they'll do it jest to make me trouble.

I ought to be back thar in the East, teachin' school or makin' laws fur somebody." Paul's eyes wandered from Sol to his comrade, and he saw Henry suddenly move, ever so little, then fix his gaze on a point in the forest, three or four hundred yards away.

Paul looked, too, and saw nothing, but he knew well enough that Henry's keener gaze had detected an alien presence in the bushes.
Henry whispered something to Ross, who followed his glance and then nodded in assent.

The others, too, soon looked at the same point, Jim Hart craning his long neck until it arched like a bow.

Presently from a dense clump of bushes came a little puff of white smoke, and then the stillness was broken by the report of a rifle.