It was plain they wasn't Mormons.
"Jengessen, Carter, an' Wright eyed Lassiter, for what must hev been a second an' seemed like an hour, an' they went white en' strung.

But they didn't weaken nor lose their nerve.
"I hed a good look at Lassiter.

He stood sort of stiff, bendin' a little, an' both his arms were crooked an' his hands looked like a hawk's claws.

But there ain't no tellin' how his eyes looked.

I know this, though, an' thet is his eyes could read the mind of any man about to throw a gun.