"Why, Kane! that man--" She shuddered and covered her face with her hands.
"I reckon that's all!" said Lawler.

There was a cold, bitter grin on his lips as he stepped around the table and stood in front of Warden.
"Warden, I'm going back to town with you.

We're going right now.

Go out and get on your horse!" Lawler's voice, the cold flame in his eyes and his icy deliberation, told Ruth of a thing that, plainly, Warden had already seen--that though both men would begin the ride to "town," only Lawler would reach there.
Ruth watched, fascinated, her senses dulled by what she saw in Lawler's manner and in the ghastly white of Warden's face.

Warden understood.