That's Lacy's idea--to starve us out." "They seem quiet enough." "There won't be any more fightin' unless we try to get away, I reckon.
They know we are armed and can shoot.

You better keep down, though, Jim, for they're sure a watchin' us all right, an' all Lacy cares about is to put you out o' the way.

He'd just as soon do it with a bullet as a rope.

Go on with your story." Westcott told it simply, but in full detail, beginning with the discovery of ore in his mine, and including his telegram to Fred Cavendish; the discovery of what was supposed to be the dead body of the latter in the Waldron Apartments, New York; the investigations into the mystery of his death by Willis and Miss Donovan, and the despatching of Miss Donovan to Haskell to intercept Enright's party; the arrival of the latter and the events, so far as he understood them, leading up to the forcible abduction of the girl.
The marshal listened quietly to the narrative, the quick action of his jaws alone evidencing his interest, although he occasionally interposed a question.

Except for Westcott's voice there was no sound, beyond the lapping of water against the rock, and no figures of men became visible along either bank.