He occupied half of Calumet's bed.

Since the day following the clash with Dade, Calumet had insisted on this.
"Just to show you that what you said ain't botherin' me a heap," he had told Dade.

"You're still yearlin' and need some one to keep an eye on you, so's some careless son of a gun won't herd-ride you." That Dade accepted this in the spirit in which it was spoken made it possible for them to bunk together in amity.

If Dade had "sized up" Calumet, the latter had made no mistake in Dade.
Dade snuffed out the candle and followed Malcolm out.

The latter went immediately to the ranchhouse, but Dade lingered until Calumet stepped down from the door of the bunkhouse.
"Bed suits me," suggested Dade.