Just what form their objection would take, Brit did not know.

Deep in his intrepid soul he hoped that the Sawtooth would at last show its hand openly.

He had liked Fred Thurman, and what Lorraine had told him went much deeper than she knew.

He wanted to bring them into the open where he could fight with some show of winning.
"I'll git Bill Warfield yet--and git him right," was the gist of his musings.

"He's bound to show his head, give him time enough.