It looked to Swan very much like a muddling of the Sawtooth affairs through over-anxiety to avoid trouble.

They were afraid of what Lorraine knew.

They wanted to eliminate her, and they had made the blunder of working independently to that end.
Lone's anxiety he did not even consider.

He believed that Lone would be equal to any immediate emergency and would do whatever the circumstances seemed to require of him.

Warfield counted him a Sawtooth man.