" He drew a match along the back of his chair, and
lighted his pipe.
"I reckon we'd better go and look after those boys of yours," he
suggested, moving toward the door rather quickly, for all his
apparent deliberation. "They're inclined to be hot-headed, and
we must have no violence, above all things. Keep it a civil
matter right through. Much easier to handle in court, if there's
no violence to complicate the case."
"They're looking for it," Phoebe reminded him bluntly. "The man
had a gun, and threw down on Vadnie."
"He only pointed it at me, auntie," Evadna corrected, ignorant of
the Western phrase.
The two women followed the men outside and into the shady yard,
where the trees hid completely what lay across the road and
beyond the double row of poplars. Donny, leaning far forward and
digging his bare toes into the loose soil for more speed, raced
on ahead, anxious to see and hear all that took place.
"If the boys don't stir up a lot of antagonism," Baumberger kept
urging Peaceful and Phoebe, as they hurried into the garden, "the
matter ought to be settled without much trouble.
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