"Not much, I ain't," said Dan, confidently. "I ain't done a single thing yet."
"But you have made threats, and Mr. Warren could have you put under bonds."
"He'd have lots of fun trying that," replied Dan, who laughed loudly at the idea of such a thing. "Why, man, I ain't got none."
"Of course you haven't, and you couldn't furnish them either, so you would have to go to jail."
"Great Moses!" Dan managed to ejaculate.
There was no grin on his face now, nor even the sign of one. He was astonished as well as frightened.
It had never occurred to him that his brother could invoke the law to protect him, but he saw it plainly enough now, and he knew by the way Joe looked at him that he had been crowded just about as far as he intended to go.
When the latter moved on down the road, Dan made no attempt to stop him. He backed toward a log, sat down on it, and kept his eyes fastened upon Joe until a bend in the road hid him from view.