Cullen stands down and lets some of his men join the search party. As the rest of his crew head off to their work, he calls them back. "I'm looking for a man named Harper. Frank Harper. It's a friend of Johnson's," he says. "I got something for him." Everybody remains silent, possibly because they believe their new boss to be a murderer. Finally, Mr. Toole says Harper's out with the logging crew, some 15 or 20 miles west. Cullen immediately heads for his horse, like it's not going to look at all suspicious when Harper turns up dead right after he was asking about him. Or maybe he doesn't care. Maybe he figures once he's finished killing off everyone on his vengeance list, he'll be ready for a hanging. "Is that a bullet?" Elam calls after him, within earshot of several of the other men. Cullen plays dumb, so Elam elaborates: "What you 'got' for Sergeant Harper." Cullen ignores the question and tells Elam to get to work. As Cullen rides off, Elam gives him a strange smile. Maybe he's thinking of all the ways Cullen's going to screw himself over and it makes him happy.