There was light in the east, heralding a dawn that Kurt surely would welcome.

He sat down to wait, and addressed to his bewildered judgment a query as to whether or not he ought to keep on carrying the burdensome rifle.

It was not only heavy, but when daylight came it might attract attention, and his bulging coat would certainly invite curiosity.

He was in a predicament; nevertheless, he decided to hang on to the rifle.
He almost fell asleep, waiting there with his back against a fence-post.
The dawn came, and then the rosy sunrise.

And he discovered, not half a mile away, a good-sized town, where he believed he surely could hire an automobile.
Waiting grew to be so tedious that he decided to risk the early hour, and proceeded toward the town.