Why had Joanne not confided more fully in him?
What was the deeper significance of this visit to the grave, and of her mission in the mountains?
Down the narrow Indian trail they passed into the thick spruce timber.

Half an hour later they came out into the grassy creek bottom of the valley.
During that time Joanne did not look behind her, and John Aldous did not speak.

MacDonald turned north, and the sandstone mountain was straight ahead of them.

It was not like the other mountains.

There was something sinister and sullen about it.