And this hut was the one where, three years before, Jennie had nursed him back to life.
The killing of a man named Sellers, and the combination of circumstances that had made the tragedy a memorable regret, had marked, if not a change, at least a cessation in Duane's activities.

He had trailed Sellers to kill him for the supposed abducting of Jennie.

He had trailed him long after he had learned Sellers traveled alone.

Duane wanted absolute assurance of Jennie's death.

Vague rumors, a few words here and there, unauthenticated stories, were all Duane had gathered in years to substantiate his belief--that Jennie died shortly after the beginning of her second captivity.