MAN AGAINST MAN There were more than two thousand souls in the great caravan which reached over miles of springy turf and fat creek lands.

There were more than a thousand children, more than a hundred babes in arm, more than fifty marriageable maids pursued by avid swains.

There were bold souls and weak, strong teams and weak, heavy loads and light loads, neighbor groups and coteries of kindred blood or kindred spirits.
The rank and file had reasons enough for shifting.

There were a score of Helens driving wagons--reasons in plenty for the futility of all attempts to enforce an arbitrary rule of march.

Human equations, human elements would shake themselves down into place, willy-nilly.