[The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey]@TWC D-Link bookThe Spirit of the Border CHAPTER XXI 19/20
You'll feel better to-morrow.
The situation is not, perhaps, so hopeless.
The presence of these frontiersmen should encourage us." "What will they do? What can they do ?" cried Heckewelder, bitterly. "I tell you never before have I encountered such gloomy, stony Indians.
It seems to me that they are in no vacillating state.
They act like men whose course is already decided upon, and who are only waiting." "For what ?" asked Jim, after a long silence. "God only knows! Perhaps for a time; possibly for a final decision, and, it may be, for a reason, the very thought of which makes me faint." "Tell us," said Edwards, speaking quietly, for he had ever been the calmest of the missionaries. "Never mind.
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