If he could skillfully commit Spain to a quarrel with the settlers much might be done for the cause in which his heart was enlisted.

He foresaw the truth of Paul's warning that in a little while nothing could uproot the settlers in Kentucky.

A blow at them, if it would destroy, must fall quickly, and he meant that the blow should be given.
His anxiety weighed heavily upon him and the wilderness at night grew more uncanny.

Sleep refused to come.

The coals sank lower.