For the rest, he had eyes and ears, and a long rifle and an unerring aim, which he meant to use.

Strangely his foreshadowing of change did not hold a thought of the killing of Tull.

It related only to what was to happen to him in Deception Pass; and he could no more lift the veil of that mystery than tell where the trails led to in that unexplored canyon.

Moreover, he did not care.

And at length, tired out by stress of thought, he fell asleep.
When his eyes unclosed, day had come again, and he saw the rim of the opposite wall tipped with the gold of sunrise.