The schoolhouse is your deadline--the same as this cabin.

Whenever you step into one or the other, your friends are going to mourn for you.

Get going!" It was a long time before Lawler moved.

And when he did re-enter the cabin Ruth was nowhere to be seen.
Lawler paused near the center of the big room and gazed about him.

The door leading to one of the rooms that ran from the big room was open.
The other was closed.