He felt momentarily depressed by a sense of friendlessness.

It was like reverting to primordial conditions, wherein it was ordained that each life, alone and unassisted, should protect and save itself.

He wondered if primitive man, or if even wild animals, did not always walk with that vague consciousness of continual menace, where lupine viciousness seemed eternally at war with vulpine wariness.
"Then what would you suggest ?" he asked the woman, who sat before him rapt in thought.
"That we watch Keenan, continuously, night and day.

He has been hunted and followed now for over two months, and he is only waiting for a clear field to take to his heels.

And when he goes he is going for America.
That I know.