His hair was grayer.

Now that the blaze and glow of the fight had passed he showed a subtle change, a fixed and morbid sadness, a resignation to a fate he had accepted.
The ordinary routine of ranch life did not return for the Isbels.
Blaisdell returned home to settle matters there, so that he could devote all his time to this feud.

Gaston Isbel sat down to wait for the members of his clan.
The male members of the family kept guard in turn over the ranch that night.

And another day dawned.

It brought word from Blaisdell that Blue, Fredericks, Gordon, and Colmor were all at his house, on the way to join the Isbels.