The long journey was at an end.
Daniel raised a peculiar halloo, which brought a horseman hurrying out to meet him.

The brother had not forgotten their boyish signal.

He rode up swiftly and slid from his horse without speaking.
Jake resembled his brother in appearance, but his face was sterner and his eyes keener.

He had been made a bold, determined man by the pressure of harsher circumstances.

He shook his brother by the hand in self-contained fashion.
"Wal, Dan'l, I'm right glad you got h'yer safe.