He would gladly have waited and rested where he was but he knew that men do not give up easily.

What one fails to do a herd comes to perform.

Moreover, men struck by surprise, men stalked with infinite cunning; the moment when he felt most secure in his stall and ate with his head down, blinded by the manger, was the very moment which the Mexican had often chosen to play some cruel prank.

The lip of Alcatraz twitched back from his teeth as he remembered.

This lesson was written into his mind with the letters of pain: in the moment of greatest peace, beware of man! That day he journeyed towards the mountains; that night he chose the tallest hill he could find and rested there, trusting to the wide prospect to give him warning; and no matter how soundly he slept the horrid odor of man approaching would bring him to his feet.