He knew that something unusual was going to happen and nature was preparing him for it.
The occult quality in the air did not depart with the coming of night, though the winds no longer alternated, the warm blasts ceasing to blow, while the cold came steadily and with increasing fierceness.

Yet it was warm and close in the cave, and the two went outside for air, wandering up the face of the ridge that enclosed the northern side of their particular valley in the chain of little valleys.

Upon the summit they stood erect, and the face of Tayoga became rapt like that of a seer.

When Robert looked at him his own blood tingled.

The Onondaga shut his eyes, and he spoke not so much to Robert as to the air itself: "O Tododaho," he said, "when mine eyes are open I do not see you because of the vast clouds that Manitou has heaped between, but when I close them the inner light makes me behold you sitting upon your star and looking down with kindness upon this, the humblest and least of your servants.