The interval between fifteen minutes of twelve and twelve he almost ran.

That quarter of an hour brought him to the crest of the ridge from which he could look upon the buildings of the range.

Nothing had happened that he could see.

He gave a great gasp of relief, and in his joy he laughed.

The strangeness of the laugh told him more than anything else the tension he had been under.
Another half-hour, and he came up out of the dip behind Sokwenna's cabin and tried the door.