world, past, present or future, mattered, excepting that she understand this, even though she never were to see him again, even though she should never forgive him; yet only that she might know and understand. Over and over and in and out his thoughts wove and tangled with his love and his sorrow and his unrest and his longing; but from the other side of the blank curtain there came no sound; and at last, worn out with the depths of his revulsion from the anticipations of his return along the trail, to the unbelievable emptiness of the present reality, he flung himself upon a couch and fell into a heavy and exhausted sleep.
