Chapter 15
DESERT NIGHTTHE gray stallion, finding the rein loose on his neck, trotted
forward and overtook the dog, and thereafter followed at his heels.
With the setting of the sun a slight breeze stirred, and freshened
as twilight fell, rolling away the sultry atmosphere. Then the
black desert night mantled the plain.
For a while this blackness soothed the pain of Hare's
sun-blinded eyes. It was a relief to have the unattainable horizon
line blotted out. But by-and-by the opaque gloom brought home to
him, as the day had never done, the reality of his solitude. He was
alone in this immense place of barrenness, and his dumb companions
were the world to him. Wolf pattered onward, a silent guide; and
Silvermane followed, never lagging, sure-footed in the dark,
faithful to his ma
