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The trapper loitered about the place, declining to share the straw of
the emigrant, until the whole arrangement was completed; and then,
without the ceremony of an adieu, he slowly retired from the spot.
It was now in the first watch of the night; and the pale, quivering,
and deceptive light, from a new moon, was playing over the endless
waves of the prairie, tipping the swells with gleams of brightness,
and leaving the interval land in deep shadow. Accustomed to scenes of
solitude like the present, the old man, as he left the encampment,
proceeded alone into the waste, like a bold vessel leaving its haven
to enter on the trackless field of the ocean. He appeared to move for
some time without object, or, indeed, without any apparent
consciousness, whither his limbs were carrying him. At length, on
reaching the rise of one of the undulations, he came to a stand; and,
for the first time since leaving the band, who had caused such a flood
of reflections and recollections to crowd upon his mind, the old man
became aware of his present situation.


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