On the first rise he stopped and looked back at the light which shone out from among the dripping cottonwoods.
He turned toward where the light had shone among the cottonwoods below; there was nothing but a great blot of shade that told him nothing.
From where they were camped upon a ridge which bounded a broad coulee on the east, he could look down upon the Stevens ranch nestling in the bottomland, the house half hidden among the cottonwoods.