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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: regrets. The XIX ranch, owned by a small "nester" named
Henderson, could not be more than five or six miles to the
southeast. If she struck across the hills she would be sure to
run into one of the barblines. At the XIX she could get a horse
and reach the Lazy D by midnight. Without any hesitation she
struck out. It was unfortunate that she did not have on her heavy
laced high boots, but she realized that she must take things as
she found them. Things might have been a good deal worse, she
reflected philosophically.
And before long they were worse, for the increasing darkness
blotted out the landmarks she was using as guides and she was
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