ear-strain

Updated: May 5, 2025

Yet again came that strange change in the tensity of Gale's ear-strain, a check, a break, a vibration and this time the sound did not go nameless. It might have been moan of wind or wail of far-distant wolf, but Gale imagined it was the strangling death-cry of another guard, or that strange, involuntary utterance of the Yaqui.

Zane Grey - Desert Gold