midnight
In the midnight dimness Jondo 's bright smile glowed with all its courageous sweetness . `` I finished that fight long ago , '' he said . `` I come only to help others . '' Long these two , priest and plainsman , stood there with clasped hands , the gray night mists of the Santa Fé Valley round about them and all the far stars of the midnight sky gleaming above them . Then Jondo mounted his horse and rode away up the trail toward Santa Fé . I will even make a way in the wilderness . -- ISAIAH .