Yogi Johnson has a period during which he anguishes over the fact that he doesn't seem to desire any woman at all, even though spring is approaching, "which turns a young man's fancy to love." At last, he falls in love with an aboriginal American woman who enters a restaurant clothed only in moccasins, the wife of one of the two aboriginal Americans he befriends near the end of the story, in the penultimate chapter. Johnson is cured of his impotence when, viewing the naked squaw, he is overcome by "a new feeling" which he hastens to attribute to Mother Nature, and together they "light out for the territories."