If only on this wild night, in this dark, lone spot, he might come across Georg Znaeym, man to man, with none to witness – that was the wish that was uppermost in his thoughts. - These lines fro the story tell what Ulrich wishes. The wish does come true when they run into one another and then find themselves trapped together under a fallen tree. While lying there, they solve their feud and promise to be good to one another in the future; however, in the end, they are approached by a wolf pack and the reader assumes that they will die. Had they resolved the feud before all this happened, they would have lived.