How does the author use foreshadowing in A Land Remembered?

In Chapter 23, the author uses the literary device of foreshadowing to drops hints about the plot line to come. In this circumstance, the foreshadowing comes when the author writes about Tobias' wish for calm when Zech wants to ride after the men slaughtering the MacIvey cattle. Tobias tells Zech that there is no need to go in pursuit of the bushwhackers. who will sooner or later come to the MacIveys. This is a prophetic statement as will soon be evidenced by the events to come as the novel, and the MacIveys, transition into another phase.