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She followed, and we met as Metoosin and I were returning. We did not go back to the Château. We turned about and followed your trail, to seek our daughter. And now...." Out of the shadow of the trees there broke upon them suddenly the anxious voice of the woman. "Napao! where are you?" "Dear God, it is the old, sweet name she called me so many years ago," whispered Michael O'Doone. "She is awake.
"In the face of reason they are powerless. See, there comes Metoosin with the frozen fish! What if he were a stranger and the fish were poisoned?" "I understand," he replied. "But others drive them besides you?" "Only those very near to the family. Twenty of them are used in the traces. The others are my companions my bodyguard, I call them."
He was delighted when Metoosin came to the door and told him that breakfast would be ready in half an hour. This gave him just time to shave. He expected to eat alone with Adare again this morning, and his heart jumped with both surprise and joy when Josephine came out into the hall to meet him. She was very pale. Her eyes told him that she had passed a sleepless night.
In a box were a dozen linen handkerchiefs and a number of ties for the blue-gray soft shirts Josephine had chosen for him. He was not much ahead of Metoosin, who came in a few minutes later and clipped his hair. When this was done and he had clad himself in his new raiment he looked at himself in the mirror. Josephine had shown splendid judgment. Everything fitted him.
The dogs were coming up the valley. Something had turned Bruce and Metoosin northward instead of into the south. And the pack was giving tongue that fierce, heated baying which told him they were again on the fresh spoor of game. A sudden thrill shot through him.
"We'll lay here for a few days an' not move. Then we'll start Metoosin through the valley over there with the dogs, if there's any left, and we'll start south through this valley at the same time. One of us will keep to the slopes an' the other to the bottom, an' we'll travel slow. Get the idee? "That grizzly won't leave his country, an' Metoosin is pretty near bound to drive him around to us.
It was almost dark when they approached a clump of balsams red with the glow of a fire. It was Muskwa's first fire. Also he saw his first horses, terrific looking monsters even larger than Thor. A third man Metoosin, the Indian came out to meet the hunters, and into this creature's hands Muskwa found himself transferred.
He made no effort to run away, and he soon discovered that Bruce and Metoosin were also his friends. But Langdon was the only one he would follow. On the morning of the eighth day after their pursuit of Thor, Bruce and Metoosin rode over into the eastward valley with the dogs.
They were over at Metoosin's, sixty miles to the west of the Château, when Metoosin returned to his shack with supplies from a Post.
Bruce and Metoosin were so tired after their hard climb over the range that they went to bed early, and Langdon followed them, leaving Pipoonaskoos where Bruce had first thrown him. Scarcely a move had Muskwa made after the discovery that had set his heart beating a little faster.
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