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Meanwhile the chair, the table, and the boxes were quickly consumed, and the fire threatened to die down, leaving them in partial obscurity an alarming prospect. The only other movable was the bed. "What'll we do?" said Joe nervously. "We can't break it up without the axe, and that's outside." Husky's eye, vainly searching the cabin, was caught by the sleeping figure in the corner.
Sam sought in vain to reassure Husky. "I won't let her touch me!" the injured man cried. "She's a witch!" "Let be," she said to Sam, shrugging. "I tell you w'at to do." Under her direction Sam cut away his own rude bandage from Husky's shoulder and washed the wound. The bullet had gone cleanly through. Meanwhile Bela was macerating some leaves she had brought.
Speaks English, too. Understood every word!" None of Husky's mates had any skill in surgery. Like men in the flush of their strength, they refused to harbour the thought of injury or disease, and had come to the wilderness ill provided. Jack, lacking antiseptics or healing medicaments, bound up the shoulder roughly. They laid Husky on the bed and endeavoured to forget him.
His fangs had sunk deep in the husky's shoulder, and the husky's long teeth met through the hide and flesh of his neck. An inch deeper, and they would have pierced his jugular. Kazan knew this, as he crunched his enemy's shoulder-bone, and every instant even in their fiercest struggling he was guarding against a second and more successful lunge of those powerful jaws.
A light of malevolent joy gleamed in the big husky's red eyes as he plunged upon the terrier. One thrust of his mighty shoulder sent the little chap spinning on his back, and there was the throat-hold exposed to Sourdough's practised fangs. His bitter temper had been carefully inflamed in advance, and demanded now the sacrifice of blood, warm life-blood.
Before she had moved, Philip went straight up to the yellow creature that she had told him was a quarter wolf. "Hero," he spoke softly. "Hero " He held out his hands. The giant husky's eyes burned a deeper glow; for an instant his upper lip drew back, baring his stiletto-like fangs, and the hair along his neck and back stood up like a brush.
There was a great beating and shaking of clothes, and a combined cleaning of the shack. Sam made a broom out of willow branches; Jack cut some poles, out of which he designed to make a chair after supper. "She's got to have something to sit in when she's watching beside Husky's bed like," he said. It did not occur to him that Bela had probably never in her life before sat in a chair.
"If you follow me, I not come back," she announced. "No offence," said Jack hastily. "But it's darned funny. I leave it to you. Your coming and going like this. How did you get out last night?" "I not tell you," she said again. "'Tain't no wonder Husky's a bit leary of you. We all think " "What you think?" she asked mockingly. "Well, we think it's funny," Jack repeated lamely.
Meanwhile Shand threw seven, and Joe rejoiced again. But when Husky, opposite him, got a beggarly three, the young man's triumph was outrageous. The evening had left an unsettled score between these two. "You're done for, lobster!" he cried with intolerable laughter. "Take your blankets and go outside!" A vein on Husky's forehead swelled.
It had an electrical effect on the four men. Each made believe he had heard nothing. Big Jack and Shand stared self-consciously into the fire. Husky's hands holding the cards shook, and his face changed colour. Joe lifted a livid white face, and his eyes rolled wildly. He clutched the blankets and bit his lip to keep from crying out.
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