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Updated: May 13, 2025
And ahead of us, in the jungle-thick hemlock that crowded the sides of the narrow road I had corduroyed through the swamp for a ricketty mile, a single wolf howled. It had a different, curious note, a dying note, if I had known it; but I did not realize it then. I thought, "We're done! They've headed us!" I said, "Look out ahead for all you're worth.
Only what knocked me was that there was no sign of a wolf either before or beside us on the narrow, black-dark highway, and that she was shooting into the jungle-thick swamp hemlocks on each side of it at the breast height of a man! And at a single ghastly, smothered cry I burst out, "By gad, it is men!" For I knew she had shot one.
If the pole held to get us down the other side of the long hill there was nothing before us but a mile of corduroy road through a jungle-thick swamp of hemlock, and then the one bit of really excellent going my road could boast, three clear miles, level as a die, straight to the Halfway stables. "We haven't far now," said I shortly. "And it doesn't matter why you came; you've been useful enough!
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