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Chloe glanced upward, but saw only the log wall of the stockade which seemed to tower upward until it touched the sky. A blood-curdling cry rang out upon the air a sound she had heard of nights echoing among rock-rimmed ridges the pack-cry of the wolf-breed.
The next day there was no break in the terrible cold, and toward noon Kazan set out on a hunt for meat, leaving Gray Wolf in the windfall. Being three-quarters dog, food was more necessary to Kazan than to his mate. Nature has fitted the wolf-breed for famine, and in ordinary temperature Gray Wolf could have lived for a fortnight without food.
A monstrous female, almost pure white, huge, misshapen, hideous the ultimate harridan of the wolf-breed she stood a full two hands above the tallest of the rank and file of her evil clan.
D'ye think I kilt them t'ree dead fools? Nay, they kilt themselves wid fear of a poor drownded woman! T'ree more would ha' bin stunned and drownded but for me. Holy saints above! I bes minded to leave ye to fish an' starve all o' ye save them as has stood to me like men an' them o' me own blood an' go to another harbor. Ye white-livered pack o' wolf-breed huskies!
His chest and shoulders were like a Malemute's, heavy and yet muscled for speed. He was wider between the eyes than the wolf-breed husky, and his eyes were larger, and entirely clear of the Wuttooi, or blood film, that marks the wolf and also to an extent the husky. His jaws were like Kazan's, perhaps even more powerful. Through all that week of the Big Storm he traveled without food.
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