drag them to the sled in the curve of the creek."

Sipsu shook her head in dissent; but her eyes glistened with gladness,
and she was proud that this man had shown toward her such favor. But
she, like the women of all her race, was born to obey the will masculine,
and when Hitchcock repeated "Go!" he did it with authority, and though
she made no answer he knew that his will was law.

"And never mind harness for the dogs," he added, preparing to go. "I
shall wait. But waste no time. The day chaseth the night alway, nor
does it linger for man's pleasure."

Half an hour later, stamping his feet and swinging his arms by the sled,
he saw her coming, a surly dog in either hand. At the approach of these
his own animals waxed truculent, and he favored them with the butt of his
whip till they quieted. He had approached the camp up the wind, and
sound was the thing to be most feared in making his presence known.

"Put them into the sled," he ordered when she had got the harness on the
two dogs. "I want my leaders to the fore."

But when she had done this, the displaced animals pitched upon the
aliens. Though Hitchcock plunged among them with clubbed rifle, a riot
of sound went up and across the sleeping camp.

"Now we shall have dogs, and in plenty," he remarked grimly, slipping an
axe from the sled lashings. "Do thou harness whichever I fling thee, and
betweenwhiles protect the team."

He stepped a space in advance and waited between two pines. The dogs of