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Kathlyn had to go down to the very bottooat path, no matter where it wound, for this ultimately

would lead her to the rest house As she started up the final incline,

through the cedars and pines, she heard the bark of the wolf, the red

ho hunted in packs of twenty or thirty, in reality far er or a panther, since no hunter could kill a whole

pack

To this wolf, when hunting his kill, the tiger gave wide berth; the

bear took to his cave, and all fleet-footed things of the jungles fled

in panic

Kathlyn climbed as rapidly as she could She dared not o on The bark, or yelp,

had been a signal; but now there ca howl She

had heard it often in the great forests at home It was the call of

the pack that there was to be a kill Sherend the dead, but theon upward, catching a sapling here, a li Once she turned and fired a chance

shot in the direction of the howling Far away came the roar of one of

the mountain lions; and the pack of red wolves becaood use of this interval But

presently the pack raised its howl again, and she knew that the griin

She reached the door of the rest house just as the pack, a large one,