V. 



ON THE MARCH 



HE next morning we 

 were to start at ten. 

 Everybody had been up 

 since daybreak, trying 

 to reduce order from 

 the chaotic scene in 

 front of the lodge. 



It was already eleven o'clock. 

 Sixteen laden animals were tied to 

 every convenient post, tree or 

 stump, saddle horses with reins 

 trailing the Western horse is taught 

 to stand when the reins are on the 

 ground pawed and fidgeted. There 

 was a certain glum feeling in the 

 air caused by Lusk, who secretly 



