176 TWO DIANAS IN ALASKA 



at tossing, and that therefore the first beast was 

 already as good as Cecily's. Nor was she wrong in 

 this, for Cecily won the toss, and it was in vain that 

 we tried to point out that at last she had actually won 

 something, because the next shot was hers by all 

 ruling of the gods of chance. 



She returned, unlike Niobe, all smiling, from the 

 sea, triumphant in the result of a well-planned stalk, 

 since with the first shot she bagged another fine 

 walrus, and according to our compact Cecily, who had 

 accompanied her throughout the long and arduous 

 crawling process, had been obliged to come back with- 

 out firing a shot. What force of will-power it re- 

 quired on her part to refrain from firing at another 

 beast, as the whole herd dashed into the water, she 

 alone can tell, but it is on record in our memory to 

 her everlasting credit that she did so. 



