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himself, answered and bade defiance to all the world. 

 The whole herd soon caught sight of the cavalcade, 

 but being a good way off and well above it, they 

 showed no signs of alarm, but walking slowly forwards 

 soon disappeared in the pine forest. W. M. went after 

 these wapiti, but was not fortunate enough again to 

 catch sight of them. He could not follow them be- 

 cause of the wind, and so had tried to get in front of 

 and head them off. He must have just missed them, 

 however, in the thick timber, and it was then too 

 late to repeat the experiment. I, too, could only just 

 have missed seeing this herd of wapiti on my way 

 home, and must certainly have been within two 

 hundred yards of them, but in the dense forest we 

 were mutually unconscious of one another's proximity. 

 That evening we discussed the chances of coming 

 up with the wapiti and getting a shot at the big bull 

 on the morrow. Graham did not think that the fact 

 of their having seen the pack horses would cause them 

 to travel far, but he feared they might have winded 

 either W. M. or myself when we were close to them, 

 in which case his opinion was that they would travel 

 so far during the night that it would be impossible to 

 overtake them. We then had to decide who was to 

 follow them. W. M., who is the most unselfish fellow 

 in the world, insisted that I should do so, and refused 

 to toss up about it, urging that as he had killed two 

 wapiti and I only one, it was I who ought to take this 

 chance, if chance there was. Finally it was decided 



