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Noel stirred uneasily. Somewhere close at 



._ „ hand another huge wolf was waiting; and a 



wholesome fear fell upon him, with a shiver 

 at the thought of how near he had come in 

 his excitement to bringing the whole savage 

 pack snarling about his ears. 



A snort of alarm cut short his thinking. 

 There at the edge of the wood, not twenty 

 feet away, stood a caribou, pointing his ears 

 at the children whom he had almost stumbled 

 over as he ran, thinking only of the wolves 

 behind. The long bow sprang back of itself ; 

 an arrow buzzed like a wasp and buried it- 

 self deep in the white chest. Like a flash a 

 second arrow followed as the stag turned 

 away, and with a jump or two he sank to 

 his knees, as if to rest awhile in the snow. 



But Mooka scarcely saw these things. 

 Her eyes were fastened on the great white 

 wolf which she had claimed for her own 

 when he was a toddling cub. He lay still 

 as a stone under the tip of a bending 

 spruce branch, his eyes following every 

 motion of a young bull caribou which three 

 of the wolves had singled out of the herd 



