3^ FOLLOWiNG 
'^THE DEER 
gone; he had dropped them months 
before ; but the mighty shoulders and 
sinewy neck and perfect head showed 
how well, how grandly he had de- 
served my hunting. 
He threw up his head as 1 burst 
out upon him from an utterly unex- 
pected quarter, the very thing that I 
had so often tried to do, in vain, in 
the old glorious days. " Hast thou 
found me, O mine enemy ? Well, 
here am 1." That is what his eyes, 
great, sad, accusing eyes, were saying 
as he laid his head down on the snow 
again, quiet as an Indian at the tor- 
ture, too proud to struggle where 
nothing was to be gained but pity 
or derision. 
