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 hungry," said Maku with pride.

"They are of an age," said She Wolf. "It may be that one day—"

And so talking and gossipping pleasantly, as women will, even when anxious, they waded across the brook and followed the broad trail of No Man and Strong Hand.

But when the trail ended they found nothing but bones, and not the whole of a skeleton at that, for the wolves snarling, had carried away many of the lesser bones.