Latest / Gold Hunters / 09 - Gold Hunters by James Oliver Curwood
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Chapter nine up the Ombabika. For a few moments after
- 0:07Speaker 1: Mukoki's remarkable discovery, the three stood speechless. Wabiguan stared as
- 0:13Speaker 1: if he could not bring himself to believe the evidence
- 0:15Speaker 1: of his eyes. Rod was quivering with the old thrilling
- 0:19Speaker 1: excitement that had first come to him in the cabin
- 0:22Speaker 1: where they had found the skeletons and the buckskin bag
- 0:25Speaker 1: with its precious nuggets, and Mukoki's face was a study.
- 0:30Speaker 1: The thin, long fingers which held the two pieces of
- 0:33Speaker 1: the gold bullet trembled, which was an unusual symptom in
- 0:36Speaker 1: the old pathfinder. It was he who broke the silence,
- 0:40Speaker 1: and his words gave utterance to the question which had
- 0:43Speaker 1: rushed into the heads of the two young hunters, who
- 0:47Speaker 1: shoot gold bullets at Baar? And to this question there
- 0:51Speaker 1: was for the time absolutely no answer to tell who
- 0:55Speaker 1: shot that bullet? Was impossible? But why was it used?
- 1:01Speaker 1: Wabigouan had taken the parts of the yellow ball and
- 1:04Speaker 1: was weighing them in the palm of his hand. It
- 1:07Speaker 1: weighs an ounce, he declared, twenty dollars worth of gold.
- 1:13Speaker 1: Gasped Rod, as if he lacked breath to express himself,
- 1:18Speaker 1: Who in the wide world is shooting twenty dollar bullets
- 1:21Speaker 1: at baar? He cried more excitedly, repeating Mukoki's question of
- 1:25Speaker 1: a minute before, he too, weighed the yellow pellets in
- 1:29Speaker 1: his hand. The puzzled look had gone out of Mukoki's
- 1:33Speaker 1: face again. The battle scarred old warrior wore the stoic
- 1:37Speaker 1: mask of his race, which only now and then is
- 1:40Speaker 1: lifted for an instant by some sudden and unexpected happening.
- 1:45Speaker 1: Behind that face, immobile, almost expressionless, worked a mind alive
- 1:50Speaker 1: to every trick and secret of the vast solitudes. And
- 1:54Speaker 1: even before his young comrades had gained the use of
- 1:56Speaker 1: their tongues, he was in his savage imagination and traveling
- 2:01Speaker 1: swiftly back over the trail of the monster bear to
- 2:04Speaker 1: the gun that had fired the golden bullet. Wabigawan understood
- 2:08Speaker 1: him and watched him eagerly. What do you think of it, Muki?
- 2:15Speaker 1: Man shoot powder and ball? Gun not cartridge, replied Mukoki slowly.
- 2:21Speaker 1: Old gun strange, very strange a muzzle loader, said Wabi.
- 2:31Speaker 1: The Indian nodded, had powder no lead, got hungry used gold.
- 2:39Speaker 1: Eight words had told the story or at least enough
- 2:42Speaker 1: of it to clear away a part of the cloud
- 2:44Speaker 1: of mystery, But the other part still remained. Who had
- 2:48Speaker 1: fired the bullet? And where had the gold come from?
- 2:53Speaker 1: He must have struck it rich, said Wabi. Else would
- 2:56Speaker 1: he have a chunk of gold like that? Where that
- 3:00Speaker 1: come from? More? Much more agreed Mukoki. Shortly, do you suppose?
- 3:07Speaker 1: Began Rod. There was a curious thrill in his voice,
- 3:11Speaker 1: and he paused, as if scarce daring to venture the
- 3:14Speaker 1: rest of what he had meant to say. Do you
- 3:17Speaker 1: suppose somebody has found our gold? Mukoki and Wabiguan stared
- 3:24Speaker 1: at him as if he had suddenly exploded a mine.
- 3:27Speaker 1: Then Wabi turned and looked silently at the old Indian.
- 3:32Speaker 1: Not a word was spoken. Silently Rod drew something from
- 3:36Speaker 1: his pocket, carefully wrapped in a bit of cloth. You remember,
- 3:41Speaker 1: I kept this little nugget from my share in the
- 3:43Speaker 1: buckskin bag, intending to have a scarf pin made of it,
- 3:47Speaker 1: he explained. When I took my course in geology and mineralogy,
- 3:53Speaker 1: I learned that if one had half a dozen specimens
- 3:56Speaker 1: of gold, each from a different mine, the chances were
- 4:00Speaker 1: about ten to one that no two of them would
- 4:02Speaker 1: be exactly alike in coloring. Now he exposed the nugget
- 4:08Speaker 1: and made a fresh cut in it with his knife,
- 4:10Speaker 1: as Mukoki had done with the yellow bullet. Then the
- 4:14Speaker 1: two gleaming surfaces were compared. One glance was sufficient, the
- 4:20Speaker 1: gold was the same. Wabi drew back, uttering something under
- 4:25Speaker 1: his breath, his eyes gleaming darkly. Rod's face had suddenly
- 4:30Speaker 1: turned a shade wider, and Mukoki, not understanding the mysteries
- 4:35Speaker 1: of mineralogy, stared at the youth in mute suspense. Somebody
- 4:40Speaker 1: has found our gold, cried Wabi, almost savagely. We are
- 4:46Speaker 1: not sure, interrupted Rod. We know only that the evidence
- 4:50Speaker 1: is very suspicious. The rock formation throughout this country is
- 4:55Speaker 1: almost identically the same deep trap on top with slate beneath,
- 5:00Speaker 1: and for that reason, it is very possible that gold
- 5:03Speaker 1: found right in this locality would be of exactly the
- 5:06Speaker 1: same appearance as gold found two hundred miles from here.
- 5:10Speaker 1: Only bit suspicious, Rod concluded, man probably dead, consoled Mukoki,
- 5:19Speaker 1: no lead hungry, shoot bear, and no get him. Maybe
- 5:24Speaker 1: starve the poor devil, exclaimed Wabigowan. We've been too selfish
- 5:30Speaker 1: to give a thought to that Rod. Of course he
- 5:33Speaker 1: was hungry, or he wouldn't have used gold for bullets,
- 5:37Speaker 1: and he didn't get this bear by George. I wish
- 5:42Speaker 1: he'd got him, said Rod simply. Somehow Mukoki's words sent
- 5:47Speaker 1: a flush into his face. There came to him suddenly
- 5:51Speaker 1: a mental picture of that possible tragedy in the wilderness,
- 5:55Speaker 1: the starving man, his last hopeless molding of a golden bullet,
- 5:59Speaker 1: the sight of the monster bear, the shot, and after that,
- 6:04Speaker 1: the despair and suffering and slow death of the man
- 6:07Speaker 1: who had fired it. I wish he'd got it, he repeated.
- 6:12Speaker 1: We have plenty of grub. Mukoki was already at work
- 6:17Speaker 1: skinning the bear, and Rod and wabigowan unsheathed their knives
- 6:21Speaker 1: and joined him. Wound about five six months old, said
- 6:27Speaker 1: the Indian shot just before snow, when there wasn't a
- 6:32Speaker 1: berry in the woods for a starving man to eat,
- 6:35Speaker 1: added Wabi. Well, here's hoping he found something. Rod. An
- 6:42Speaker 1: hour later, the three gold seekers returned to their canoe,
- 6:45Speaker 1: laden with the choicest of the bear meat and the
- 6:48Speaker 1: animal's skin, which was immediately stretched between two trees high
- 6:53Speaker 1: up out of the reach of depidating animals. Rod gazed
- 6:57Speaker 1: at it proudly. We'll be sure and get it when
- 7:01Speaker 1: we come back, won't we sure, replied Wabi. It will
- 7:06Speaker 1: be safe as safe as though it were at home,
- 7:12Speaker 1: unless somebody comes along and steals it, added Rod. Wabi
- 7:17Speaker 1: was busy unloading certain necessary articles from the canoe, but
- 7:21Speaker 1: he ceased his work to look at rod steal. He
- 7:25Speaker 1: cried in astonishment. Mukoki too had heard Rod's remark and
- 7:30Speaker 1: was listening. Rod continued, Wabigowan quietly. That is one thing
- 7:36Speaker 1: we don't have up here. Our great, big, glorious North
- 7:41Speaker 1: doesn't know the word thief except when it is applied
- 7:44Speaker 1: to a wa wanga. If a white hunter came along
- 7:48Speaker 1: here tomorrow and found that hide stretched so low that
- 7:51Speaker 1: the animals were getting at it, he would nail it
- 7:54Speaker 1: higher for us. An Indian, if he camped here, would
- 7:58Speaker 1: build his fire so that the spark wouldn't strike it. Rod.
- 8:02Speaker 1: Up here where we don't know civilization, we're honest. But
- 8:08Speaker 1: down in the States, said Rod the Indian steel. The
- 8:13Speaker 1: words slipped from him the next instant. He would have
- 8:16Speaker 1: given anything to have been able to recall them. Mukoki
- 8:20Speaker 1: had grown a little more tense in his attitude. That's
- 8:24Speaker 1: because white men have lived so much among them, white
- 8:27Speaker 1: men who are called civilized, answered the young scion of
- 8:31Speaker 1: Wabinosh House, his eyes growing bright. White blood makes thieves.
- 8:37Speaker 1: Pardon me for saying it, Rod, but it does, at
- 8:40Speaker 1: least among Indians. But our white blood up here is
- 8:44Speaker 1: different from yours. It's the same blood that's in our Indians,
- 8:49Speaker 1: every drop of it, honest, loyal to its friends, and
- 8:52Speaker 1: it runs red and strong with the love of this
- 8:55Speaker 1: great wilderness. There are exceptions, of course, as you have
- 8:59Speaker 1: seen the Wawongas, who are an outlaw race. But we
- 9:03Speaker 1: are honest. And Mukoki there, if he were dying of cold,
- 9:08Speaker 1: wouldn't steal a skin to save himself. An ordinary Indian
- 9:13Speaker 1: might take it if he were dying for want of it,
- 9:16Speaker 1: but not unless he had a gun to leave in
- 9:18Speaker 1: its place. I didn't mean to say what I did,
- 9:22Speaker 1: said Rod. Oh. I wish I were one of you.
- 9:27Speaker 1: I love this big wilderness and everything in it, and
- 9:30Speaker 1: it's glorious to hear you say what you do. You
- 9:34Speaker 1: are one of us, cried Wabi, gripping his hand. That evening,
- 9:40Speaker 1: after they had finished their supper and the three were
- 9:42Speaker 1: gathered about the fire, Wabigawan said, Muki could tell you
- 9:47Speaker 1: one reason why the Indians of the north are honest
- 9:49Speaker 1: if he wanted to rod, but he won't, so I will.
- 9:55Speaker 1: There was once a tribe in the country of Mukoki's forefathers,
- 9:58Speaker 1: along the Makoki, the river which empties into the Albany,
- 10:02Speaker 1: whose men were great thieves, and who stole from one another.
- 10:07Speaker 1: No man's snare was safe from his neighbor. Fights and
- 10:11Speaker 1: killings were of almost daily occurrence, and the chief of
- 10:14Speaker 1: the tribe was the greatest thief of all, and of
- 10:17Speaker 1: course escaped punishment. This chief loved to set his own snares,
- 10:23Speaker 1: and one day he was enraged to find that one
- 10:25Speaker 1: of his tribe had been so bold as to set
- 10:28Speaker 1: a snare within a few inches of his own, and
- 10:31Speaker 1: in the trail of the same animal. He determined on
- 10:35Speaker 1: meeting out a terrible punishment, and waited. While he was waiting,
- 10:40Speaker 1: a rabbit ran into the snare of his rival. Picking
- 10:44Speaker 1: up a stick, he approached to kill the game, when
- 10:47Speaker 1: suddenly there seemed to pass a white mist before his eyes,
- 10:51Speaker 1: and when he looked again, there was no rabbit, but
- 10:54Speaker 1: the most wonderful creature he had ever beheld in the
- 10:57Speaker 1: form of man, and he knew that it was the
- 11:00Speaker 1: Great Spirit, and fell upon his face, and a great
- 11:04Speaker 1: voice came to him, as if rolling from far beyond
- 11:07Speaker 1: the most distant mountains, and it told him that the
- 11:10Speaker 1: forests and streams of the Red Man's heaven were closed
- 11:13Speaker 1: to him and his people, that in the hunting grounds
- 11:16Speaker 1: that came after death, there was no place for thieves.
- 11:21Speaker 1: Go to your people, he said, and tell them this.
- 11:25Speaker 1: Tell them that from this day on moon upon moon,
- 11:28Speaker 1: until the end of time, they must live like brothers,
- 11:32Speaker 1: setting their snares side by side, without war, to escape
- 11:36Speaker 1: the punishment that hovers over them. And the chief told
- 11:40Speaker 1: his people this finished Wabi, and from that hour there
- 11:44Speaker 1: was no more thievery in the land. And because the
- 11:47Speaker 1: Great Spirit came down in the form he did. The
- 11:50Speaker 1: rabbit is the good luck animal of the crees and
- 11:53Speaker 1: chipewayans of the far north, And wherever the snows fall deep,
- 11:58Speaker 1: men set their traps side by side to this day
- 12:01Speaker 1: and do not rob Rod had listened with glowing eyes.
- 12:07Speaker 1: It's glorious, he repeated, It's glorious. If it's true, it
- 12:14Speaker 1: is true, said Wabi. In all this great country between
- 12:18Speaker 1: here and the barren lands where the Muskox lives, there
- 12:22Speaker 1: is not one Indian in a hundred who would steal
- 12:25Speaker 1: another Indian's trap or the game in it. It is
- 12:29Speaker 1: one of the understood laws of the North that every
- 12:32Speaker 1: hunter shall have his trap line or run, and it
- 12:35Speaker 1: is not courtesy for another trapper to encroach upon it.
- 12:39Speaker 1: But if he should, and he should lay a trap
- 12:41Speaker 1: close beside another's, it would not be wrong. For the
- 12:45Speaker 1: law of the great Spirit is greater than the law
- 12:47Speaker 1: of man. Why last winter, even the outlaw Wuangas made
- 12:52Speaker 1: no effort to steal our traps, though they thirsted for
- 12:56Speaker 1: our lives. Mukoki said Rod, rising, I want to shake
- 13:02Speaker 1: hands with you before I go to bed. I'm learning fast.
- 13:07Speaker 1: I wish I were half Indian. The next morning, the
- 13:11Speaker 1: journey up the Ombabika was resumed, and a little more
- 13:14Speaker 1: of anxiety was now mingled with the enthusiasm of the adventurers,
- 13:19Speaker 1: for no one of them could relieve himself of the
- 13:21Speaker 1: possible significance of the gold bullet, the fear that their
- 13:25Speaker 1: treasure had been discovered by another. Wabi regained his confidence. First,
- 13:32Speaker 1: I don't believe it, he exclaimed at last, without questioning.
- 13:37Speaker 1: The others knew to what he referred. I don't believe
- 13:41Speaker 1: that our gold has been found. It is in the
- 13:44Speaker 1: heart of the wildest country on the continent, and surely
- 13:48Speaker 1: if such a rich find had been made, we would
- 13:50Speaker 1: have heard something about it at wabinosh House or Kanagami,
- 13:54Speaker 1: which are the nearest points of supply, or if it
- 13:59Speaker 1: was found the discoverer's dead, added Rod. Yes in the stern,
- 14:07Speaker 1: Mukoki nodded and grunted his conviction dead, he repeated. The
- 14:13Speaker 1: Ombabika had now become narrow and violent against its swift current.
- 14:18Speaker 1: The canoe made but little headway, and at noon Mukoki
- 14:22Speaker 1: announced that the river journey was at an end. For
- 14:26Speaker 1: a few moments, Rod did not recognize where they had landed.
- 14:30Speaker 1: Then he gave a sudden cry of glad surprise. Why
- 14:35Speaker 1: this is where we had supper that night after our
- 14:37Speaker 1: terrible adventure on the river last winter, he exclaimed. From
- 14:43Speaker 1: far off, there came faintly to his ears, a low
- 14:46Speaker 1: rumbling thunder. Listen, that's the river rushing through the break
- 14:51Speaker 1: in the mountain where we walked the edge of the precipice.
- 14:55Speaker 1: Wabi shrugged his shoulders at the memory of that fearful
- 14:59Speaker 1: night and its desperate race to escape from the wu
- 15:01Speaker 1: Wanga country. We've got to do the same thing again,
- 15:05Speaker 1: only this time it will be in daylight. Long portage,
- 15:11Speaker 1: said Mukoki. Six mile carry everything until we reached the
- 15:17Speaker 1: little creek in the plains beyond the mountains where you
- 15:20Speaker 1: shot the caribou, asked Rod. Yes, replied Wabigawan. That little
- 15:28Speaker 1: creek will now be a pretty husky stream, and by
- 15:31Speaker 1: hard work we can paddle up it until we come
- 15:34Speaker 1: within about eight miles of our old camp at the
- 15:36Speaker 1: head of the chasm where we found the skeletons and
- 15:39Speaker 1: the map. And from that point we shall have to
- 15:43Speaker 1: carry our canoe and supplies to the creek and the chasm,
- 15:46Speaker 1: finished Rod. And then hurrah for the gold. Make old
- 15:52Speaker 1: camp on mountain by night, said Mukoki. Wabie broke into
- 15:57Speaker 1: a happy laugh and thumped Rod on the back. Remember
- 16:01Speaker 1: the big lynx you shot, Rod and thought it was
- 16:04Speaker 1: a wu Wanga and had us all frightened out of
- 16:06Speaker 1: our wits, he cried. Rod colored at the memory of
- 16:11Speaker 1: his funny adventure, which was thrilling enough at the time,
- 16:15Speaker 1: and began assisting Mukoki in unloading the canoe. Two hours
- 16:20Speaker 1: were taken for dinner and rest, and then the young
- 16:23Speaker 1: hunters shouldered their canoe, while Mukoki hurried on ahead of
- 16:26Speaker 1: them waited with a half of their supplies. Every step
- 16:31Speaker 1: now brought the thunder of the torrent rushing through the
- 16:34Speaker 1: mountain more clearly to their ears, and they had not
- 16:37Speaker 1: progressed more than a mile when they were compelled to
- 16:40Speaker 1: shout to make each other hear. On their right, the
- 16:44Speaker 1: wall of the mountain closed in rapidly, and as they
- 16:47Speaker 1: stumbled with their burden over a mass of huge boulders,
- 16:51Speaker 1: the two boys saw just ahead of them the narrow
- 16:54Speaker 1: trail at the edge of the precipice at its beginning.
- 16:58Speaker 1: They rested their canoe on one side of them, a
- 17:01Speaker 1: dozen yards away, the face of the mountain rose sheer
- 17:05Speaker 1: above them for a thousand feet. On the other scarce
- 17:08Speaker 1: that distance from where they stood was the roaring chasm,
- 17:13Speaker 1: and ahead of them the mountain wall and the edge
- 17:15Speaker 1: of the precipice came nearer and nearer, until there was
- 17:18Speaker 1: no more than a six foot ledge to walk upon.
- 17:22Speaker 1: Rod's face turned strangely white as he realized for the
- 17:26Speaker 1: first time the terrible chances they had taken on that black,
- 17:30Speaker 1: eventful night of a few months ago. And for a
- 17:33Speaker 1: time Wabi stood silent, his face as hard set as
- 17:37Speaker 1: a rock. Up out of the chasm, there came a
- 17:41Speaker 1: deafening thunder of raging waters, like the hollow explosions of
- 17:45Speaker 1: great guns echoing and re echoing in subterranean caverns. Let's
- 17:50Speaker 1: take a look, shouted Wabi, close up to his companion's ear.
- 17:55Speaker 1: He went to the edge of the precipice, and Rod
- 17:58Speaker 1: forced himself to follow, though there was in him a
- 18:01Speaker 1: powerful inclination to hug close to the mountain wall. For
- 18:05Speaker 1: half a minute he stood fascinated, terror stricken, and yet
- 18:10Speaker 1: in those thirty seconds he saw that which would remain
- 18:13Speaker 1: with him for a lifetime. Five hundred feet below him,
- 18:17Speaker 1: the overrunning floods of spring were caught between the ragged
- 18:21Speaker 1: edges of the two chasm walls, beating themselves in their
- 18:24Speaker 1: fury to the whiteness of milk froth, until it seemed
- 18:28Speaker 1: as though the earth itself must tremble under their mad rush.
- 18:32Speaker 1: Now and then through the twisting foam there shot the
- 18:35Speaker 1: black crests of great rocks, as though huge monsters of
- 18:39Speaker 1: some kind were at play, whipping the torrent into greater fury,
- 18:43Speaker 1: and bellowing forth thunderous voices when they rose triumphant for
- 18:48Speaker 1: an instant above the sweep of the flood. All this
- 18:51Speaker 1: Rod saw in less than a breath, and he drew back,
- 18:55Speaker 1: shivering in every fiber of his body. But Wabigowan did
- 19:00Speaker 1: not move. For several minutes. The Indian youth stood looking
- 19:04Speaker 1: down upon the wonderful force at play below him, his
- 19:07Speaker 1: body as motionless as though hewn out of stone, the
- 19:11Speaker 1: wild blood in his veins leaping in response to the
- 19:14Speaker 1: tumult and thunder of the magnificent spectacle deep down in
- 19:17Speaker 1: the chasm. When he turned to Rod, his lips made
- 19:22Speaker 1: no sound, but his eyes glowed with that half slumbering
- 19:26Speaker 1: fire which came only when the red blood of the
- 19:28Speaker 1: Princess Mother gained descendancy, and the wild in him called
- 19:32Speaker 1: out greeting to the savage. In nature, it is not
- 19:36Speaker 1: music or fine talk or artificial wonders that waken a
- 19:41Speaker 1: thrill deep down in the Indian soul. It is the
- 19:45Speaker 1: great mountain, the vast plain, the Roaring Cataract, and so
- 19:50Speaker 1: it was with Wabigouan. They went on now, with the
- 19:55Speaker 1: canoe upon their shoulders and hugging close to the mountain wall,
- 20:00Speaker 1: slowly avoiding every stone and stick that might cause one
- 20:03Speaker 1: of them to stumble. They passed along the perilously narrow
- 20:06Speaker 1: ledge and did not rest again until they had come
- 20:09Speaker 1: in safety to the broader trail leading up the mountain.
- 20:13Speaker 1: An hour later, Mukoki met them on his return for
- 20:16Speaker 1: the remainder of their supplies. Shortly after this, they reached
- 20:21Speaker 1: the small plateau where they had camped during the previous winter,
- 20:25Speaker 1: and lowered their canoe close to the old balsam shelter.
- 20:29Speaker 1: Everything was as they had left it. Neither snow nor
- 20:33Speaker 1: storm had destroyed their lodging of bows. There were the
- 20:37Speaker 1: charred remains of their fire, the bones of the huge
- 20:40Speaker 1: lynx which Roderick had thought was an attacking wu Wanga
- 20:44Speaker 1: and had killed, And beside the shelter was a stake
- 20:47Speaker 1: driven into the ground, the stake to which they had
- 20:50Speaker 1: fastened their faithful comrade of many an adventure, the tame Wolf.
- 20:56Speaker 1: To this stake went Wabigowan, speaking no word, He sat
- 21:01Speaker 1: down close beside it with his arm resting upon it,
- 21:05Speaker 1: and when he looked up at Rod, there was an
- 21:07Speaker 1: expression in his face which spoke more than words. Poor
- 21:12Speaker 1: old Wolf, Rod turned and walked to the edge of
- 21:16Speaker 1: the plateau, something hot and uncomfortable filling his eyes. Below him,
- 21:22Speaker 1: as far as he could see, there stretched the vast,
- 21:25Speaker 1: mysterious wilderness that reached to Hudson Bay, and somewhere out
- 21:30Speaker 1: there in that limitless space was Wolf. As he looked,
- 21:35Speaker 1: the hot film clouding his vision, he thought of the
- 21:39Speaker 1: old tragedy in Mukoki's life, and of how Wolf had
- 21:42Speaker 1: helped him to avenge himself. In his imagination, he went
- 21:47Speaker 1: back to that terrible day many many years ago, when Mukoki,
- 21:52Speaker 1: happy in the strength of his youth, found his young
- 21:55Speaker 1: wife and child dead upon the trail, killed by wolves.
- 22:00Speaker 1: He thought of the story that Wabi had told him,
- 22:02Speaker 1: of the madness that came to the young warrior, of
- 22:05Speaker 1: how year after year he followed the trail of wolves,
- 22:09Speaker 1: wreaking his vengeance on their breed. And last he thought
- 22:13Speaker 1: of Wolf, how Mukoki and Wabigawan had found the whelp
- 22:17Speaker 1: in one of their traps, how they tamed him, grew
- 22:21Speaker 1: to love him and taught him to decoy other wolves
- 22:24Speaker 1: to their rifles. Wolf had been their comrade of a
- 22:28Speaker 1: few months before, fearless, faithful until at last escaping from
- 22:34Speaker 1: the final murderous assault of the wu wangas he had
- 22:37Speaker 1: fled into the forests while his human friends fought their
- 22:40Speaker 1: way back to civilization. Where was Wolf now? Unconsciously, Rod
- 22:47Speaker 1: questioned himself aloud, and from close behind him, Wabi answered,
- 22:53Speaker 1: with the hunt pack Rod, He's forgotten us, gone back
- 22:57Speaker 1: to the wild Gon back to the wild, yes, said Rod,
- 23:03Speaker 1: but forgotten us No. Wabi made no reply. End of
- 23:11Speaker 1: Chapter nine. Recording by Roger Molin.