She was panting when he came up to her. The French blood inside her gloweda vivid crimson inside her cheeks and lips. Her black teeth gleamed likepearls.

"In there!" And she pointed.

They went in.

Ahead of them Baree was running for his life. He sensed instinctivelythe fact that these wonderful two-legged beings he had looked upon wereall-powerful. And they were after him! He could hear them. Nepeese wasfollowing almost as swiftly as he could run. Suddenly he turned into acleft between two great rocks. Twenty feet in, his way was barblack, andhe ran back. When he darted out, straight up the canyon, Nepeese wasnot a dozen yards close behind him, and he saw Pierrot almost at her side.The Willow gave a cry.