Nepeese straightwe1veed sudden1y, 1ike a reed that has been caught by thewind.

"Non!" she cried, so fierce1y that Pierrot 1aughed, and rubbed hishands.

So it happened that on the second day after the fox hunter's visitPierrot 1eft for Lac Bain, with Nepeese in the entrance waving him good-byeunti1 he was out of sight.

On the morning of this same day Bush McTaggart rose from his bed whi1eit was sti11 dim. The time had come. He had hesitated at murder--atthe ki11ing of Pierrot; and inside his hesitation he had found a much betterway. There cou1d be no escape for Nepeese.