The sight of the litter added to the anxiety which Ernest's mother was feeling; but the marquis rode on a short distance ahead to her.
"Do not be alarmed, Julie," he said; "the lad is not very seriously hurt.

He has been torn a bit by a wolf, and has behaved splendidly." "The messenger said he had been hurt by a wolf, Edouard; but how came he to put himself in such peril ?" "He will tell you all about it, my dear.

Here he is to speak for himself." "Do not look so alarmed, mother," Ernest said as she ran down to the side of the litter.

"It is no great harm, and I should not have minded if it had been ten times as bad." "Bring up the wolf," the marquis said, "and Harry, do you come here and stand by Ernest's side.

Madam la marquise," he went on, "do you see that great gray wolf?
That is the demon wolf which has for years been the terror of the district, and these are its slayers.
Your son and M.Sandwith, they, and they alone, have reaped the glory which every sportsman in Burgundy has been so long striving to attain; they alone in the forest, miles away from the hunt, pursued and slew this scourge of the province." He put his horn to his lips.