[God’s Country--And the Woman by James Oliver Curwood]@TWC D-Link bookGod’s Country--And the Woman CHAPTER NINETEEN 49/52
We may need your help.
I would have asked Metoosin, but it would have made him suspicious of something--and he knows nothing. You have made friends with the dogs? You know Captain ?" "Yes!" "Then go to them--go as fast as you can, M'sieur.
And if you hear a shot to-night--or a loud cry from out there in the forest, free the dogs swiftly, Captain first, and run with them to our trail, shouting 'KILL! KILL! KILL!' with every breath you take, and don't stop so long as there is a footprint in the snow ahead of you or a human bone to pick! Do you understand, M'sieur ?" His eyes were points of flame in the gloom. "Do you understand ?" "Yes," gasped Philip.
"But--Jean--" "If you understand--that is all," interrupted Jean, "If there is a peril in what we are doing this night the pack will be worth more to us than a dozen men.
If anything happens to us they will be our avengers. Go! There is not one moment for you to lose.
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