Warn her for me.

She must not go alone in the forests--not even to the dog pit." "I understand," said Philip.
They entered the house.

Twenty minutes later, from the window of his room, Philip saw a dark figure walking swiftly back toward the forest.
Still later he heard the distant wail of a husky coming from the direction of the pit, and he knew that the first gun in the big fight had been fired--that Jean Jacques Croisset was off on his thrilling mission into the depths of the forests.

What that mission was he had not asked him.

But he had guessed.