In the traces were Captain and five of his team-mates.
"Isn't the pack going with us ?" asked Philip.
"I never take them when there is very bad sickness, like this," explained Josephine.

"There is something about the nearness of death that makes them howl.

I haven't been able to train that out of them." Philip was disappointed, but he said nothing more.

He tucked Josephine among the furs, cracked the long whip Metoosin had given him, and they were off, with Miriam and her husband waving their hands from the door of Adare House.

They had scarcely passed out of view in the forest when with a sudden sharp command Josephine stopped the dogs.