But with Kazan, as with most men, leadership and power roused new sensations.

And he was the leader of the dog-pack, as he had once been a leader among the wolves.

Not only Gray Wolf followed at his flank now, but the four huskies trailed behind him.

Once more he was experiencing that triumph and strange thrill that he had almost forgotten and only Gray Wolf, in that eternal night of her blindness, felt with dread foreboding the danger into which his newly achieved czarship might lead him.
For three days and three nights they remained in the neighborhood of the dead moose, ready to defend it against others, and yet each day and each night growing less vigilant in their guard.

Then came the fourth night, on which they killed a young doe.