To these cries Iskwao paid no attention at all, but continued to smell noses with Thor.
Finally freeing his bleeding nose, Pipoonaskoos shook Muskwa off by sheer force of superior weight and took to flight on a dead run.

Muskwa pegged valiantly after him.

Twice they made the circle of the basin, and in spite of his shorter legs, Muskwa was a close second in the race when Pipoonaskoos, turning an affrighted glance sidewise for an instant, hit against a rock and went sprawling.

In another moment Muskwa was at him again, and he would have continued biting and snarling until there was no more strength left in him had he not happened to see Thor and Iskwao disappearing slowly over the edge of the slope toward the valley.
Almost immediately Muskwa forgot fighting.

He was amazed to find that Thor, instead of tearing up the other bear, was walking off with her.
Pipoonaskoos also pulled himself together and looked.