"I wonder--" He looked at Langdon.
"Impossible!" exclaimed the latter, as he read the significance of his companion's look.

"Bruce, you don't mean to say that bear might kill them all!" "I've hunted a good many grizzlies," replied the mountaineer quietly, "but I ain't never hunted a trickier one than this.

Jimmy, he trapped them dogs on the ledge, an' he tricked the dog he killed up on the peak.

He's liable to get 'em all into a corner, an' if that happens--" He shrugged his shoulders suggestively.
Again Langdon listened.
"If there were any alive at dark they should be here pretty soon," he said.
"I'm sorry, now--sorry we didn't leave the dogs at home." Bruce laughed a little grimly.
"Fortunes o' war, Jimmy," he said.

"You don't go hunting grizzlies with a pack of lapdogs, an' you've got to expect to lose some of them sooner or later.