Was this, on her part, caprice or foresight?
No one has the secret of these inexplicable instincts, which sometimes reveal to animals the presence of an invisible enemy, or the approach of a disaster.
At evening, Selkirk had not returned! Marimonda passed the night in awaiting him, uttering plaintive cries.
On the morrow the morning rolled away, then the day, then the night, and the cabin remained deserted, and Marimonda in vain scaled the trees and hills in the neighborhood to recover traces of her master.
What had become of him?
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