Once in a great while when the night is just right, when the moon is shining and it is bitter cold, Mukoki seems to go a little mad.

He calls this a 'wolf night.' No one can stop him from going out; no one can get him to talk; he will allow no one to accompany him when in such a mood.

He will walk miles and miles to-night.

But he will come back.

And when he returns he will be as sane as you and I, and if you ask him where he has been he will say that he went out to see if he could get a shot at something." Rod had listened in rapt attention.