To him, as Wabi proceeded with his story of the tragedy in Mukoki's life, the old Indian was transformed into another being.

No longer was he a mere savage reclaimed a little from the wilderness.

There had sprung up in Rod's breast a great, human, throbbing sympathy for him, and in the dim candle-glow his eyes glistened with a dampness which he made no attempt to conceal.
"What does Mukoki mean by 'wolf night' ?" he asked.
"Muky is a wizard when it comes to hunting wolves," Wabi went on.

"He has studied them and thought of them every day of his life for nearly twenty years.

He knows more about wolves than all the rest of the hunters in this country together.