When a cat glides stealthily she is on the hunt.

His curiosity was fully aroused; he longed to see what the animal was hunting and how he would succeed.

Furthermore the panther is in the eyes of the Pueblo Indian the symbol of the greatest physical power.

A feeling overcame the old man as if this symbol was presenting itself to him at the very time when he needed the greatest moral strength himself; and the animal appeared like a living fetich, a hint from Those Above.

He followed the movements of the puma eagerly.