[Under the Great Bear by Kirk Munroe]@TWC D-Link bookUnder the Great Bear CHAPTER XXI 9/11
Crew in distress.
Need immediate assistance. Homolupus.'" "With such a message to urge me, I made instant preparation, and came here with all speed." "It was awfully good of you," said White. "Perhaps not quite so good as you may think, since our annual supply ship having thus far failed to make her appearance, the mission is very short of provisions, and the intimation that there was an abundance within reach relieved me of a load of anxiety.
So if you are disposed to sell----" "Excuse me for interrupting," broke in Cabot, "but, before you get to talking business, please tell us something more about the man who sent you to our relief.
Who is he? Where does he live? What does he look like? Why does he disappear when you go in answer to his signals? Why do you call him a wolf-man? What----" "Seems to me that is about as many questions as I can remember at one time," said the missionary, smiling at Cabot's eagerness, "and I am sorry that, with my slight knowledge of the subject, I cannot answer them satisfactorily.
The man-wolf was well known to this country before I came to it, which was three years ago, and dwells somewhere to the southward of this place, though no one, to my knowledge, has ever seen his habitation.
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