Sniffing in the air with dilated nostrils, she felt at once that not their tracks only but they themselves were here before her, and not one, but many.

Laska slackened her speed.

They were here, but where precisely she could not yet determine.

To find the very spot, she began to make a circle, when suddenly her master's voice drew her off.

" Laska! here?" he asked, pointing her to a different direction.