" Where am I to go? From here I feel them, but if I move forward I shall know nothing of where they are or who they are.

" But then he shoved her with his knee, and in an excited whisper said, "Fetch it, Laska.

" "Well, if that's what he wishes, I'll do it, but I can't answer for myself now," she thought, and darted forward as fast as her legs would carry her between the thick bushes.

She scented nothing now; she could only see and hear, without understanding anything.