You weren't frightened, eh?
What?
What's happened ?" His voice grew anxious, then stern.

"Anything wrong?
Did he--?
Did anyone-- ?" "No, no, Allan!" cried his wife, still clinging to him.

"It was only a wolf and I was a little frightened." "A wolf!" echoed her husband aghast.
The Indian lad spoke a few words and pointed to the dark.

The Indians glided into the woods and in a few minutes one of them returned, dragging by the leg a big, gray timber wolf.

The lad's bullet had gone home.
"And did this brute attack you ?" cried Allan in alarm.
"No, no.