MON DIEU! how you will fight! I swear it will do the ghost of Jacques Le Beau good to see what happens there." He went away, to where he had left his light sledge and two dogs in the edge of the timber, and waited for the moon to rise.
Still Miki did not move, A light had appeared in the window of the cabin, and his eyes were fixed on it yearningly as the low whine gathered in his throat again.

His world no longer lay beyond that window.

The Woman and the baby had obliterated in him all desire but to be with them.
In the cabin Nanette was thinking of him--and of Durant.

The man's words came to her again, vividly, significantly: "YOU WILL NOT WANT THE DOG." Yes, all the forest people would say that same thing--even LE FACTEUR himself, when he heard.

SHE WOULD NOT WANT THE DOG! And why not?
Because he had killed Jacques Le Beau, her husband, in defence of her?
Because he had freed her from the bondage of The Brute?
Because God had sent him to the end of his chain in that terrible moment that the baby Nanette might live, as the OTHER had not, and that she might grow up with laughter on her lips instead of sobs?
In her there rose suddenly a thought that fanned the new flame in her heart.