He felt the shiver that ran through her slim body, and suddenly her eyes swept from him out into the night.
"Listen, Neekewa!" Her fingers tightened in his hand.

For a space he could hear the beating of her heart.
"Twice I have heard it," she whispered then.

"Neekewa, you must go!" "Heard what ?" he asked.
She shook her head.
"Something--I don't know what.

But it tells me there is danger.

And I saw danger over the tepee top, and I have heard whisperings of it all about me.