If Jed Hawkins hurts her again we're goin' to kill him! Understand, Pied-Bot ?" He got up, and Peter could hear him undressing.

Then he made a nest for Peter on the floor, and stretched himself out in the bunk; and after that, for a long time, there seemed to be something heavier than the gloom of night in the cabin for Peter, and he listened and waited and prayed in his dog way for Nada's return, and wondered why it was that she left him so long.

And the Night People held high carnival under the yellow moon, and there was flight and terror and slaughter in the glow of it--and Jolly Roger slept, and the wolf howled nearer, and the creek chortled its incessant song of running water, and in the end Peter's eyes closed, and a red-eyed ermine peeped over the sill into the man-and dog-scented stillness of the outlaw's cabin.
For many days after this first night in the cabin, Peter did not see Nada.

There was more rain, and the creek flooded higher, so that each time Jolly Roger went over to Cragg's Ridge he took his life in his hands in fording the stream.

Peter saw no one but Jolly Roger, and at the end of the second week he was going about on his mended leg.