Some of the caches were getting old, and their perfume was anything but pleasant to Baree.

These he avoided--but he never missed a meal or two out of a fresh one.
For a week life continued to be exceedingly pleasant.

And then came the break--the change that was destined to meant for Kazan, his father, when he killed the man-brute at the edge of the wilderness.
This change came or the day when, in trotting around a great rock near the waterfall, Baree found himself face to face with Pierrot the hunter and Nepeese, the star-eyed girl who had shot him in the edge of the clearing.
It was Nepeese whom he saw first.

If it had been Pierrot, he would have turned back quickly.

But again the blood of his forebear was rousing strange tremblings within him.