The thrill of a great and impending danger stirred in his blood.

And then-- In that moment Nepeese felt the pressure of the rock on her shoulder, and into the eyes that had been glowing softly at Baree there shot a sudden wild look of horror.

And then there came from her lips a cry that was not like any other sound Baree had ever heard in the wilderness--wild, piercing, filled with agonized fear.

Pierrot did not hear that first cry.

But he heard the second and the third--and then scream after scream as the Willow's tender body was slowly crushed under the settling mass.