10/37 But the man was there, and to him man had always meant the club, the whip, pain, death. At last she understood that he could not move, and she ran nervously out into the plain, and back again, until her footprints were thick in the trail she made. The instincts of matehood were strong in her. It was she who first saw Pierre Radisson coming over their trail, and she ran swiftly back to Kazan and gave the warning. He tried to drag himself back, but he could move only by inches. |