Shadows of Coming Events Aaron King and Conrad Lagrange were idling in their camp, after breakfast the next morning, when Czar turned his head, quickly, in a listening attitude.

With a low growl that signified disapproval, he moved forward a step or two and stood stiffly erect, gazing toward the lower end of the orchard.
"Some one coming, Czar ?" asked the artist.
The dog answered with another growl, while the hair on his neck bristled in anger.
"Some one we don't like, heh!" commented the novelist.

"Or"-- he added as if musing upon the animal's instinct--"some one we ought not to like." A bark from Czar greeted James Rutlidge who at that moment appeared at the foot of the slope leading up to their camp.
The two men--remembering the occasion of their visitor's last call at their home in Fairlands, when he had seen Sibyl in the studio--received the man with courtesy, but with little warmth.

Czar continued to manifest his sentiments until rebuked by his master.

The coolness of the reception, however, in no way disconcerted James Rutlidge; who, on his part, rather overdid his assumption of pleasure at meeting them again.
Explaining that he had come with a party of friends on a hunting trip, he told them how he had met Brian Oakley, and so had learned of their camp hidden behind the old orchard.