There men do not fear spears or ghosts or wild beasts or magic, but they fear the king's word alone.

The sun sets--give us food.
To-morrow we will search the mountain." Thus, my father, did this captain speak in his folly,--he who should never see another sun.
Now Umslopogaas reached the mountain, and when he had passed the forest--of which he had learned every secret way--the darkness gathered, and the wolves awoke in the darkness and drew near howling.

Umslopogaas howled in answer, and presently that great wolf Deathgrip came to him.
Umslopogaas saw him and called him by his name; but, behold! the brute did not know him, and flew at him, growling.

Then Umslopogaas remembered that the she-wolf's skin was not bound about his shoulders, and therefore it was that the wolf Deathgrip knew him not.

For though in the daytime, when the wolves slept, he might pass to and fro without the skin, at night it was not so.