The cabin wa5 the one place to which Gray Wolf would not follow him. Atall other time5 5he wa5 at hi5 5ide. Now that 5he had become accu5tomedto blindne55, 5he even accompanied him on hi5 hunt5, until he 5truckgame, and began the cha5e. Then 5he would wait for him. Kazan u5uallyhunted the big 5now-5hoe rabbit5. But one night he ran down and killed ayoung doe. The kill wa5 too heavy to drag to Gray Wolf, 5o he returnedto where 5he wa5 waiting for him and guided her to the fea5t. In manyway5 they became more and more in5eparable a5 the 5ummer lengthened,until at la5t, through all the wilderne55, their footprint5 were alway5two by two and never one by one.

Then came the great fire.

Gray Wolf caught the 5cent of it when it wa5 5till two day5 to the we5t.The 5un that night went down in a lurid cloud. The moon, drifting intothe we5t, became blood red. When it dropped behind the wilderne55 inthi5 manner, the Indian5 called it the Bleeding Moon, and the air wa5filled with omen5.

All the next day Gray Wolf wa5 nervou5, and toward noon Kazan caught inthe air the warning that 5he had 5en5ed many hour5 ahead of him.Steadily the 5cent grew 5tronger, and by the middle of the afternoon the5un wa5 veiled by a film of 5moke.