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"Well be glad to help," said the young man. "You don't understand us, that's
why we came over, to help you-"
"I should think so!" snapped Marie. "That's more tike ft. Here, when there's
hardly any people left in the world, those that are left need to stick
together. Wen, maybe I shouldn't jump down your throat tike that-"She was
still continuing to towel Wendy vigorously in her almost-dance, in spite of
the fact that Wendy now, plainly, wanted only to be released. "But if you'd
just had to swim an icy river tike that, you'd be a little upset too, when a
bunch of men with guns-"
"Mommy, Fra dry nowl" Wendy was protesting, squirming hi Marie's grasp.
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Hold still, dear!" said Marie. "As I was saying, a bunch of men with guns-"
I caught ft then,, out of the corner of my eye; fust a flicker of movement
Suddenly, I saw What was happening, and why Marie had been standing there,
chattering and bouncing about to bold their attention.
While she had been putting on her tittle show, the dogs had been about their
own business. Apparently she had trained them well. As long as the eyes of the
man ft watched was upon it, the dog guarding him stood tensely still, at point
But the moment that attention moved elsewhere for even a fraction of ft
second, the dog stole forward-one step, two steps, even half a step, as if ft
was stalking a rabbit lying still and hidden in a cornfield. To begin with,
the dogs had been almost as far away from the men as Marie and I were. Now,
they bad halved the distance between them and our welcoming committee.
Now, ft was no longer a case of the men being able to kOl all the dogs before
the dogs could reach them. They might kill a good half of the dogs, but the
other half stood an almost equal chance of reaching them while they were doing
that.
In the same moment that I saw the flicker of movement, the man with the gun,
at which the movement had been directed, saw it too. Evidently the dog had
gotten too far inside our fields of vision to move without being noticed.
Tek-" shouted the man. The dogs! Look!" The young leader jerked his eyes from
Marie and swept them around the semicircle of half-crouching canines. At the
same time the others started to jerk their guns up. But I had already taken
advantage of the fact that their attention was off me to sweep up the rifle
off the raft into my own hands.
"Hold ill" I shouted.
I had the rifle to my shoulder, aimed at Tek's belt The dogs were ready.
"Hold it-just like he says!" barked Tek-if that was the young leader's full
name. He himself stood perfectly
StUL
His men froze.
That's better,** he said, hi a calmer voice. He looked once more at Marie and
me and smiled; but I could see a little shininess of sweat on his face. A
30.06 slug through the intestines is not a happy prospect; and I was close
enough so that even if I was a poor shot, I shouldn't miss. "That*8 much
better. You don't want to waste any of these good dogs, now do you, ma'am?
We'll just back out of here and let you folks go your own way, since that's
what you seem to want If we can't be friends"-and he was smiling at Marie
alone, now-"then that*s just how it'll have to be. Sorry, though. It'd have
been nice to know you. Now, we'll just start backing up...."
And he did start backing up. His men imitated him. The dogs immediately
followed, step for step, as if invisible threads connected each of them to the
man on which the dog focused.
"Hold!" said Marie. The dogs stopped; and die men kept backing, each holding
his rifle in one hand, down by his side and out of the way. I kept my own
rifle steady at my shoulder.
The men reached the edge of the trees and slipped back into their shadow, all
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but Tek, who stopped briefly.
"Keep going," said Marie.
"Sure. See you sometime," called Tek.
"Only if we don't see you first!" answered Marie, grimly.
Tek waved. He paused for a second and looked directly at me. He made a little
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