Is
that it?"
Itsu San nodded for reply.
"You heard them talking among themselves, and Mowbray planned to attack
this house, and kill us all?"
Again the Japanese girl nodded.
"When they had gone you found this wolfskin, and, thinking that it was
the only way in which to escape, you crawled into it, and crept all the
way here, playing wolf, to warn us?"
"Yes. I crawled to their camp, and heard them talk. I tried to get close
to my blother, to cut him loose, but they saw me and drove me away, and
shot at me."
"Mercy! But I don't see why they didn't see through your disguise. It
wouldn't fool any one."
"It was the half dark."
"Oh, yes. But why didn't you get out of the skin when you came within
sight of the house?"
"I not have the strength. I climb the hill and see the house. Then I
fall down, and not can rise again. All what I can do is to wave my
handkerchief. Then I faint."
"You are a brave and lovely girl, and I already love you like a sister,"
said Stella warmly. "You shall stay here, and need not be afraid. We
will be ready for the Gray Wolves, and they will not kill either us or
you. Your warning comes just in time."
CHAPTER XXIII.
BAGGING THE GRAY WOLVES.
That night Ted Strong went on watch himself in the cupola, while Bud and
Clay Whipple marched around the house in opposite directions.
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