For a full minute she gazed steadily into his eyes, and Philip did not
break the wonderful silence. And then, with a deep sigh, her head
drooped to his breast. After a moment he heard her whisper:

"You may call him in, Philip. I guess--I've got to be--your wife."

And as the logs of the Devil's Nest sent up a pall of smoke that rose
to the skies, Metoosin crouched shiveringly far back in the gloom of
the pit, wondering if the dogs he had loosed had come to the end of the
trail.

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