A second and a third time he sprang the length of the leash into the night, and the babiche cord about his neck cut into his flesh like a knife.

The hair was worn short at their flanks, and one still dragged after him three feet of corded babiche trace.

She, too, saw the point, and suddenly the babiche leash slipped from her fingers, and a strange light leaped into her blue eyes as she saw what stood at the end of that white tip of sand.

Somewhere he obtained a chain for Kazan, and after fastening the dog securely back of the tent he cut off the babiche muzzle.

Then there came the morning, very early, when the babiche collar and the iron chain were fastened to him again.

Then he dragged Kazan to a log that high water had thrown up on the shore a few yards away and made the end of the babiche rope fast to a dead snag.

Instantly he sent the canoe into midstream, swung it quickly down with the current, and began to paddle enough to keep the babiche taut about his victim's neck.

He did this by plaiting babiche thongs in the same manner that one does in making the web of a snow-shoe.

By means of a pole and a babiche noose, Kazan was brought out from under the windfall and taken to Henri's cabin.

For a time little was to be heard save the creaking of the babiche lacing of the snowshoes, for the dogs were running silently, and Miles, saving his breath for the work of getting along, was controlling them merely by dumb show, flourishing the whip to hold them back when they took on a spurt, or beckoning them along when they showed signs of lagging.