"Jeanif you don't come backwhat will happen?" He heard the half-breed chuckling.

These twowith what immortal chucklings one may facilely imaginehave left the weakling thus enthroned, free to direct the heavy outcome, free to choose, and free to evoke much happiness or age-long weeping, but with no intermediate course unbarred.

He unlimbered himself; his quills settled a bit; and he advanced toward Muskwa, at the same time resuming his good-natured chuckling.