hand, at the place where the tribe had offered her as a sacrifice to the

lion. "Wau!" cried Ugh-lomi at the sight of her, his face alight with

the fellowship of battle, and he waved his new club, red now and hairy;

and at the sight of his glowing face her tense pose relaxed somewhat,

and she stood sobbing and rejoicing.

Ugh-lomi had a queer unaccountable pang at the sight of her tears; but

he only shouted "Wau!" the louder and shook the axe east and west. He

called manfully to her to follow him and turned back, striding, with the

club swinging in his hand, towards the squatting-place, as if he had

never left the tribe; and she ceased her weeping and followed quickly as

a woman should.

So Ugh-lomi and Eudena came back to the squatting-place from which they

had fled many days before from the face of Uya; and by the

squatting-place lay a deer half eaten, just as there had been before

Ugh-lomi was man or Eudena woman. So Ugh-lomi sat down to eat, and

Eudena beside him like a man, and the rest of the tribe watched them

from safe hiding-places. And after a time one of the elder girls came

back timorously, carrying little Si in her arms, and Eudena called to

them by name, and offered them food. But the elder girl was afraid and

would not come, though Si struggled to come to Eudena. Afterwards, when

Ugh-lomi had eaten, he sat dozing, and at last he slept, and slowly the

others came out of the hiding-places and drew near. And when Ugh-lomi

woke, save that there were no men to be seen, it seemed as though he had

never left the tribe.

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