"They are not coming this way," said the Chaplain, who was also listening.
"Na, na," said Bateese. "Dey smell long way off, and go 'roun' and 'roun' before ever dey come to camp."
"You don't say that we are in for fun to-night, do you?"
"Don't say noffin," replied Bateese with a shrug. "Only dey won't be here for a long tam anyway."
"Will you take me to see the other women, Harold, before we go to bed?" said Helen with another little shiver.
"You are surely not afraid with such a body of troops around you, Mrs. Manning?" queried the Colonel.
"Not a bit, Sir George," was her answer, and she turned upon him a face that showed no trace of fear, "but I want to visit the women a few minutes and see how they fare."
"By jove, we are blest with having such a woman with us!" said the Colonel to the little crowd about him, as the two moved away. "It gives us a bit of civilization right in the woods; and God knows we need it. She's a treasure, and you men must do what you can for her."
"We will all do that, sir," was the hearty response.
Helen found the women seated on a log with their husbands beside a fire near the middle of the men's quarters. They, too, were discussing the wolf question.