PART I
Chapter I The Trail of the Meat
Chapter II The She-wolf
Chapter Ill The Hunger-cry
PART II
Chapter I The Battle of the Fangs
Chapter II The Lair
Chapter III The Grey Cub
Chapter IV The Wall of the World
Chapter V The Law of Meal
PART III
Chapter I The Makers of Fire
Chapter II The Bondage
Chapter III The Outcast
Chapter IV The Trail of the Gods
Chapter V The Covenant
Chapter VI The Famine
PART IV
Chapter I The Enemy of His Kind
Chapter II The Mad God
Chapter Ill The Reign of Hate
Chapter IV The Clinging Death
Chapter V The Indomitable
Chapter VI The Love-master
PART V
Chapter I The Long Trail
Chapter II The Southland
Chapter III The God's Domain
Chapter IV The Call of Kind
Chapter V The Sleeping Wolf
摘要
'I'm thinking you're down in the mouth some,' Henry said.
'Henry...' He sucked meditatively at his pipe for some time before he went on. 'Henry, I was a-thinkin' what a blame sightluckier he is than you an' me'll ever be.'
He indicated the third person by a downward thrust of the thumb to the box on which they sat.
'You an' me, Henry, when we die, we'll be lucky if we get enough stones over our carcases to keep the dogs off of us.'
'But we ain't got people an' money an' all the rest, like him,' Henry rejoined. 'Long-distance funerals is somethin' you an' me can't exactly afford.'
'What gets me, Henry, is what a chap like this, that's a lord or something in his own country, and that's never had to bother about grub nor blankets——why he comes a-buttin' round the God-forsaken ends of the earth——that's what I can't exactly see.'
'He might have lived to a ripe old age if he'd stayed to home,' HemT agreed.
Bill opened his mouth to speak, but changed his mind. Instead, he pointed toward the wall of darkness that pressed about them from every side. There was no suggestion of form in the utter blackness; only could be seen a pair of eyes gleaming like live coals. Henry indicated with his head a second pair, and a third. A circle of the gleaming eyes had drawn about their camp. Now and again a pair of eyes moved, or disappeared to appear again a moment later.……