ght safety with the hunter, and he saved it--and you also I have
run down and you boldly seek safety with me. Yes! you are as wise as
you are beautiful, for I will never harm a hair of you. We are
brothers, oh, bounding Blacktail! only I am the elder and stronger,
and if only my strength could always be at hand to save you, you would
never come to harm. Go now, without fear, to range the piney hills;
never more shall I follow your trail with the wild wolf rampant in my
heart. Less and less as I grow do I see in your race mere flying
marks, or butcher-meat. We have grown, Little Brother, and learned
many things that you know not, but you have many a precious sense that
is wholly hidden from us. Go now without fear of me.

[Illustration]

"I may never see you again. But if only you would come sometimes and
look me in the eyes and make me feel as you have done to-day, you
would drive the wild beast wholly from my heart, and then the veil
would be a little drawn and I should know more of the things that wise
men have prayed for knowledge of. And yet I feel it never will be--I
have found the Grail. I have learned what Buddha learned. I shall
never see you again. Farewell."

[Illustration]

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