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The
coyotes
were
greatly
increased
,
and
it
was
at
this
time
that
I
first
encountered
wolves
,
straying
in
twos
and
threes
and
small
packs
down
from
the
regions
where
they
had
always
persisted
.
"
It
was
at
Lake
Temescal
,
not
far
from
the
one-time
city
of
Oakland
,
that
I
came
upon
the
first
live
human
beings
.
Oh
,
my
grandsons
,
how
can
I
describe
to
you
my
emotion
,
when
,
astride
my
horse
and
dropping
down
the
hillside
to
the
lake
,
I
saw
the
smoke
of
a
campfire
rising
through
the
trees
.
Almost
did
my
heart
stop
beating
.
I
felt
that
I
was
going
crazy
.
Then
I
heard
the
cry
of
a
babe
--
a
human
babe
.
And
dogs
barked
,
and
my
dogs
answered
.
I
did
not
know
but
what
I
was
the
one
human
alive
in
the
whole
world
.
It
could
not
be
true
that
here
were
others
--
smoke
,
and
the
cry
of
a
babe
.
"
Emerging
on
the
lake
,
there
,
before
my
eyes
,
not
a
hundred
yards
away
,
I
saw
a
man
,
a
large
man
.
He
was
standing
on
an
outjutting
rock
and
fishing
.
I
was
overcome
.
I
stopped
my
horse
.
I
tried
to
call
out
but
could
not
.
I
waved
my
hand
.
It
seemed
to
me
that
the
man
looked
at
me
,
but
he
did
not
appear
to
wave
.
Then
I
laid
my
head
on
my
arms
there
in
the
saddle
.
I
was
afraid
to
look
again
,
for
I
knew
it
was
an
hallucination
,
and
I
knew
that
if
I
looked
the
man
would
be
gone
.
And
so
precious
was
the
hallucination
,
that
I
wanted
it
to
persist
yet
a
little
while
.
I
knew
,
too
,
that
as
long
as
I
did
not
look
it
would
persist
.
"
Thus
I
remained
,
until
I
heard
my
dogs
snarling
,
and
a
man
's
voice
.
What
do
you
think
the
voice
said
?
I
will
tell
you
.
It
said
:
'
Where
in
hell
did
you
come
from
?
'
"
Those
were
the
words
,
the
exact
words
.
That
was
what
your
other
grandfather
said
to
me
,
Hare-Lip
,
when
he
greeted
me
there
on
the
shore
of
Lake
Temescal
fifty-seven
years
ago
.
And
they
were
the
most
ineffable
words
I
have
ever
heard
.
I
opened
my
eyes
,
and
there
he
stood
before
me
,
a
large
,
dark
,
hairy
man
,
heavy-jawed
,
slant-browed
,
fierce-eyed
.
How
I
got
off
my
horse
I
do
not
know
.
But
it
seemed
that
the
next
I
knew
I
was
clasping
his
hand
with
both
of
mine
and
crying
.
I
would
have
embraced
him
,
but
he
was
ever
a
narrow-minded
,
suspicious
man
,
and
he
drew
away
from
me
.
Yet
did
I
cling
to
his
hand
and
cry
.
"
Granser
's
voice
faltered
and
broke
at
the
recollection
,
and
the
weak
tears
streamed
down
his
cheeks
while
the
boys
looked
on
and
giggled
.
"
Yet
did
I
cry
,
"
he
continued
,
"
and
desire
to
embrace
him
,
though
the
Chauffeur
was
a
brute
,
a
perfect
brute
--
the
most
abhorrent
man
I
have
ever
known
.
His
name
was
...
strange
,
how
I
have
forgotten
his
name
.
Everybody
called
him
Chauffeur
--
it
was
the
name
of
his
occupation
,
and
it
stuck
.
That
is
how
,
to
this
day
,
the
tribe
he
founded
is
called
the
Chauffeur
Tribe
.
"
He
was
a
violent
,
unjust
man
.
Why
the
plague
germs
spared
him
I
can
never
understand
.
It
would
seem
,
in
spite
of
our
old
metaphysical
notions
about
absolute
justice
,
that
there
is
no
justice
in
the
universe
.
Why
did
he
live
?
--
an
iniquitous
,
moral
monster
,
a
blot
on
the
face
of
nature
,
a
cruel
,
relentless
,
bestial
cheat
as
well
.
All
he
could
talk
about
was
motor
cars
,
machinery
,
gasoline
,
and
garages
--
and
especially
,
and
with
huge
delight
,
of
his
mean
pilferings
and
sordid
swindlings
of
the
persons
who
had
employed
him
in
the
days
before
the
coming
of
the
plague
.
And
yet
he
was
spared
,
while
hundreds
of
millions
,
yea
,
billions
,
of
better
men
were
destroyed
.
