Now
some "coming event" was casting "its shadow before," and the mysterious
monitor warned him to be on his guard.
It was with a feeling of intense relief that he came again in sight of
the canoe and saw that it was undisturbed. He looked across and saw his
friends waving at him. He waved back and stooped to unfasten the canoe.
Then something that struck him as odd in their salutation caused him to
look again. It was not simply a friendly greeting. There was terror,
panic, wild anxiety. And now they were shouting and pointing to something
behind him.
He turned like a flash. And what he saw made his heart almost leap from
his body.
CHAPTER V
The Grizzly at Bay
Tearing down upon him in a rapid, lumbering gallop was a monstrous bear.
It needed no second glance to tell that it was a grizzly. The little eyes
incandescent with rage, the big hump just back of the ears, the enormous
size and bulk could belong to none other than this dreaded king of the
Rockies.
For an instant every drop of blood in Bert's body seemed to rush to his
head.
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