9. There were at least two hundred deer the between the two groups of wolves. and more were coming constantly into view round the shoulder of the transverse ridge. eastern its Angeline's glance seemed to take them all in before she and her companions began to move off. Spreading out to form a line abreast. with intervals of a couple of hundred yards between them so that they spanned almost the whole width of the valley, they now began to run north.
10. They were not running hard. but there was a new purposefulness to their movements that the deer seemed to recognize Herd after herd began to turn about and move north, until most of the caribou in the valley were being driven back the way they had come. By the time the three wolves were nearing the ridge, they were herding at least a hundred deer ahead of them.