a tapestry picture. A man, dressed in the hunting costume of some remote period, had just transfixed a deer with an arrow; it could not have been a difficult shot because the stag was only one or two pacesss away from him in the thickly growing vegetation that the picture suggested, it would not have been difficult to creep
up to a feeding stag, and the spotted dogs that were springing forward to join in the chase had evidently been to keep to heelss till the arrow was discharged. That part of the picture was simple, if interesting, but did the huntsman see, what Nicholas saw, that four galloping wolves were coming in his direction through the wood? There might be more than four of them