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Professor Rubek.
"We two"? What two?
Maia.
Why, I and that horrid bear-killer, of course.
Professor Rubek.
Oh, he.
Maia.
Yes. And first thing to-morrow morning we are going off again.
Professor Rubek.
After bears?
Maia.
Yes. Off to kill a brown-boy.
Professor Rubek.
Have you found the tracks of any?
Maia.
[With superiority.] You don't suppose that bears are to be found in the naked mountains, do you?
Professor Rubek.
Where, then?
Maia.
Far beneath. On the lower slopes; in the thickest parts of the forest. Places your ordinary town-folk could never get through
