SHORT STORY of WARD COURIER: The Second Scholar's Tale: "High Hat and The SkinWalker," Continued

From the unpublished novel "The Roycroft Tales" (c) 2001 by Ward Courier under the pen name Mason Winfield

Several times, Hubbard had the sense of something moving around him, watching and even circling his course. It seemed to range widely out, even riding the crests of the flanking ridges so that he could imagine he saw its hazy stir. At other times it came so close to him ...