Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1924, Page 17

(Continued from Yesterday's Star.) As he rounded the house to the porte-cochere, he came upon the car- riage. It had stopped, and the mas- ter was alighting. At this moment, still running at top speed, White Fang became suddenly aware of an attack from the side. It was a deer hound rushing upon him. White Fang tried to face it. But he was going too fast, and the hound was too close. It struck him on the side; and such his forward momentum and the pectedness of it, White Fang led He came out of the tan- a spectacle of malignancy, ears flattened back, lips writh nose wrinkling, his teeth clipping together as the fangs barely missed the Lound’s soft throat. The master was was too far away: and it was Collie that saved the hound's life. Before White Fang could spring in and de- liver the fatal stroke, and just as he was in the act of springing in, Collie arrived. She had been outmaneuver- ed and outrun, to say nothing of her having been unceremoniously tum- bled in the gravel, and her arrival was like that of a tornado—made up of offended dignity, justifiable wrath, and instinctive hatred for this ma- rauder from the wild. She struck White Fang at right ansl midst of his s and ag: knocked off hi t and rolled over. The next moment the master rived, and with one hand held White ¥ while the father called off the running up, but 1 say, this is a pretty warm recep- tion for a poor lone wolf from the Arctic,” the master said, while White Fang calmed down under his care: ing hand. “In all his life he's only been known once to go off his feet, and here he's been rolled twice in thirty second: The carria and other stra from out the stood respectfully at a distanc two of them, women, perpet hostile dct of clutching the around the neck White ang, ever, was beginning to tolerate this act. ' No harm seemed to come of it, | while the noises the gods made were certainly not threatening. These | gods als made overtures to White Fan but he warned them off with a snarl, and the master did likewise with word of mouth. At such times | White Fang leaned in cl gainst th ter's 1 and r ed reas- on the head. hound, under he command, ck! Lie down, sir!” had gone up the steps and lain down to one side on the porch, still growling and keep- | ing a sullen watch on the intruder. Collie had been taken in ch: Jne of the woman god: Arms around her neck caressed her; but Collie was very | much perplexed and worried, whin- | ning and restless, outraged by the permitted presence of this wolf and | confi t that the gods were making a mistake. All the gods started up the steps to enter the house. White Fang follow ed cle at the master's heels. Dick, the porch, growled, and White Fang, on the steps, bristled and growled b; ke C inside and leave the two of them to fight it out.” suggest- ed Scott’s father. “After that they'll be friend Then White Fang, to show his friendship, will have to be chief mourner at the funeral,” laughed the master. The elder Scott looked incredulous- 1y, first at White Fang, then at Dick, and finally at his son. “You mean that . . .7 Weedon nodded his head. “I mean just that. You'd have a dead Dick | inside one minute—two minutes at the farthest.” He turned to White Fang. “Come on, you wolf. It's you that'll have to come inside.” White Fang walked stiff-legged up the steps and across the porch, with tail rigidly erect, keeping his eyes on Dick to guard against a flank attack, and at the same time prepared for whatever fierce manifestation of the unknown that might pounce out upon him from the interior of the house. But no thing of fear pounced out, and when he had gained the inside he scouted carefully around, looking for it and finding it not. The» he lay down with a contented grunt at the master’s feet, observing all that went on, ever ready to spring to his feet and fight for life with the terrors he felt must lurk under the trap-roof of the dwelling. master how- CHAPTER IIL The God’s Domain. Not only was White Fang adaptable by nature, but h ehhad traveled much, and knew the meaning and necessity of adjustment. Here, in Sierra Vista, which was the name of Judge Scott’s place, White Fang quickly began to make himself at home. He had no further serious trouble with the dogs. They knew more about the ways of the Southland gods than did he, and in their eyes he had qualified when he accompanied the gods inside the house. Wolf that he was, and unpre- cedented as it was, the gods had sanctioned his presence, and they, the dogs of the gods, could only recog- nize this sanction. Dick, perforce, had to go through a ffew stiff formalities at first, affter which he calmly accepted White Fang as an addition to the premises. Had Dick had his way, they would have been good friends; but White Fang was averse to friendship. All he asked of other dogs was to be let alone. His whole life he had kept aloof from his kind, and he still de- sired to keep aloof. Dick’s overtures bothered him, so he snarled Dick away. In the north he had learned the lesson that he must let the mas- ter's dogs alone, and he did not forget that lesson now. But he insisted on his own privacy and self-seclusion, and so thoroughly ignored Dick that that good-natured creature finally gave him up and scarcely took as much inter- est in him as in the hitching-post near the stable. Not so with Collie. While she ac- cepted him because it was the man- date of the gods, that was no reason that she should leave him in peace. Woven into her being was the mem- ory of countless crimes he and his had perpetrated against her ances try. Not in a day mor a generation were the ravaged sheep-folds to be forgotten. All this was a spur to her, pricking her to retaliation. She could not fly in the face of the gods who permitted him, but that did not prevent her from making life miser- able for him in petty ways. A feud, ages old, was between them, and she, for one, would see to it that he was reminded. So Collie took advantage of her sex .to pick upon White Fang and maltreat him. His instinct would not permit him to attack her, while her persistence would not permit him to ignore her. When she rushed at him he turned his fur-protected shoulder to her sharp teeth and walked away stiff-legged and stately. When she forced him too hard, he was com- pelled to’ go about in a circle, his shoulder presented to her, his head turned from her, and on his face and in his eyes a patient and hored ex- pression. Sometimes, however, a nip on his hind-guarters hastened his re- treat and e it anything but state- . bub as a ruie he managed to maintain a dignity that was almost solemnity. He ignored her existence whenever it was possible, and made it a point to keep out of her. way. When he saw her or heard her com- ing, he got up and walked off. There was much in other matters for White Fang to learn. Life in the Northland was simplicity itself when compared with the complicated af- fairs of Sierra Vista. First of all, he had to learn the family of the mas- ter. In a way he was prepared to do this. As Mit-sah and Kloo-kooch had belonged to Gray Beaver, sharing his food, his fire and his blankets, so now, at Sierra Vista, belonged to the love: master ali the denizens of the house. But in this matter there was a dif- ference, and many differences. Sierra sta was a far vaster affair than the tepee of Gray Beaver. There were many persons to be considered. There was Judge Scott and there was his wife. There were the master’s’ two sisters, Beth and Mary. There was his wife, Alice, and then there were his children, Weedon and Maud, toddlers of four and six. There was no way for any- body to tell him about all these peo- ple, and of blood-ties and relation- ship he knew nothing whatever and ever would be capable of knowing. Yet he quickly worked it out that all of them belonged to the master. Then, by observation, whenever op- portunity offered, by study of action, speech, and the very intonations of the voice, he slowly learned the inti- macy and the degree of favor they i with the master. And by ascertained standard, White Fang treated them accordingly. What was of value to the master he valued; what was dear to the master was to be cherished White Fang and guarded carefu Thus it was with the two childdren. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, All his lite he had disliked children. He hated and feared their hands. The lessons were not tender that he had learned of their tyranny and cruelty in the days of the Indian villages. When Weedon and Maud had first ap- proached him, he growled warningly and looked malignant. A cuff from the master and a sharp word had then compelled him. to permit their ca- resses, though he growled and growled under their tiny hands, and in the growl there was no crooning note. Later, he observed that the boy and girl were of great value in the master's eyes. Then it was that no cuff nor sharp word was neces- sary before they could pat him. Yet White Fang was never effusive- ly affectionate. He yielded to the master’s children with an ill but hon- est grace, and endured their fooling as one would endure a painful opera- tion. When he could no longer en- dure, he would get up and stalk de- terminedly away from them. But after a time, he grew even to like the children. Still he was not de- monstrative. He would not go up to them. On the other hand, instead of walking away at sight of them, he waited for them to come to him. And still later, it was noticed that a pleased light came into his eyes when he saw them approaching, and that he looked after them with an appearance of curious regret when they left him for other amusements. All this was a matter of develop- ment, and took time. Next in his re- after the children, whs Judge There were two reasons, pos- sibly, for this. First, he was evi dently a valuable possession of the and next, he was undemon- White Fangg liked to lie at his feet on the wide porch when Helreadliéie mewapanar teomitimeiin time favoring White Fang with a look or a word—untroublesome tokens that he recognized White Fang's presence and existence. But thi: was only when the master was not around When the master appearid, all other beings ceased to exist so fas as White Fang was concerned. White Fang allowed all the mem- bers of the family to pet him and make much of him; but he never gave to them what he gave to the master. No caress of theirs could put the love- croon into his throat, and, try as him into snuggling against them. This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone. In fact, he never re- garded the members of the family in any other light than possessions of the love-masger. Also White Fang had early come to difterentiate between the family and the servants of the household. The latter were afraid of him, while he merely refrained from = attacking them. This because he considered that they were likewlse possessions of the master. Between White Fang and them existed a neutrality and no more. They cooked for the master and washed the dishes and did other things, just as Matt had done up in the Kiondike. They were, in short, apburtenances of the household. Outside the household there was even more for White Fang to learn. The master's domain was wide and complex, vet it had its metes and bounds. The land itself ceased at the county road. Outside was the com- mon domain of all gods—the roads and streets. Then inside other fences were the particular domains of otfier gods. A myriad laws governed all these things and determined conduct; yet he did not know the speech of the gods, nor was there any way for him to learn save by experience. He obeyed his natural impulses until they ran him counter to some law. When this had been done a-few times, he learned the law and after that ob- served it. But most potent in his education were the cuff of the master's hand, the censure of the master's voice. Be- cause of White Fang's very great love, a cuff from the master hurt him far more than any beating Gray Bea- ver or Beauty Smith had ever given him. They had hurt only the flesh of him; beneath the flesh the spirit had still raged, splendid and invin- cible. But with the master the cuff was always too light to hurt the flesh. Yet it went deeper. It was an expression of the master's disap- proval, and White Fang's spirit wilted under _it. . ~(Continued In Tomorrow's Star.) ———e At 77 years of age, Mrs. Annie Besant, the leader of the Theoso- phists, has journeyed from London to Amsterdam by airplane to attend a conference of her followers. 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