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gazine. Frid Aut An Ideal Summer Romance of the Big Outdoors A Complete Novel Each Week in The Evening World GOOOHHDODOOVDIHOTED @) 3 ness of the closed-in den where he had been born. That this world was not altogether so nice as it at first appeared he was very soon to learn, signs of an approaching storm one y Gray Wolf tried to lure him back under the windfall. warning to Ba-ree and he did not un- BI Where Gray Wolf failed, teach a first lesson. eht in a sudden de! Wor y Ma Dail ot ee ln eR veni The Best Dog Story Ever Written. (Coprright, 1914, by Robbe- Merrill Co.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, a huge wolf dog, belongs to Thorpe, GDHHHHHHDDOHHDHDOHHHHOHHODHHDODIOGOSS: pricked up her ears at the tumult of broad across the chest. Since the day of art, with a little red in the lower corners. The forest peopl: what to expect of husky pu early develop that drop of red. 4 warning that they are born of the Kazan led his blind mate first into d that their mothe: His eyes were tact with the seared and blackened the little torrent. t the fire, when Kazan and she had saved themselves on the sand bar, she had ceased to have the inherent wolf She followed fear- lessiy, even eagerly, behind Kazan as t he sought a place where they could ford the rushing little stream. On the other side Kazan could see Gray Wolf could and she whined joyously, bel with her blind face turned toward it. A hundred yards up the stream a big cedar had falien over it, and Kazan began to cross. ment Gray Wolf hesitated, and then followed, With their heads and shoul- ders in the dark opening to their nest they scented the air long and cau- At the darkening horror of water. ir fath- fi = It wos her first im for titla act of violence, Ki ager Imo the wilderuem, i <i : eats, Winds from Hudson's Bay had it eee eed ioe heif driven the flames in an unbroken sea sido in swift pursuit of a snow: dog, the wild had claimed him for- the big windfall. re $ z FH Not until the day of his first real Taheritanes. eritance. He had gone forunce then unual from Soe en after the battle on the scent and hearing until My the windfali—fully a hundred yards. instincts, Hero he found a new wonder. It flattened him out in pure terror was drenched drowned before Gray Wolf caught him between her ja him into shelter. this the first strani life came to him, and one by one his thi instinots received their birth. est for him of the days to follow was that on which his inquisitive nose touched the raw flesh of a killed and bleedin; first taste of bio: It filled him with a strange excite. j, and thereafter he knew what Kasan brought in 4), fi Rr One by one after rh It was her blindness, told her that to the paddie against the side of his casos Hee tad heard tt before and he north—and not south—lay the hunt- a quarter of « mile away. had looked down on it from afar— from a distance of fifty vee cate. pe eres edge ot an Tong time, with the water rippling and honed, Row, become, ae, deadly an Sandy had hunted Arotic foxes, HAPTER XI. Always Two by Two. softly, and went out. atinctively his eyes turned The sky was a biase of stars. Hight he could see the cage, and he watching and sound came to him. Wolf knawing at the sapling bars of A moment later there came a low sobbing whin: knew that it was Kazan cry Then they entered. Kazan heard Gray Wolf as she flung herself down on the dry floor of the snug cavern. She was panting, not from exhaus- tion, but because she was filled with @ sensation of contentment and hap- In the darkness Kagan’ ‘ds at least. san still pulled him south. It was not Boing to the because he sought man, for to man < rabbit. It was bis It was sweet. Then he moved eautiously alone instinct to travel northward. At th® the wind, ‘Icasan’ caught @ sapie Py ope when thes, ovinb Furious Mut, ¢d, of the third day Gray Wolf won. Gnite"of the ie | tis ana Be é tering lowe to im. ang one of | the They recrossed the little valley be- jerce big jays e was direotly in his path. poems Bag It could not fy. wings ably broken in a etrug- waters of the McFarlane River. smaller But for an instant Late in the preceding autumn a was a moat startling and defiant Pn'the ‘save, Teiver, of life to pareh — ae ", : i rayish crest along ‘and he advanced, The §°t&, He had made the find on the Wana wounded jay remained motionless un- “4 til Ba-ree was within three feet of ft. 4c 4e, Stat mails hed taken the news it meant when something between his jaws. began to battle with sticks in place of the soft fur, and bis teeth grew as hard and sharp as little needles. t Mystery was bared to hen Kasan brought in a big rabbit that 0 badly crushed to Gray Wolf and, pant er, she licked his face. one meaning. And Kagan under- For a moment he lay down beside her, listening, and 0; to their nest. about the log walls. to the opening when scent came to him, and he grew: rigid and his bristles stood up. The scent was followed by a whimpering, baby- gle with some one preying beasts. was atill alive bu! that it ome run when dropped the und. e ts know what rabbits and partridges meant—the sweet warm blood that he loved better even loved bi Te was close sudden fresh Leaning against the side of the i araterne Reized it, smiled silently, thrilled by a strange happiness, and thousand miles away in that city on the Saskatchewan ho could feel another spirit rejotcing with Pim. He moved toward the cage. wa, ani two of the sapling bers were knocked out. Piwe drew back. Gray Wol/ opening frst, and she slipped out rlight like a shadow, abe did not flee. Out in the open space she waited for Kazan, and for @ moment the two stood there, look- ing at the cabin. Thea they set oft &° Wolf's ‘shoulder than he had ever milk. A porcupine entered the opening and proceeded to advance in its fool- ish fashion, etill oh: had come to seen one of the mon- nd now the rabbit that Kazan dropped to the ground, kick- ing with a broken o back appalled. lew. moments an vera the dying throes of Kazan’s aye azan and Gray Wolf -ree’s first lesson in his - Cl Meee ing and flesh-eating d they stood close over making no effort to end to the outside worl bly bey te vage —J In short quick hops it began to re- > refused to take guidance from her. Instantly Ba-ree's indecision tet the earliest members of @ treas- had flown to the four winds. With the count! snow-shoe and dog- one ee yelp he flew at the sledge. eT OY ans ‘came thick and snakelike with the wind jA_ his face heard that sound other beasts had ignore the presence of the innocuous creature that made it. But just now he did not stop to consider that what he saw was a por. and that at his first ing and strugstl Then Weyman bacl it Ba-re For a few moments there was a score race, and Ba-ree’s sharp jaime along Uttle tooth buried themselves in the ae Ga. take LW jay‘e feathers. Hwift as iré's beak began to strike. ‘was the king of the smaller birds. In nesting season it killed the brush yuyon, <r, = mild-eyed moose-birds, o the tree-sappers. dred, a thousand—rushed into the again it struck Ba-ree with its pow- 4 erful beak, but the ma ot Kasan haa NOW country. Most of these were now reac! 0 Age O' pain of the blows only made his own south, and from the placer beds of Fraser. Found the flesh, and a “rom the far North, traveling by way uppyish snarl rose in his ‘ortunately he dad gained & hold un- * smaller number blowa the jay’s ré: Five minutes later Ba-ree ened bis teeth and drew back a step to look at the crumpled and motion- 4 jens creature before him. He had won bis first battle. And with victory came the wonderful flash the Pese®, work. Late-comers swung to The J8Y and to Fort Smith came rumors seemed to un JOOU 000000000000 00000, Not for an instant was he off guard. As surely as one expects the sun to rise eo did sooner or later their deadly would creep on them from out of thi In another hour such as th! ad brought blindn and waited and wat for the lynx to come again. And unto any other creature of flesh and hi blood that dared approach the wind: fall in these frat days of Gray Wolfs motherhood! waddle away as f chattering baby ta! first reasoning was that It was a live thing invading the home to which Gray Wolf and he had just returned, A day later, or perhaps an hour later, he would have driven it back with a leaped upon it. intermingled with pig-like squeaks, and then ing staccato of howls followed the at- tack. Gray Wolf a at _Karun’s flank. ‘Weyman breathed deeply. “Two by two—always two by two, 4a death finde one of them,” he brought @ spruce partrid Wolf, but just as he spring upon hie feathered prey the soft clatter of a porcupine f yards away brought him to ‘ew things could make Kazan and incoherent prat- tle of the little spiked beast sent him LJ double-quick with his tail be- As man abhors and the creeping he expect that 4 at the rabbit and then turned fer blind face toward Ba-ree. After himself out on his y and watched the pro- in ‘ively, Tach time that Gray Wolf lowered head to meee the rabbit Ba- nd the teeth sink de A CHAPTER XII. throat, the first dozen nce grew weak- 'T happened that Kazan was to remember three things above all others. He could §. ‘ang to the open- ‘upine was rolled up in &® dozen feet sho could hear Kazan tearing about in the throes of the direst agony that can befall a beast His face and nose had spread ite wings of sunshine and plenty over the swamp. There were no intrude: noisy whisky-jacks, the bi moose-birds, animal history has been known to lose its good humor or pick Two weeks of lengtheni: increasing warmth, of hunting, followed Kazai with the porcupine, e@now went rapidly. in to spring tips of green. neesh vine gliistened redder each day, the poplar buds began to split, and in the sunniest spots between ridges the little white snow-flowers began to give a ring had come. Gray Wolf hunted frequently with They did not ‘he days in the traces, though they were growing more shadowy and tndistinct in his momory as the sum- mers and tha winters passod. Like @ dréam there came to him a memory of the time he had gone down to Like dreams were the ‘Visions that rose before him now and of the First Wom: of the forests. re, unless the mat of quills. For a few moments he rolled and et mold and earth, paw- ing madly at the things that pierced Then he set off like all dogs will who have come into con- the friendly porcupine, and ain and again around ‘the windfall, howling at every jump. Gray Woit took the matter coolly. It is possible that at-times there are animals, If #0, she saw thii scented the porcupine and she knew that Kazan was full of quills. there was not nothing to fight she haunches and waited, pricking up her ears every time Kazan pi his mad circuit around the windfall. fourth or fifth heat the porcu- pine smoothed himself down a little, and continuing the interrupted thread of its chatter, waddled to a nearby jast spasmodic convulsion the ‘and big rabbit doubled up its rear lege ve a kick that sent Ba-ree }, eprawiing back, yelpin, regained his feet, an first time, anger and the desire to re- tallate took possession of him, The kick had completed his frat He came back with caution, but atiffer-1 moment later had di ® in the rabbit's neck. He could feel the throb of life in the soft body, the muscles of the dying rabbit twitched convulstvely under him, and he hung with his teeth until there was no longer @ tremor of life in his first kill. is: chattering bush and could be called such. the first day or two Kasan went more frequently into the wind- fall, and though more than once he nosed sly about Gray Wolf ly the one ie e of | that Sreateat fosttacy of and he hed 4 him that no longer was The last of the Out of the earth in terror. He then, for the drone in the marvellous mechan. ism of wildern i 4 of it from this time forth. For he hed wearohi! he could find A little further west th would have called the pu; two reasons—because brothers or sisters, and mixture of dog and wolf. He was a sleek and lively little fel- low from the beginning, for there w; no division of mother strength and attention. He deevioped with the true swiftness of the wolf-whelp, and not jowness of the dog days he was sa: cuddle close against his mother, feed- p, ‘he was bungry, sleeping a t deal and preened and laundered et_constantly fectionate tongue. busier and more inquis!- tive with every hour. mother’s blind face, with tremendous ; effort he tumbled over her paws, and once he lost himself complete! eniffled for hel; or eighteen inches away from her. bs It was not long after this that he Kasan as a part ;, then of tho f. and of the faces of m: Bim—bad lived ages ago. And never would he quite forget the Fire and his fiy.ts with man and ong chases in the Moonlight. But two things were al- Ways with him as if they b.d been esterday, rising clear and unfor- o hie trail. fee ite feathers were scattered little fear. Brutality was about and Ba-ree's little nose was thing written in his face. Ba-ree was lying in triumph dershot jaw, bis wide we ‘Wout head and grissly mop understood and caressed him joyously. proclaimed bim at once as @ ‘When they returned to the windf: Ba-ree carried in bis jaws what was vision or the reach of a bullet. It suspected tha! ‘hour of his firet kill w couple of men, and robbed others, assion of but as yet the ‘The jay was torn @nd drink. He bad no is tiny, teeth beside hie victim. Swiftly Gray east’ and his fresh meat. ti Gray Wolf hunted the soft and balmy night, the radiance of a full spr! when she refused to leave the wind- Kazan did not urge her. hunting became the chief p: pol had Tia-ree’s life. When he was not sleep- serels “on” him. But aleng with e ‘life Thetbe “ aa ger possessed a coolness ightered an @- rage which even his worst enemies). . not but and also frat the eases tain mental de hie unpleas- Baniy's are for him to stalk and he killed three. Hiren be encountered on ermine apa oat features did Ree prociain. je above all others, like the two stars in the their brilliance. ‘The other was the terrible fight of that night on the top of the Sun Rock, when the lynx had blinded forever Ris wild mate, Gray Wolf. in condescended to sniff ap- y of his son when he ing in the sun or un: North that never lost 4, at night he was seekin: could deatroy. tire family of woo Mooee-birds wore at warm sweet blood tasted so good to Ba-ree as it did to-day. Swiftly Ba-ree developed from into @ fiesh-eatin 1. one the mysteries of were unfolded to him: e ing night chortle of the gray owl, the crash of a falling tree, Mt thunder, the rush of runni: scream of a fisher cat, t! of the cow moose and that night in his hunt. When he turned he brought a rabb’ Came then the night when from the darkest corner df the windfall Gray Wolf warped him back with a He Stood in the opening, a rabbit between his jaws. no offense at the snari, but stood ing into the gloom hidden herself. gnaw the tender bark from a limb. At last Kazan halted before Gray The first agony of a hundred ‘cing his flesh had deadened into a steady burning pain, Gray Wolf went over to him and in- vestigated him cautiously. With her teeth she seized the ends of two or three of the quills and pulled them much dog now. He gave a yelp, and whimpered as Gray Wolf jerked out a second bunch of quilla, Then he finttened himself on his belly, stretched out his fore- legs, closed his eyes and without any other sound except yelp of pain allowed Gray Wolf to go on with the operation. Fortunately he had escaped getting any of the quills in his mouth and But his nose and jaws were soon red with blood. For an hour Gray Wolf kept faith- fully at her task, and by the end of that time had succeeded in pulling eut most of the quills, A few still remained, too short and too deeply im- bedded for her to extract with her in the minds of men; i @ not very different wa, main in the minds of beasts. Belther brain nor reason to measure the depths of sorrow or of happiness. And Kazan in his unreasoning way knew that contentment and peace, @ full stomach, and caresses and kind insteal of blows.had come to Bim through Woman, and that com- wilderness-faith, loyalty and devution—were The third unforgetable thing was about to occur in the home ad found for themselves under amp windfall during the days Id and famine. They had left the swamp over a month before, when it was smothered vats feat cooled hia ardor for ® om but taught him the great lesson that Smith, and Fort Smith wae Sve Run- Pt taut Dither fanged and, flesh. ¢feq and Afty miles from civilisation, little needles pi days, when he rolled ing animals besides bimeelf and When Sandy cam t nature had so schemed for a moment, gi where Gray Wolf hi Then he dropped the rabbit and lay down squarely in the opening. After a little he rose restlessly and went But he did not leave the It was day when he re- He sniffed, as he bad sniffed once before a long time ago, between the boulders at the top of the Bun Rock. That which was in the air was no longer a mystery to him. He came nearer and Gray Wolf did not snarl. She whined coaxingly as he touched Then his muzzle found some- It was soft and warm ge little sniffling things crude collection of shacks, gambling fang must not prey upon fsee houses and saloons in the new town, began to recognise of his mother, and he was scarcely more than a week old when he rolled himeelf up contentedly between Ka- legs and went to sleep. P deep sigh Gray Wolf laid across one of her mate's forelegs, with her nose touching her runawa, and seemed vastly contented, half an hour Kasan did not move. When he was ten days old Ba-ree discovered there was great tussling with @ bit of rabbit fur. @ little later when he made his nd exciting discovery—! The sun had now reached a point where in the middle of the afternoon a bright gleam of it found n overhead opening At first Ba-ree would only stare at the golden streak, Then came the time when he tried to play { with it as he played with the rabbit tl But chief of all these mysteries that were already becoming a part of his instinct was the mystery of One day he wandered fifty y from the windfall and is little nose touched the warm scent Instantly, without rea- soning or further process of educa- tion, he knew that to flesh and blood whic! must follow the scent. led slowly along the trail until he came to a big log, over which the rabbit had vaulted in a long leap, and from this log he turned ba after thie he went on ad- ventures of his own. At first he was xplorer without’ a compass In @ vast and unknown world. encountered somethin; Kazan was ve ipe for any of his “inside” Many things had been born in him. Ws not ri Inatinatively he shunned the porcu- echemes just yet, pine without experiencing ¢! He pane face to of its quills. with a fisher cat after his fight with wore seeking food, an ight &n outfit. A feature of outht was ‘as there was Who always carried the latest Gav- no food between them to fight over age om the market, at it But Gosen different places. The each went his own way, re rarther. Ba-ree ven- allow of. He started south—up the labor found vent in his tured from the windfall, always fol- McFarlane. Beyond @ certain point mont and a t ; lowing the creek. Some times he On the river prospectors bad at ee: per wan fone for hours At Arst Gray 20, OD ines conGhan le tangible te curse, The failure of BOS A Wolf was restless when as perry on tye ys ‘ with him, and this point. Not until be was in new ote gore but she seldom wotlessness left her, country did he begin his search. Slow. e1imas to Fenerel bed luck: was working swiftly. t at the sweet be loved he and made a queer sound. There was a responsive whine and in the darkness came the quick soft caress of Gray Wolf's tongue. Kazan returned to the sunshine and stretched himself out before the door His jaws dropped open, for he was filled with a strange contentment. CHAPTER XII. Education of Ba-Ree. OBBED once of the joys of parenthood by the murder on the Sun Rock, both Gray Wolf and Kazan were dit- spring warmth. Everywhere, big and small, there were the rushing tor- melting snows and crackle of crumbling ice, the dying cries of thawing rock and earth and tree, and each night for many nights st the cold, pale glow of the aurora realis had crept further and fur- ther towa.d the Vole tn fading glory. So early us this the poplar buds ha begun to swell and the air was filled with the sweet odor of balsam, spruce Where there famine and death and stillness aix weeks before Kazan and Gray Wolf now stood at the edge of the swamp and breathed the earthy smells of ring and listened to the sounds of Over their heads a pair of wily mated moovebirds fluttered and acolded at them. A big jay sat vlum- himself in the sunshine, ‘urther in they heard the crack of a stick broken under a heavy hoof. From the ridge behind thum caught the raw scent of a mother bear, busy pulling down the tender poplar buds for her six-weeks-old ¢ubs, born while she was still deep in r winter sleop. in the warmth of the sun and the sweetness of the air there breathed to Gray Wolf the myster; hood and of motherhood. softly and. rubbed her blind face Inst Kazan. For days, in her way, tried to tell him. More than e whe Wanted to curl hersclf up in t! warm dry nest under the windfall, Bhe had no desire to hunt. ‘The crack of the dry stick was un- era cloven hoof and the warm scent of the she-bear and her cubs roused none of the old instincts in her, She to ourl herself up in the old And she tried hard to make Kazan understand her in his throat, its way throug! in the windfa new,, Moonlight nights hi always wonderful, frequently terrify. Wanderlust: was gro more insistent After Kazan went down creek and buried his burning nozzle in the cold water. a some relief, but only for a short time. remained worked their way deeper and deeper into his flesh, like living things. lips began to swell. dripped from his mouth and his eyes ‘ren' of the. windfall. in his veins. And placer gold. He might have panned “1, wee lata im the afternoon Wolf, too, waa filled with the six or eight dollars’ worth @ 4@y. wasa and Gi This gave him ent Qerlant” comma peanite out With this much he was Riseeaeh! eand bar fi ray Way greater. As he found that nono of the things he feared did him any harm he became more and more bold in his And his appearance was changing, as well as his view of His round roly-poly body was taking a different form. He became lithe and yellow of his coat was a whitis! etrange longing to roam at | into the big world, mf a de oontinuad ie he ternoon when Ba. work his way up-stroam, cool water wh eben the tt Halt farther he went the poorer his pans Sten,” around Each day thereafter he went a lit- tle nearer the opening through which Kazan passed from the windfall into the big world outside. the time when he reached the open- ing and crouched there, blinking and frightened at what he saw, and now Gray Wolf no longer tried to hold him back, but went out into the sun- shine and tried to call him to her. It was three days before his weak ing enough to per- t on his longest hunt. a mile away ho killed his first rab- He remained beside it until guak, ‘The moon rose, big and golden, flood~ Ing the forests and plains and ridges weeks as these Sandy w with a ght almost like that of day. —when in the company of others, ~ Tt was the metallic click click Tt was a glorious night. And Ba-ree found the moon, and One afternoon he ran his eance Finally came Blood and saliva investigations. Two hours after Gray Wolf had retired to her nest under the wind- fall a quill had completely plerced his lip and began to prick his tongue desperation Kazan chewed viciously upon a plece of wood, and crumpled stroyed its power to do further harm. Nature had told him the one thing to do to save himrelf. day he spent in gnawing at wood and mouthfuls of earth and mold between his jaws, In this way the barb-toothed points of the quills were dulled and broken as they came through crawled under the windfall, and Gray Wolf gently licked his muzzle with o had his mother’s under-throat and hey beautiful grace of head. he was a true gon of Kazan, limbs gave signs of strength and masslven eves had grown sti mat his following her, and very quick- ly after that Ba-ree learned to love the sun, the warm air, and the sweet- ness of life, and to would have been had the big sray which he travelled lynx not come into their lives at that the windfall. All that night Gray Wolf watched a few colors. He had bent down close Re ray rot rat eee fo the edue of the water WHER OORIE: erite tT ster of ke See moon was sinking into the south and thing caught his attention on the wet war away from was at a bend, where the stream had nearness of it. Kasan As If it were but yesterday remembered the moonlit night when the lynx brought blindneas to Gray Wolf and destroyed her young, and when Kazan had avenged himself and his mate in his terrible fight to the death with their enemy. with that soft little handful of lite snuggling close up against her, Gray Wolf saw through her blind eyes the that night more vividly than ever and she quivered at every sound, ready to leap in the face of an unseen foe, to rend all flesh that was not the flesh of Kaztn. And ceaselersly, the slightest sound to his feet, read the dark- Most of that pass turned her blind face to prints of animals, Two had come ectaine Rare Chena Nomad wont forth her fret howl down to drink. They had stocd side oF,% lightning Bash throvgs Bie & had come into her own Are You Going Away for Vacation? When you go out of town for vacation you may find It is difficult and costly to provide yourse@f with the right sort of reading new world was his. He shot Into Sandy's by side, And the footprinta were Far fresh—-made not more than an hour Ra nee 40 Granines Oe away Ba-ree heard, but be did not or two before. A gleam of interest streak igtee™ Fy yes. He looked the bush. Blind, she had not had said good-by to the windfall— behind him and up and down the n wilt down upon the a stream, during the night Kazan went to the creek and found relief in its ice-cold CHAPTER XIV. A Shot on the Sand-Bar. LY and August of 1911 were months of great fires inthe A quarter of & mile away Gray, Welt ” awamp had caught the dreaded scent of man home of Kazan and Gray 1” the wind and was giving voloe to the butt of his gun and the leer, tragic picture of Why send to the city for novels at $1.25 or $1.50 each or buy them at a fancy price in some country store? You can supply yourself with the best, most delightful summer reading for six cents a week. By subscribing to The Evening World for the rest of the summer te novel each week. Not some old book a en able to sell, but the finest up-to-date fiction The next day he had what the forest people call “porcupine mumps.” His face was swollen until Gray Wolt would have laughed if she had been bringing him watched and guarded, He mistrusted the moving shadows. of a twig drew back his upper lip. His fangs gleamed menacingly when the soft air brought a strange scent. In him, too, the memory of the Bun Rock, the death of their first young and the blinding of Gray Wolf, had eivem birth to a new instinct, bulged like cushions. His eyes were When he went out into the day he blinked, for he could see scarcely better than But the pain was mostly gone, The night that followed he began to think of hunting, morning before it was yet dawn he brought a rabbit Into their den, you will secure a com country dealer has not by the foremost living authors, Bear this in mind, not only for yourself but for any of your friends who expect to spend their vacations in the country. The snapping Wolf, and the green valley look of amazement. } ; . , howl, and not until {ts last echoes to @ sudden look of amazement ‘ tend wait between tho two ridges, had escaped had dled away did Handy MoTrigKer the Sees tine Be sew te. collar abows’g the seas of devouring flame; but now, move. ‘Then he returned to the canoe, Ka ripe a ! ain't a wolf,” as they set forth on thelr wandering ‘Ok out his old gun, put a fresh cap | Cay 1A ‘Sanay Mateige adventures again, 1 re. low that the snow wae gone they that @ narrow creek lay be- tween them and the knoll on which the windfall wae ettuated. Gray Wolf and the next t was not long be- over the edge of the bank. gor—a dog!" fore their padded feet came tn con- For a week Kasam and Gray Wolf (To Be Continued.) Bs Mma 1S ea OU TN re a ae ay st 1 By James Oliver Curwood OHDDGDDOOOHHHHHDHHDIHODSO? 1OOOO01 desolation that had followed so closely ¥ after the plague and starvation 6f ginter that Gray Wolf had the preceding winter. the scent of man in the air. the south. Twenty miles beyond the to her she was alone ridge they struck the fire-killed for. Two or three minut into the west, and they had left not rab! d she lay flat on her belly & vestige of life or @ patch of green. » waiting for bim. In Blind Wolf could not see the biack- nts When sho wus ened world, but she sensed it. Gray Wolf was constantly It recalled to her, memory of that the air. Blindness had develo; and all of her wonderful next to infallible, . fret arpened and developed by heard the rattle of Sandy Mi ‘s eee they were seeking. strain of deg that wae in Ka- ancart, *ad, followed swiftly... DoiaE minutes after her warning Kasan stood at her side, bis & he had now become as deadly an Cane Sp, OM cove Pron eee bee he was using the Eskimo simply dog instinct to travel south- ward; in the face of fire it was wolf Po”, pnineue,t2 8 halt-cirole watlp spine grow atiff. © ridges and swung But blind Gray Wolf was country, striking @ course that would {hAn, the little red-eyed fox of ultimately bring them to the head- Fi tween the come up to Fort Smith with a pickle click bottle filled with dust and by midwin- hunting horde were rushing into by Une tine sandy wae crocs ae fast. The McFarlane was rich in free and miners by the “finds” richer than those of the 4, A,score of men at first—then # bun- from the prairie countries to the of the Mackensie Gel the Liard, came d made up to @ million oF two, Half an hour later Gray Wolf came Promptly lost them through 25z8 1 not to be trusted beyond one’s z iEEReE E E looked over the and made up hie mind that the time rture . He gambied a little, face Aolent to buy himeeit > and half Both @n old muzsie-loading rife. Sandy, Gray Wolf had done et eee for found the marks of their it was the best bis finances would 1.104 bea humor fl thing was against him, he It ly he worked his way up @ emall Hh mad tributary whose headwaters were fifty ] ‘Gold city” bie mind © na or sixty miles to the south and east, Here und there be found fairly good Boom be launched bis cenge and Weok after week he continued tO stream. Kasan was lapping up Sand, ards above thi t only occasionally di he "Sr ane wing nad been ore. After such disgusting Band: y, been usin, Pi dangerous Gray Wolf would have detected dan" Alone he was barmless, in ashore ‘ona white strip of sand, Tels fretarexened her too sense of pet. widened, and gave promise of at least sound and stopped drinking to face It, her eand. 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