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a ed ° - The Evening World Daily Magazine. Saturday, April 29, UNDER THE GREAT BEAR An Adventure Romance of the Frozen North PARP L DLL LLL ILL LPL PLLA By BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR pane AHR Of North of Riltys Three Bits. RRA TB Sih GNA AD Mi RNA AAENER, Moyytigt, 1908, by Strect & Smith) Do you remember “Me, Smith’ ana “The Lady Voc?” were among the moat popular stories TUE EVEN- ING WORLD has published oth were by the same author. She has writtena romance that is better than either of them. It is THE MAN FROM BITTER Roots By Caroline Lockhart It Will Be Next Week's Complete Novel in The Evening World “THE MAN FROM BITTER KUUTS” Is a love-and-adventure tale of the Big Outdoors A splendid mentat Spring Tonic, READ IT. ere WM un nhoa a ne nin outside, A southwest wind, warm, lantly, “you don't seem to credit me laden with) pungent forest. odors, With any sense of the fitness of nd brushed things. 1 tell VLL TRY You Out ALLRIGHT — d into an -hole, we gave up nped, and as we staked the and built a fire, dark snapped down on us like the closing of a door. It was still snowing When we arose in the morning—a steady, malevolent downfall, All that day it continued. At night the new fall reached past the knees, When one stood on the old drifis, And still it snowed, “Wow!” Sandy broke out, as he tested a pot of beang to see if they sre suiliciently cooked for supper. sOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS 1 Hedrick (whe tole t Holliday to wearols for h wre hia the Major, rei tries vainly Howe ant th “le we pt one uh them hell-tea ¥ whipped round a u frankly that sinee oe ew , oh?” gently against my fac Presently you fellows hauled me back down the { northeast winds on top uh this, eh? my eye fell wpon a portion of tio Fiver and turned me over to the doe i 5 And that, precisely, is what we f . ; ‘The following morning we ate break- CHAPTER XV. fast to the tune of volleying canvas « 1) and the whoosh of wind-tortured and the inystery of that boom- tor, Howe's little peculiarities have ing distu * pla ceased to bave any news value to me, jee was r ng in the Slave ; gh ag feel is dead and buried; is “ . ing jum of dirty-white er his failings be buried with him, ON'T do tt, Toni, a eee ote ee ee eee ie Rae and fell and crashed upon You've all by Y¥_ good to me, 5 e blended Mts. How ‘this Pollock. them xo." she admon- that raved up the valley of the Slave and the nolse of their jostling blendet (im HM nis Pollock ined sartioetiy. Yeu took wo eocuant o8 enn, Mather tat THAT DOESN'T with the sullen mutter of unleashed y ars to me ina dite D 4 ferent ght And have done enough, Seemed to madden it, and it would BOTHER HE Waters. 1 watched the turbulent tints monte iirsumie ite though I'm Without taking — any SWoop down and grip the tent and heaving until my eyes grew weaty of instead of two'—glanciig SUMteHe 'Y shake it furiously, bellying the root straining in the moonlight. then he stump that just failed of f it #9 Gut tll the guy ropes stood taut as back to bed. But at daylight [was Dine cettere oe macd t 1 don’t want yeu to go out into fiddlestrings and the tron pins up and down upon the river-banks jeg—“that won't hurt me in ar ee deadly cold again on my account, ereaked in the frogen ground, ‘Then it where Macbonough presently Joined tiegiar line of Work. T aMat Si oety them get through if they can and Would slap the canvas back at our me. if tell Pollock that L bave learned nothe it that miserable story from the heads with a vicious snarl, and go ‘A braw aight, yon," he sald. ing worth while—and lost @ foot 1 " ¥ from the Ghrieking away among the trees, mirty yearn | hae watched th learning. That's all. I'm op sptope. My bands are ciean, and spruce and poplar allke bowed thorn rivers cast off their wint rried to Th you wwe. 9 hee and for ail when L can get Meckly before that brass-hinged de- coats. Barrin’ thae Mackenale, thae n't class me as a be ein the spring, It will be a blow MON; bowed with rustlings and groan SI beats them for mad, noisy [ tell_ you that I apa, but I've been in purgatory-- 18% and ominous cracking. Housed of halt a doxen Tint going to eet ante det them {our small tent we could snap our cific Conat if old hain wilful way, Conuny, fingers at the elemental orzy—except ttebUL" I remonstrated, “good When it was necessary to chop fire- rE ou. bontammintecwhateeer Wood. ‘Then the mad winds delight. purpose doing it will be deucediy ¢d in picking Up vast snowfields and ee ee ane te Were te cealy casting them disdainfully in our faces, Mr abrond.t For twenty-four hours this endured. f e risks, I'm tired fore the river will be U ask a week, may- thi ina hurry tae be ye in sic he smiled. "Oh, no gt hurr: “TL know we're welcome work here ee you are in “there is no reas ‘i M gg oe ifn come out with ere; but my ie aveicoms Heres mum on the 1 1 , Howe em, ow, T know,” she Then it hushed suddenly in the chill fo be Heine took it for Mund weary Hut ie does’ Hour that comes between dawn and to be hom ready to d 1 so important as it did six Sunrise, and the frost came back to any ume yo ths ago. There's a limit to all 1 own. afinement, 7 “suit you gs. And when it's over with I | We passed Five Portages and took ‘4 wife, noo, sho mourned f alo: Chu: confeas that eyes on bri electric liv lat least have peace of mind, to the river again without coming on somely when first she cam’ hei be a heavenly luxury to be no their trail, According to Buck's and contentit lately wi’ her man a yor a prop and a sereen; to be Sandy's reckoning, we were due to Babe: Na. Til We-acrey tae eee (Hae : iver fighting against something come on them at any hour. But still inet ¢ ye Wut 1 canna Urpe ye tas fe tate, an't overcome; to be forever in We SaW no fresh sign. The snow that stay, Mistress Howe will dootless 228 You’ { lest one's ds discover blanketed the frozen Slave, ripped be glad ta gae awa’ frac yon"—he YOUTe a sand point one out pityingly. Into long, hard windrowa ‘by the Rodded toward the praveyaed base .c,.0tee y nothing of the perpetual dis- storm, bore no mark of the passing of the post where Howe rested in pver the the horror of standing by and of men, company with im: Lead Ng! AY another victim gmited ¢ ving him become a drug-sodden | Two days past the Portages we the North. “Though speakin® ma Sl nD halted in a sheltered bend at noon. rivate mind, T canna ace whaue hia xeruon you'd only thought of that two The cold struck home to the very aise was ither than a blessin’ tae "yay | rg Oy guid nave bitten iy marrow of our bones when motion himngel” and a’ concerned. And he'll g Buta, tongue the moment the un- ceased, We did not tarry long, but sleep on yon quiet knoll just as sound- junmod th sls words Were out. I'd neither brewed a pot of tea und gobbled fy on Gans tamil vale hopped in nor license to reproach or criti: Jerked | venison and baking-powder “IL hae thought of a simple way for sical chords ner, She Was a free agent, and bannock till our hunger was ap- yo a’ tan mak Athabasea Landin’,” ; Mac continued, after a minute, Aa TAKS. totes odd Tdidna think o't” before. Yo wadna wait for it, last time ye were qine® Fitiog t here, if yo remember? ‘Thao boat, ¥O properly app! ken, comes frae thie Mackenate posts, hone edistuoe 4 soon as thas Jake is weel open, and "Tat there for 1 runs uy tae tha thinking; and my. of the pleasantest. company, and to's, ; started for the hili eran ” h langer. "Twill siave Lake, to behold .. eave up wi’ a mighty groan one o’ the steamer that ty thew daya, and this warm wind frao Sau ,fequcamer (hat was to car the sooth'll eat thas heart oot of thag Foun hen I reached the top ha and pile th fragments alang yh me from her seat on an REA EAE KO. GEOR, CGMC ana 2S As we laid hold of the over- in the mood to take exception turned toboggan to right it and stow her the words or my right to the remnants of our dinner, a long. Ahuin tab het drawn howl cut the frost-hardened rast afraid then,” she whis- Stllness—an animal ery that plumbed Sper ale thought he was a the depths of misery in its sobbing . wail, Our four huskies, squatting on their haunches tn the snow, pointed | noses skyward and voiced an echo of ancholy tart in the morning, 1 stop arguing the sdom or necessity of it, and go to ¢ melanch 1. 1 threw down fmuuntlet to ONT 1 ub when he made that other break, do since he has taken it up in h rnest I'm gol » keep him from ey belong to them fel- y Delong with’ Pollock—if eT, We must be right on top of ‘em BnPeconneek cre Wits “Round that next point,” Sandy I'm going to you may as Ww wait a bit, and hae easy passage, ‘The 1 tentatively. shook his head 1 howl that way lake'll no hold my Ranthe done, forth aor cropping of Fook a Hittle way down the saped both hande in hor lap. ne : ; other side, L wasn't in the mood for ucrcrnes both hanes tat f when wa slipped carefully failed to stir Chub out of his apathy, “I remember, all right," Buck re- to lag. Howe flew wild, cursed me up —“sufforin'. Mackinaw!" Sandy ox... )iat would beat pecgiins canoe friendly talk with her, of all persons MSTA ha inate. Hen te s set. Sround the bend—carefully, because He hunched over his fire, reaching plied. “And I sabe that it's right and one side and down the other, and claimed, “Seo what he's got!" Seeeetst L rettocted suet, (niles of at that moment; but short of acting into the oold, im expres. WE Were nowise anxious to become out once or twice to replenish it from proper for us to keep goin’ till we #wore he'd quit me cold if I didn't ‘The husky had dug Up a man's Taflected. take the hike a surly boor, I couldn't avoid It. ni be glad of the chance, go | : ched tho hole and looked veh beside her. Nuntarily Tdrew back at Jean's face Nxhted when T told her ivy heen watching the boat . Kindied a roaring fire in the jasper on our hands. We can't quit @Way ‘from ‘mo, left what grub and the sight; a shiver that was not of the be Poor a9 neha erg ane piel dey through the glass: ashe smiled. y habiturtoa tirwets if they were 3 desperate enough a small heap of sticks beside him. know for sure if he kets through—or keep up with him. We got thie far, mitten, Benet ed the thouishta and. feel- £0" such. work-—th Was no sight Not till we had lined the hard snow don't. But I'm Hke you, I don't eee 42d I was getting worse all the timg == We appri a of the real woman beneath aw Of them on trail, | We drew close to floor of our tent with a layer of spruoy how ‘we're goin’ to do it with this 40-0h, well, bo almply took my gun down. in SUL a hag 4 after coded bank and moved at a boug! ectually as ¢ ft 1 watching for them to lit n that had come to t went down and found a t one odd, ling she sheet-iron stove, and finally 64 him, and we can't make time if-we blankets he couldn't take on one to- cold shook me for an instant. I fc Peay mea Nabod appear. It ‘occurred to me that we sayed to move Chub into ite com: take him along, and Weraint got out. bOKgAN, and this dog outfit, and pulled myaif to look axain, aa dia Sandy | think she longed for homo more than without, Can you reallee thet mene m, were fe ly to keep in the cpen, if fortable zone, did we know the full git enough to split up—it wouldn't be Ot. and Buck. There was no doubting the %6 had admitted, without,” Can you teallaa that a two half-hour after, al thes were camped near by. Buck and extent of his pain, and the hopeless- gate." “That was at noon; snowing Ike evidence of our eyes. Silently, woe AS’ MacDonough foretold, the heavy mn . At the first tre Sandy were of the same tr | h dd when I ness that must have chilled his soul. ““rhen Sandy stepped into the breach Plazes, too. I thought I'd lle low till plucked the anow shoes from our feet, warm winds and the flood of water sof it We turned aside, and He tooked up again in the same Va. y16" had Metered cithout Torrent morning, and then ty to poke along. and, using one a# a shovel, attacked from. rivers und y SF eieaeie cuniparkan ¢ caling dual slope took up our cant way when I told him to come while Buck und I reviewed the situ. The storm got worse, ao I atuck here. the drift. In twenty minutes we had honeyeombed the lake te yes and mushed away from the post S's era the edge of a Liege of gaunt 1a our tent. IT reached a hand to ation, “1 tell yuh," he said, “there's Then that Arctic zephyr broke loose, cleared away the snow and were look. Slave arose and shook itself, So-lone” to Mac and Peplars, whence we could watch the help him. He got to his feet stiffly, 4 cabin on the river bottom about ten 4nd after that, somehow, I couldn't tng upon tho stiffened features jew wallowed on its surface in siz You will," T said a bit bluntly, and set myself to making a cigarett xlanced at me quickly, and then her eyes wander back to the ap- spoke dy and | drew ly to our morning Ruck, S. nd tho 4 th a briet H is aching steamer, who were about. rive ike a very decrepit old man, took a 4,6 Rat he get around very well. Every time I Howe, Ho lay on his side, his head fragments that the southwest wind Pt pb ptew men wh Five minutes later Sandy called our step and collapsed with a groan, Fontyentio Truce deat yin puckt stirred away from the fire T froze 4 resting naturally on one doubled-up swooped and blew far to the forrison Is going out with began again, in a moment, “I persuided the doctor to persuade y ome, The poor woman has ars in this hole,” drift was soon over; as A attention to the dogs “Hell!” sald Sandy, “Feet froze!" 4 i . v very ¢ rm, as though he had gone pe north if Mt them sharp-nosed erit- We carried him tnside, took off hig {hat {rapped down this way about PeSigehine: oo Chait ately cote: fue traliome . far ant ul reach the «rent HE sky was overcast when suid in an undertone, parka and stripped the moccasins off jor camp there. to have had a fixed idea that if the “Gave out, quit his dogs, lald down lake spr beneath soft spring are aint eay Hut with ase Xeeption the four were his feet, The sudden transition from “tr now him." Buck responded, fire went out that would be my fin- to sleep and never woke up,” Buck skies. Wo took to casting anxious ae ted’ teeth : 2 sniffing the air uneasily, now and intense cold to that warm interior 4 ‘ * ish, I guess I was about ready to epitomized his ending. “Well, he died glances in the direction from which spopemarked Inanely. a breeze sprang up and then breaking into subdued growl- seemed to overpower Chub, He grew (2nd I knew ho had a winter camp iit. Boast Wie Bit romey te ohay.” the Mackenzie 1 would, appear, 2,58? can't see how the doctor will seattered the clouda, as it ings. Lump, unconscious, and we hurried to fOmewhere in, thie country, ‘but I Pee ttncre ts tot ‘An hour later we turned our faces even climbing a lilit back of the poat Ket along while she's away," Jean con- had done the previous day. |, “I wonder now If they're gettin’ a wash und dress his feet before he re- Hvar was to the place. “, Chub stopped and began at once to back toward Fort Resolution, the body to sw tho rippling water WIth titative tele nil, Moliges that fat, ‘ he sun it seomed HMC on them fellers’ camp?" Buck covered. They were In fearful shape, | “Well, I have,” said Bandy, ‘1 | Chub stopped and began at one lashed on the same toboggan that lass jusscive IRHe man. T wish Soo ena) eine oF tha sun med’ pondered. He bared one hand, mois- but we did the best we could, Know right where It is, We can pull nod. 1 suppose ho was terribly ox: coomted our grub, mn far creeks and nameless lakes” for all these ~ yle; grow te VON tened a finger and held it up. “An ine in't it flerce?" Buck remarked, UP there in the mornin’ and one of us hausted by his long vigil. His bew Nn ame bands of Indians laden with under the tol ‘ke @i8- stant served to give him the direction “May! y can take #0 ‘ub and hold out with Sank forward, and Sandy had to tho ‘ set 4 a wrved to give © directiot ybe he bad it comin’, but he sure © iome grub and hold out wi ti the winter's catch of furs, wh their way," I said shortly. POH e, as business ta a Of the Wind—what little there was, got a tough deal, Froze—holy smoke! thia frozen-footed pilgrim while the catch him by the arm, oF he would CHAPTER XVII. they discharged their “debt to hey wouldn't thank you for want- cloudin'-up business * ite put bis hand back into the fur- Ears, cheeks, fingers, frost-bit all Test goes up the river. It's a solid have toppled over on the red-hot 4 Ancient and Honorable Company of 12% to do something for them. See, aul 8 ty gave warning: ined mitt with a wry face, and beat round, It'll be a wonder if he don't Dullt shack, with a big stone fire- stove. He waked up long enough for HE weeks dragged by In Adventu ‘Treading in and out of that boat will soon be at the river wh the nin's WH forget U yr softly against hia thigh, A min- lose that right foot slick and clean, Place, A feller could be mighty com- us to fix into a bed the robes he had T endless procension, Cooped Hudson's Bay"cand nme there ware mouth. Let ls go do! "TER } off. Them clouds'll p ute's exposure in that temperature Here, he's comin’ alive. Give him fortable there for a while. I guess been using. We added some blankets ~ who came with he but hk She rose to her feet and ate; ta little war ay; P ik yuh won't have t' be all winter catch- and wrapped him up well. Then the pelthin ATOR WAIN WY TOR: Te tend talon ack ara winter an) ihe Iadee ia! lant ent Reees 4 to numb the finger, some uh that hot tea,’ that stomachs and tale gon of the storms til further orders.” . You and Sandy watt here a Warmed clear through once more, In’ up t' Howe. T don't see how a rest of us turned in. ‘The bottomland around the post bes down alone," she told me disapprov- Mt held off, and during that jitie bit” he commanded. “I'm gol with the smart of the fteutcbite some. walkin’ skeleton ke him ean buck Sandy halted us and glanced along howled vociferously about Jaine vetted with, lodkens umber: IMgly, “as to have you come along and Bwe put thirty and thirty-five to scout’ around." what allayed by the grease Buck had the trail much longer.” the river bank, “This here's the flat the post and the biting calms that less canoes lined the river bank. And tlk fo me in that tone of vole.” - between evening fires. Always shortly he was back, beckoning to Tubbed on, Chub sat up uncertainly “By gosh! we can do that, can't that cabin's on," he sald. “Tain't 48 folowed them--days when tho frigid !n the fullness of time a Hudson's “AIL right," LE answered ungraci- eighteen-inch trail ran before us, We started toward him, but he and drank’a little tea, But even over we? said Buck. And there the mat- far up the river as I thought, I don't ay Bay man passed the word that the ously second day out from Resolution motioned to us to bring the do the steaming cup Sandy held to his ter rested, until auch time as Chub belleve we've come five miles, much “Fr seared the lung tlasues Ike the Woe Lis funnel smoke could be | Was on my feet, but I sat down itched a night-camp in a place Following his d, We wound among Ups he nodded and swayed sleepily. awakened and told us what he knew, less ten. But this is sure the flat, See fumes of sulphur-—we grew very ho in the distance, MacDonough @8ain, and she st they, too, had tarried, Buck the trees, tangling the dogs more — “Dead for sleep, ain't yur? Sandy It was too late to start on a ten-mile any place closer by where we can weary of the etornal frost and snow, hlinself confirmed the report with a me with a peculiar, up @ bone as we cleared aA than once in the underbrush and free- asked. move that afternoon, get up, Buck? I went to it once or ang telescope, ‘Then I went in search of # and hungered for the alghts and ) for the tent, glanced at it and ing them impatiently, but coming at “Can't hold my eyes open,” Chub — Not till after 10 o'clock that night twice, but always from the other end. unde of & 1 1 ian Chub, and found him sunning him~ mmy, = you~you make me- Mt out to me, A bit of hairy skin lust to the edge of a heavy growth of muttered drowsily. “Let me He down, did Chul arouse from his deep slum- I guess We can't get up here—not ®UD) @ less rigorous land, self in front of Mac's house. Ho did tired,” she flung out and turned away, lung to one end. young spruce, out of which an odor like a good fellow. ber, Even then it was only a partial With the toboggans, anyway. We tarried, nevertheless. While not much resemble the jaunty mortal | could almost have laughed at the d looking down at mpatient expres- be that?’ he asked, “Tye know of burning wood floated to meet us. Sandy eased him back on @ robe, awakening, and he would. have A short survey proved the truth of the winter and ita blasting tempera- who had come to us on Charteris delicious way she brought out that bit Ys happenin’ to them extra dogs Buck stopped. and spread another over htm. — He slipped back into temporary oblivion that last assertion. So we got in mo- tures endured we shrank from the (reek— outwardly, that is, no amount of slang, but T didn't have opportun- took along? They're killin’ ' Jasper yuh want worst is in blinked a moment, then roused to if I had permitted, But I was keen to tion again, creaking over snow that certain mardahips a passage to tho Of, hard knocks could olter bin ine ity. even Mf T had been tn @ laughing to feed the others, as they & he said, as we anchored the speak my name, Know what had transpired, and I in- atill whined like distant violins as P pe grained optimism; be simply refused humor, which, alas! was the reverse . Bright idea—for them pilgrims, I took @ look at him, He is "What is it? IT bent over him, sisted that healt up and eat the food the toboggans slipped along. Two ter world by dog-team would en- to ty cast down’ for any length of ef thy mood. She stepped on a small, fitves takin’ time to hunt, — Kinda harmless." “How about!—how a we had kept warm for him, Once hundred yards further the steep bank tall. Beyond the dreary monotony of tine round stone and lurched forward, and Well,” Tb the huskies, though.” Buck led the way into the grove “Getting better, gan, "this spring to cateh her lest she’ fall tough luck fo thoroughly awake, he was hungry ran out into a sparsel: timbered existence in that white waste, and We were two, if not thr Jays be- Without making ther explanation. “We took him to the pe enough to justify my insistence. slope. We turned off the river and ay * w r rouses the wandering spirit straightened up, and [—[ find them. Buck uluted. But we He fire blazed in the heart of it. gays hell pull throu Pe When he had finished eating he asked pulled up the bank. After a few rods fee nai i (Sikes ‘ a te in imen ; ; j ; wily 1 stood there like a crawling up. Harring accident, anket hooked up on two saplings és siahate Ruck to roll him a ecigarette—the tips of hard lugging we stopped to let tho ord to people, there “Which ta to 6 returne , holding her tightly by the arms were craw eiviar naPec ane a, 500 ABRUNRS od—g004," he whispered, In ten BR PP about to pick staring blankly down into. the f following & of his fingers were Dlistered from dogs take breath was no urgent reason for our facing quick that you are ree break, we Chub sat with his back to th nta ; : nd pull for home with the addy seconds he was fast asleep, His ster- eyes with thelr heavy. la torous breathing rose and fell: occa- bape con frost bite trail they must pe nd he then began to talk ~~ Sometimes I wonder whether man the long trail again. So we gave ear UP. should overtake thom before they trivance, huddled ¢ to the small giona re i. ‘igible Of his own accord, moves across the chessboard of life ARTA RGuent . That,” T admitted, “is about the Fora long time we stood like that, and reached Lake Atha 4 flame. A toboggan, with what food analy e a eettee A gible “erm glad Pierce isn't going under,” according to some predestined plan, ° MacDonough’s persuasion and ize of it. What, if Linay ask, do you all at once the red blood flashed Imto A Right the eloids huddled he hud, wax drawn’ close heside him Ponds. The three of us held our peace yo qld hesitatingly. “That's worried inexorabe and unchanging, or merely Uagered at Resolution tilt open water purposs doin tier cheeks and surged Up to the wavy over id, and as regularly seattered and th ur dogs aquatted sol. “Cathig complicutes Mattern’ T nald a heap, I'm no killer, You under- blunders on from day to day without should solve the transportation probs “Under the amsta alr on ni 1 dropped her in t jorni Sandy still held to emnly a step or two beyond. Io did gt jagt. “ile needs ea matters” T as this thing, Hedrick. It's my other guidance than ties tn his own Jom slowly, "1 may ns wel ead for ai ina then throw it v4 th tl the niorrow would Bet look up until we spoke. Even Yet't don'ts: ' men care as, ss to outwit you and Jan at gtrength of purpose. Why did Howe tha witttaniantadmids Cae y " wk proudly and her glistening eyes By Bey ade iit nattered When he did f-don't think he compres hie he ote i nem ee Gene If | was smart enough to get 6 Chub one dog more than th Late in April the winter nded sud- understand, — T spoise het Mine unWwaveringly mt feacept to vindicate hinas a hended the significance of our press Wok after him and follow Howe. Of Gwar with It, whye-sou. know | harness for? bdo not know, and @enly--Kave Up the ghost, ay It were, ough about passage, \ On, Jean, Jean!" found my tongue fr pro} for they would hold enee there. He was so near done that travel alone it ie kaite thee tote ae Would. But f' wasn't prepared to never will know, but that unimpor- i a last wild assault on the fort How about it ut last river, They must, unie he if his brain to lance OF Us at oem, ane AR IE alls him to do so, nit murder; when that’s neces- tant ciroumst 4 our ¢ up For days a gale of wind raged out n n 1 de Don't Tommy,” she whise of self-preservation forsook all it probably Lous as Bl By, td tite to thee, of our affair sary for me to win out I'm willing to the Slave yas no place in of the north, All outdoors was a t p tho Slave, pored, "“F t not now, Watt utterly, And if we became When the North has a man down it Uh 2 i o Know that he Bt throw up my hands and own myself either teain for the dog; therefore he mist of fiercely gyrating snow par Butt thir iw t ound, their progress also must strikes ity h blows. And Chap Unreuwh: He may be in Chub's con- peaten, I'm done now, of course, followed at his own sweet will, cast- ticles. ‘Then the wind died « igh ' t W ‘ vd ares for a ( Was down—almoat down and out. Ila eet Ouran, Buck & meal sity rotten business ['ve been up ing in wide circles in quest of rabbit and at sunrise there was a new fool tp" won “ t any chotee but to Bt before we reached Five Por- bloodshot eyes and blackened cheeks, 4 Uh Course” Huck answored, “That's nyway, I guess, T've been doing traila and other caniny business de- in the alr—a soft, balmy touch on ind MacDonough 8 1 enide like tie cam when the the hopeless hunch of his shoulders, Hable to overtake the best of ‘em on gome thinking, the time I've been nis broth 44, Buck one's cheek. Under foot the snow wins, and we coun fa ‘ 1 f sume did til ‘specially travellin’ alone, But humped over that. flre—-wonder how atte a new antic of lost its saltlike harshness, grew damp und dese i peak Tand looked U4 can't tell how far nor fast a tong it was? Seems to me I apent a at nd mushy. Black, steaming patches 1 y it was not yet t ve Tani ko when he's strung out, and igetime crawling on my hands and tha dk vin'snow of earth appeared on hillsides that jay a six-t wound here if yout We went soberly \ He say’ some x, Howe has sure <ime. Last time L Knees, poking up t dry wood 1 e grinned. “Wish faced the south, Puddles of water feito 1 We it at \ 1 found the big front fire r from Ler Where is Howe! saw him he looked like he might lay and Keeping the di y from my a wh as much to gathered on tho tee-sheet that im- 4 ba r 1 r er deserted, 1 in an unweveris 1 n't know." The voice nu down any minute, and now, grub, and sitting hat: Are-clete ame in t country ag one prisoned the Slave, And when a crow tikes ; reainat tie! 1 $ shoulder and the cloudrift fiunmed closer of a man beaten, cowed. judgin' from the gait he's b hit ting ko by Inches + but a man uh them huskies.” swooped out of the sky one day and ‘« nat you her mnee mores without pereepiible mo nothing further 1 red up the river, | would be a mite su hard) sometin wonder {f He was makin ow fly ata alighted on aw post of the burned personally, Chile! t rere How did vou know what Twas go. he lowering iit opie t s words might have ¢ prised it e beat ux ¢ to Atha paniac is atill hitting It up* Oh, great rate, diggin lump of @tockade, with & rasping caw! caw! Bu ! t yonder, ¢ Tasked Hi the in auton , basea Landin’. Yuh mind now I suppose you want to know how willows as if he ed all the C4W! We knew for a certainty that n 1 sr the in devil," 4 “ioup and hit the trail two years. arted) company, a@ e@hort, treasures of do psentivy he Spring was come, x ‘ Ny Le autckly out of my reach. tying di Ru He a when his hed was all cut and + tale. ‘ged, and jook wn at the hole, A Week after that T waked tn tho : back at me from the door ' 1 wis we ered, and him just as crazy as he iat thie aida of where all ead cocked sidewise ina comteal Meht to hear a muffled, grinding roar fags way halt 1 to the kK . ne yuh kK ow rapits Five Portages way. Then he thrust lia snout down that [ could not understand. Saal f ei he hw f Ye 4 probably remember, too, froxe ¢ Ly 8. Got B é igely a mo- and listened, and the sound inc bound ¢ I \¢ you ou a” she said any dire NV L that when he went to pieces he went side ’ ba . me. $n volume hike the rumble of 4P- whole A 1 sof Pactod solidly eainet ar ell be ab r suddenly." | reminded. “He'll go till . eault W all proaching train, Still the fi heven ! ey Phe . wos @ 41 xtood of white. We ’ Int ' # nerves ¢ maacies to and of tre the dog was no more not occur tome, ET got out of bed nthe da \ wondering if had really eI Eee j Eee ea a r effort lie down and began to limp. River try anowshoring vwas, and the seat. and went over to a window that 4 poked tentatively at the soft Kissed her Angew to me oF TE di and when Sandy nix a track aie Nie why | want with about half sour foot raw fesh” tered trees voces of brusa did cpened on hinges. earth with tha 4 f rutch, Was Just a beautiful dream, Plodding @ little way ahead, almost Even the setting up of the tent to keep on.” 1 couldn't stand the pace and began not obs i winging it bach, | poka@jJ my bead Oh, hang tt! he exclaimed petu (THE END) mae