Show on of K A MAN DEVIL ut synopsis pa wa part sto old baaree baree meeting with an r bla alt edict b v young y fighting bard the aniag suddenly plunged into it are creek badly buffeted drowned baaree baree 1 10 flung on the bank but the destroyed his sense ot K t tern atlon and he Is lot lo t lonely II 11 I 1 ij nunry for many days his r is OB of fear and distress meets various creatures of wild and goes through a h he Is learning and more he trays into ili trapping brounda ot prevot nd tepees wounds baaree baree with a rifle but he es apes baaree baree recovers de covers and learns iture s secrets determined to catch baaree baree and tine him and tries again baaree baree is strongly drawn to the girl but till tears man baaree baree makes friends with the beaver chapter V continued 10 R nay be that saw him it be that erv soon the story of U adventure was known by all the of beaver town for when baaree baree came upon eating hla supper of alder bark that evening ahls ground to the list na and for the first time they noses at least baaree baree sniffed and plucky little sat ite a rolled up sphinx that was the baal cementing of their friendship on baaree baree 8 part ne capered about for a few moments tell how much he liked him and that be greit chums fail joint talk he make a move 13 lie resumed his supper but he 1 ns a companionable looking little fel lov for all that and baaree baree was hap cb per than he had been since the day ib t left the old w windfall 3 that friendship even though it out appeared to be quite one sided ns decidedly fortunate for falen baaree baree was at the pond he al kept as near to as pos able when he could find him one day he was lying in a patch of grass lal asleep while busied him tilt in a clump of alder snooty a few birds away it was the warning crack of a beaver tall chit fully roused baaree baree and alien another and mother like pistol shots he jumped tp everywhere beavers were scurry tog for the pond just then came out of the al c as and hurried as fast as his short tit legs would carry him toward the titer he had almost reached the abd when a lightning flash of red before burbes eyes in alic sun and in another instant apaka sew the he fox had fastened ibis sharp fangs in s throat baaree baree heard his little friend s agonized cry he heard the frenzied flap flap 1 flap of ganv tails and his blood pounded suddeth with the thrill of and rage g i As swiftly as the red fox himself barea darted to the rescue he was u big and as as the fox and then he struck it was a ferocious snarl that pierrot laught have heard on the farther side ot the pond and his teeth sank like hikes into the shoulder of saillant sa ilant the fox was of a breed of forest highwaymen which kills from balad he was not a fighter when it time fang to fang unless cornered ia so fierce and sudden was barbes assault that took to flight elmost as quickly as he had begun his attick on baaree baree did not follow him but went to who lay halt in the mud and in a curious rrt of way gently baaree baree nosed him id after a moment or two got P on his webbed feet while fully j I 1 twenty or beavers were making tremendous fuss in the water near e shore after this the beaver pond seemed re than ever like biome to baaree baree chapter VI while lovely was shudder E over her thrilling experience un the rock while pierrot still of ed grateful thanks in his craters r her deliverance and baaree baree was be more and more a fixture at the aver pond bush was a little scheme of his own P at post lac baan about forty north and west had jl n factor at lac baan for seen 1 tra in the company s books down ae was counted a remark J I 1 ly successful man the expense of u post was below the average and A annual report of furs always among farst after B e kept on file in the raaen onice M wie notation which said gets e fit of a dollar than any other v bort god s lake SP ali new why this was so t t aled him capao the i br 11 ahl vaa na belr in th nane sinisterly rf e sow of tepee fires or spoken ft tto aher d een the winds might j u to the ears of bush malag f alm they ared him they hated w im un n ly tho iii ti and tan y decd of starvation ta 8 llna thu bush sic I 1 iron cd tle fingers of his to hi the more y lt seemed y f mm d they respond to mas as a roul hadde ln v te h iv 0 o ot a balte which rejoiced in and here with the raw ness on four sides of ahlm aits an new 0 o end the big corn hand him ii had made by JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD 0 doubleday pace co service him kang of a in which there waa little law except his own and in return he gave back to the corn pany bales and bundles of furs beyond their expectation it was not for them to have suspicions they were a thousand or more miles away and dollars counted gregson might have told gregson was the investigating agent of that district who visited once each year lie might have reported that the indians called capao because he give them only halt price tor their furs he might have told the company quite plainly that he kept the people of alie trap lines at the edge of starvation through every month of the winter that he had them on their knees with ills hands at their throats putting the truth in a mild and pretta way and that he alwaes and a woman or a girl indian or halfbreed living with hm at the post but gregson enjoyed his visits too much at lie baan alwaes he could count on two weeks of coarse pleasures and in addition to that his own womenfolk at home avore a rich treasure of fur that came to them from one evening a week after the ad venture of Ic peee and baaree baree under he rock sat under the glow of an oil lamp in his store 11 for six weeks there had been in him a great unrest it was just six weeks ago that pierrot biad brought Ise on her arst visit to lac baan since Mr Taggart had been factor there she had taken his breath away since then he had been able to think of noth ing but her twice in that ix weeks he had gone down to pierrott Pier rots cabin tomorrow lie was going again marie the slim cree girl over in hi cabin he had forgotten just as a dozen others before marie had slipped out of his memory it was now he had never seen anything quite so beautiful as pierrott Pier rots girl audibly he cursed pierrot as he looked at a sheet of paper under his hand on which for an hour or more lie had been making notes out of worn and dusta company ledgers it was pierrot who stood in his way pierrot s father according to those notes had been a full blooded frenchman therefore pierrot as half french and was quarter french though she was so beautiful he could have sworn there was not more than a drop or two of chappe awayan wayan crop ojibway dog rib any hm there would have been no rouble at all in the matter he would have bent them to ills power and would have come to his caln caan as marle came six months ago but here was the accursed french or it and were different e sled and his hands i hart tighter after all was not n r would even ass a am SS m 0 P berrot n and an a chehad made wanderers elsts and outcasts of or a score of others who had lost his favor lat ette coss was put besth t had tremendous POW for ev eved arree cree arl gin who hated ahlm and S assy s ae K vs ew SS crt exl td cheatta alto hc tl A taw w twice be fore he cave that TO S M hr w thrust and 0 aou ess whee pi ir eirot had S Foft hast time he had seen pierrot he had made an honest proposition he would marry yes enthat he had told pierrot so he had to d pierrot that when the latter w ahls ther in law be would pay him double price for furs llad arad had stared witti that strange stunned look in bis rice like a man dazed by a alow from a club and so if he did not get without trouble it would all be pierrott Pier rots fault tomorrow cart would start again tor the half breeds country and the next day I 1 berrot would have an answer for him ush again when he went to bed until the next to ahn last day pierrot said nothing to about hid passed between him and the fictor at lac baan ihen he told her he Is a bearta man devil he said when he had finished 1 I would rather see you out there with her de id and he pointed to the tall spruce under which the princess moth er lay had not uttered a sound but her aies had grown bigger and barler and there was a lush in her cheeks which pierrot had neer seen there before she stood up when he had done and slie seemed taller to him beer had she looked quite so much like a woman and pierrot s eyes were deep shadowed with fear and uneasiness as lie watched her while she gazed ot into the northwest toward lac pain she was wonderful this slip of a girl bomin her beauty troubled him lie had seen the look in bush me taggarts Tag garts ees he had heard the thrill in voice he had caught the desire of a beast in me s face it had frightened him at first but now he was not fright he was uneasy but bis hands were clenched in his heart biere was a smoldering alre at last guined and came and sat down beside him again at his feet he Is coming tomorrow ma cherie he said n hat shall I 1 tell him the willows lips were red her ees clione but she did not look up at her aither nothing except that you are to say to him that I 1 am the one to whom he must come for what he seas pierrot bent over and caught her smiling the sun went down his heart sank with it like cold lead from lac baan to pierrott Pier rots cabin the trail cut within halt a mile of the beiver pond a dozen miles from where pierrot lived and it was here on a twist of the creek in which had caught fish for baaree baree mide his camp for the night only twenty miles of the jour no could be made by canoe and as was the last stretch afoot his camp was a simple affair a few cut balsams a light blanket a small fire before he pre pared his supper the factor drew a number of copper wire anarea from his small pack and spent half an hour in setting them in rabbit runways this method of securing meat wis far less arduous than carrying a gun in hot weather and it was certain half a dozen snares were good for at least three rabbits and one of these three was sure to be young and tender enough for the frying pin after he had placed his snares set a skillet of bacon over the coals and boiled his coffee of all the odors of a camp the smell of bacon reaches farthest in the forest it needs no wind it drifts on its own wings on a still night a fox will sniff it a mile away twice that far it the clr Is in the right direction it was this smell ot baron that came to baaree baree where he lav in his hollow on top of the beaver dam since his experience in the canyon and the death of he had not bared particularly well caution had held him near the pond and he had ched almost entirely on crawfish this new perfume that came with the night iland roused his hunger but it wag elusive now he could smell it the next instant it was gone he left the dim and began questing for the source of it in the forest until after a time he lost it altogether had finished frying ills bacon and was eat ing it enter the villain bush me Tag gartl how does baaree baree fit into tho situation TO BE CONTINUED X Z X X |