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Show 4 TIW BINGHAM NEWS SON OF KAZAN U JAMES OLIVER one of the clearly Impressed trams la the snow. When he rose to bis feet there was In his face the look of one who had made an unpleasant discovery. "A black wolf!" he repeated, and shrugged his shoulders. "Hah! Leme , Is a fool. It Is a dog." And then, aft-er a moment, he muttered In a voice scarcely louder than a whisper, "ner dog." All that day Bush McTaggart fol-lowed a trail where Baree hfld left traces of his presence. Trap after trap he found robbed. And from the first disturbing excitement of his discovery of Buree's presence his humor changed slowly to one of rage, and his rage ' Incrensed as the day dragged out. He was not unacquainted with four-foote-robbers of the trap-line- , but usually a wolf or a fox or a dog who had grown adept In thievery troubled only a few traps. Hut In this case Baree was traveling straight from trap to trap, and his footprints In the snow showed that he stopped at euch. There was, to McTaggart. almost a human devlllshtiess to his work. He evaded the poisons. Not once did be stretch his head or paw within the danger stone of u deadfall. For apparently no ' reason whatever he had destroyed a splendid mink, whose glossy fur lay WNU Benrlee Chapter XIII 22 The trap-lin- of 1'lerre Eustach ran thirty miles straight west of Lac Bain. It was not us long a line as Pierrot's had been, hut It was like a main artery running through the heart of a rich fur country. It had belonged to Pierre Eustach' father, and his grandfather, and his greatgrand-father, and beyond that It reached, Pierre averred, back to the very pulse of the finest blood In France. The nooks at McTaggart's post went back snly as far as the end of It, the older evidence of own-ership being at Churchill. It was the finest game country between Reindeer lake and the Barren Lands. It was In December that Baree came to It. Again he was traveling southward In a slow and wandering fashion, seek-ing food In the deeo snows. The KIs-tlse- Kestln, or Creat Storm, had come earlier than usual this winter, and for a week after It scarcely a hoof or claw was moving. Every trapper from Hudson's bay to the country of the Athabasca knew that after the Big Storm the famished fur animals would be seeking food, and that traps and dcadfulls properly set ' and baited stood the biggest chance of the year of being filled. for his special use. He followed In the factors snowshoe tracks, and In the third trap killed a rabbit. Starved for many days, he was tilled with a wolfish hunger, and before the day was over he robbed the bait from a full dozen of McTaggart's trups. Three times he struck polsonbalts venison or caribou fat In the heart of which was a dose of strychnine, and each time his keen nostrils detected the danger. The second day, being less hungry and more keenly alive to the haled smell of his enemy, Baree ate less but wns more destructive. McTaggnrt was' not as skillful as Pierre Eustach In keeping the scent of his hands from the traps and "houses," and every now and then the smell of hlin was strong In Bnree's nose. This wrought In Baree a swift and definite antagonism, a steadily Increasing hatred where a few days before hatred was almost forgotten. The dog did not add two and two together to make four; he did not go back step by step to prove to himself that the man to whom this trap-lin- e belonged was the cause of all his griefs and tro-ublesbut he did find himself pos-sessed of a deep and yearning hatred. McTaggart wns the one creature ex-cept the wolves that he had ever scattered In worthless bits over the snow. Toward the end of the day McTaggart came to a deadfall In which a lynx had died. Baree had torn the silvery dank of the animal until the skin was of less than half value. McTaggart cursed aloud, and his breath came hot. The third day McTaggart did not return to Lac Italn, but began a cau-tious hunt for Baree. An Inch or two of fresh snow had fallen, anil as If to take even greater measure of ven-geance from his man-enem- y Baree had left his footprints freely within a radius of a hundred yards of the cabin. It was half an hour before Mc- Taggart could pick out the straight trail, and he followed this for two hours Into a thick bankslan swamp. Baree kept with the wind. Now and then he caught the scent of his pur- - suer; a dozen times he waited until ' j the other was so close he could hear Some cf them set out over their trap-Jlne- s the snap of brush, or the metallic nn the sixth day; some on the seventh, and others on the eighth. It was on the seventh dny that Bush Mc- Taggart started over Pierre Eustach's line, which wns now his own for the season. It took him two days to un-cover the traps, dig the snow from them, rebuild the falten "trap-houses,- rearrange the halts. On the third day be was back at Lac Bain. It wns on this day that Baree came to the cabin nt the far end cf McTag-gart's line. McTnggart's trail was fresh In the snow about the cabin, and the Instant Baree sniffed of It every drop of blood In his body seemed to leap suddenly with a strange excite-ment. It took perhaps half a minute for the scent that filled his nostrils to associate Itself with what had gone before, and at the end of that half-minut- e there rumbled In Bnree's chtst a deep snd sullen growl. For many minutes after that he stood like a black rock In the snow, WHtchlng the cabin. Then slowly he began circling click of twigs ngnlnst his rifle barrel. And then, with a sudden Inspiration that brought the curses afresh to Mc- Taggart's lips, he swung In a wide circle and cut straight back for the trap-lin- When the Factor reached the line, along toward noon, Baree had already begun his work. He had killed and eaten a rabbit; he had robbed three traps In the distance of a mile, ami he was headed again straight over the trap-lin- e for Post Lac Bain. ( , It was, the fiflh day that Bush Mc- Taggart returned to bis post. He was In an ugly mood. Only Valence of the four Frenchmen was there, nnd It was Valence who heard his story, nnd aft- - j erward heard him cursing Marie. She came Into the store a little later, big-eye- d and frightened, one of her cheeks flaming r.'d where McTaggart had i struck her. j Chapter XIV about It, drawing nearer and nearer, until at last he wns snllling at the threshold. No sound or smell of life came from Inside, but he could smell the old smell of McTaggart. Then he faced the wilderness the direction In which the trap-lin- e ran back to Lac By the middle of January the war between Baree and Bush McTnggnrt had become more than nn Incident more than a pnsslng ndventure to the beast, nnd more than an Irritating' happening to the man. It was. for the time, the elemental ralson d'etre of their lives. Baree hung to the trap-lin-lie haunted It like a devastat-ing (Specter, and each time that he sniffed afresh the scent of the Factor from Lat. Bain he was Impressed still more strongly with the Instinct that he was' avenging himself upon a dead-ly enemy. Again and again he out-witted McTaggart; he continued to strip his tiaps of their bnlt; the, hu-mor grew In him more strongly to de-stroy the fur he came across; his greatest pleasure came to be not In eating, but In destroying. The tires of his hatred burned fiercer as the weeks pnssed, until at last he would snap Rnd tear with his' long fangs at the snow where McTaggart's feet had passed. And all of the time, away back of bis nadness, there was a vision of Nepeese that continued to grow more and more clearly In his brain. That first great loneliness the loneliness of the long days and longer nights of his waiting and seeking on the Oray Loon, oppressed him again as It hnd oppressed him In the early days of her loss. On starry or moon-lit nights he sent forth his walling cries for her again, and Bush McTag-gart, listening to them In the middle of the night, felt strange shivers run up his spine. ITO BB CONTINUED.) Ha Stood Like a Black Rock Watch-ing the Cabin. hnted; It was .McTaggart who had hurt him, McTaggart who had hurt Pierrot, McTaggart who had made him lose his beloved Nepeese and McTaggart was here on this trap-line- ! If he had been wandering before, without, object or destiny, he was given a mission now. It was to Reep to the traps. To feed himself. And to vent his hatred and his vengeance 08 he lived. The second n'ght Baree lay with a full stomach in a thicket of bnnkslan pine; the third day he was traveling westward over the trap-lin- again. Early on this morning Hush Mc- Taggart started out to gather his catch, and where he crossed the stream six miles from Lac Bain he first saw Bnree's tracks. He stopped to examine them with sudden and un-usual Interest, falling at last on his knees, whipping off the glove from his right hand, and picking up a single hair. "The black wolf!" He uttered the word In an odd, hard voice, and involuntarily his eyes turned straight In the direction of the Gray Loon. After that, even more carefully than before, he examined Bain, lle was trembling. Ills muscles twitched. He whined. Pictures were assembling more and more vividly In his mind the tight In the cabin, Ne-peese, the wild chase through the snow to the chasm's edge even the memory of that age-ol- d struggle when McTaggart had cnught him In the rabbit snare. In his whine there was a great yearning, almost expectation. Then It died slowly away. After nil. the scent In the snow was of a thing that he had hated and wnnted to kill, and not of anything that he had loved. For an Instant nature, had Impressed on him the significance of associa-tions a brief space only, and then It was gone. The whine died away, but In Its place came again that ominous growl. Slowly he followed the trail and a quarter of a mile from the cabin struck the first trap on the line. Hun-ger had caved In his sides until he was like a starved wolf. In the first trap-hous- e McTaggart had placed as bait the hind-quart- of a snovslme rabbit. .Baree readied in cautiously. He had Jearned many things on Pierrot's line: lie had learned what the snap of a trap meant ; lie had felt the cruel pain of steel Jaws; he knew better than the shrewdest fox what a deadfall would do when the trigger was sprung and Nepeese herself had taught him that he closed his teeth gently In the rabbit flesh and drew It forth as cleverly us McTaggart himself could have done. He visited five traps before dark, and ate the five baits without springing a ' pan. Then he went on Into a warm balsam swamp and found himself a bed for the night. The next dny saw the beginning of the struggle that was to follow be-tween the wits of man and beast. To Baree the encroachment of Push M-cTaggart's trap-lin- e was not war; It was existence. It was to furnish him food, as Pierrot's line had furnished him food for many weeks. Hut he sensed the fact that In this Instance he was law breaker nnd had an enemy to outwit. Had It been good hunting weather he might have gone on, for the unseen hand that was guiding Ids wanderings was drawing him slowly jut surely back to t lie old beaver pond and the (iray Loon. As it was. with the snow deep and soft under him o deep that In places he plunged into It ovei his ears McTaggart's trup-Un- e was m;e a trail of iiiunna made Bonner j1? lp-Lfc- JACK O'LANTERN He wag a Jack O'Lantern toy and he never let Ma expression change. He always hud the same expres- - T" slon w hat he v?y jjf considered a very rffuf 7i suitable expres-- VWoV. B'OD '"r ,oy NIZx -- f Jack O'Lantern Sdu7 ready for Hal- - Jfj L ("" course, as Jl1 someone suld. It n i would liuve been fStJ H relllurkuule Ms f Pi expression had L changed from IU time lo t im e. V.' W hen you stopped n to consider that For Every lle wa a to" that Guest w8 true-- ; Ills eyes were blue and his ears and mouth and , teeth were made of red paper-covere- d cardboard. Maybe you will think he was not very handsome. But he wus. He had style all his own. He was ready in plenty of time for Halloween. In fact he was there ahead of the real Jack O'Lantern. He was there to greet the jeal Jack O'Lantern, just as he always stood on the little shelf of the piazza greeting ' members of the family as they came up the garden path. He never spoke to anyone with mere words. j That was not 'the way a toy Jack O'Lantern should act, but he looked so pleased as they came up. His ex-pression always made him look pleased and Jovial and jolly. ' . If you had taken a peep at him from around the corner you would have found llmt he looked pleased. But you would not have been ubls to tell whether It was because he had seen you peeping and so looked pleased to think Unit he saw you, too or whether he simply was pleased all the time. i You could not quite have told that, because, you see, he probably could have seen out of those blue eyes of his that you were peeping. His blue eyes hadn't even any eye- - lids so he never slept. Nor did lie ever look in the icast scrap sleepy. lie looked very much pleased ubout everything. Well, aloag came the real Jack O'Lantern and then what should hap-pen but a birthday party. It was Caret's eighth birthday and she had fourteen friends at her party. In the center of the table was a won-derful Jack Horner pie and a turkey and in each were ribbons which led i.o everyone's place. , Then there were little candy pack- - . ages wrapped up In bright yellow paper for every guest. . There were little yellow cukes and Jack O'Lantern place cards and yel- - low candies on the cake. There were lollipops dressed In pumpkin costumes, and a tablecloth of white paper with pumpkins upon it. i Oh, there was great excitement at the party, but there was no more ex-citement there than when Carey's j brother took out the real Jack O'Lau- - tern that night to call on the neigh- - bors. 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Probably more has been said and written about money than any other subject under the sun. Fielding, who spoke with the authority of a magis-trate, once commented that "money Is the fruit of evil as often as the root of It." Doctor Johnson said, "Money, In whatever hands, will confer power.' In "The Way of AH Flesh," Samuel P.utler wrote that "money Is' like a reputation for ability more easily made than kept." Ills modern disci-ple, ;. Bernard Shaw, goes farther Htid says, "Any fool can save money; It takes a wise man to spend It." Ba-con wrole, ".Money Is like manure; of little use unless it be spread." A quotation from Horace reads. "Money amassed either serves or rules us." John Stuart Mill.' in his monumental work. "The Principles of Political LYoiiomy." points out that furs, cow-rie shells and even cubes of cum pressed tea have been in various j Outgrown His Babyhood "I expect you were awfully sur-prised when a new baby was left nt your house." I said to my small i j nephew. lud!ev- - j j "Oh, not mut't," he replied, "I kinds ' 'specled sumlu like that to happen 'fore long cause, you know, I've out-- J growed my babyhood." j , Why Teddy Ran Fast j "Why did you run so fast this hot day nnd get nil tired out?" asked mother, as Teddy came rushing home from grandmother's. "Why, ma," explained the little chap. "I runned so fast, so I'd be heme be-fore I'd got tired." , New Distinc'ioj. A friend of ours snM that ne lo reverse the old snylnc nin: brliij; ids son up to be heard, Im: no seen. Me want tho hoy to he'a radl announcer. The outlook |