Show o v BARRE Son of Kazan By JAMES OLIVER CUR CURWOOD WOOD C Doubleday day Page Co f J t l C W en PART DOG PART WOLF This stirring story etory ot of o the Cana Cana- Canadian Canadian dian n wilderness s Is la not BO so much a requel Il aa as It Is 1 a successor to James Oliver Curwood's dog clas clas- classic clastic tic sic Kazan And It stands on Its own merits It Is a doir dog story but It has ha all human elements that make It good food love rending reading adventure and fighting There lathe the lovel lovely Indian French girl Pierrot the trapper the the sinister Bush l Carvel Ithe adventurer And In their lives Barce Baree pia plays playa a I thrilling part part-a a major role Part dog dor and nd part wolf woH Darce Baree Is I dog doc when It comes come to serving his hit friends and wolf oU when he ho wreaks vengeance ance on his enemies Baree's Intelligence Is almost human and andIn andin andIn In his courage there Is no tau fault In the beginning Daroe Baroe Is as wild wildas wildas wilda as an any other wild tiling thing of ot the Silent Places But Dut he comes cernes In touch with civilization through his love lo for tor the lovely and through his hatred for tor the vil- vil villain villain vil villain lain factor l through his loyalty to the lovable adventurer adventurer adventurer Carvel And It Is Barre Barte who ho brings brines together toe Carvel and Chapter I ITo I ITo 1 To for many days das after he was born the world was a n vast gloomy ca cavern Tern During these first days of ot his Ills ute life his bis home was In the heart of ot a n great grent windfall where Gm Gray Wolf his blind mother lead had found a safe nest for or his babyhood and to which Kazan her mate came only now and then his eyes gleaming like strange balls ot of greenish lire In the darkness It was vas Kazan's eyes that gave to Barce Baree aree his first Impression of something existing away from rom hl Ids his mothers mother's side and the they brought to him also his discovery of vision He lIe could feel he could smell he h could but hear hear but In that black pit un under er the fallen timber he had 1111 never neverseen seen lieen until the eyes ees came At first the they frightened him then they puzzled him and ond his fear changed to an nn im- im Im Immense mense curiosity lie would be looking straight at th them m when v all nil at nt once they would disappear This Tills was wh n Kazan turned his Ills head licad And then they tIley would flash back at nt him again out of the darkness with such startling sud suddenness II denness that Barce Baree aree would Involuntarily shrink closer to his mother who ho al nl always wn ways s 's trembled and ered In n a strange sort of ot way when Kazan came In la laBaree Barl Baree e of ot course would never know their story lie He would never ne know that Gray Wolf his mother was a blooded full wolf an and that Kazan his father was n dog In him hint nature was already beginning Its wonderful work but It would never go o beyond certain limitations It would tell him In time his lils beautiful wolf mother YoU mother was tens Hind blind hut hilt he woul would never know v of that flat battle between n Gray Wolf and the lynx In which his mothers mother's sl sight ht had been destroyed Nature could tell him nothing of Kazan's merciless ven cn vengeance of the wonderful years rears of their of their loyalty their strange e adventures in the great grent Cana Cana- Canadian dean dian wilderness wilderness-It wilderness It could make him only a son of Kazan An And then came that wonderful day when the Jr greenish balls of ot fire that were Kazan's eyes came nearer and nearer a n little at nt a n time nn and very cautiously Heretofore Gray Wolf had warned him back To be alone was the first law of her wild breed durin during time time mothering A low snarl from her throat and Kazan had always stopped But on this day the snarl narl did not come comeIn In Gray Cray Gra Wolfs Wolf's throat It died away awny In Inn ina Inn n a low whimpering sound A note of loneliness of gladness of a great yearning It is all nil right now she shewa was saying sd lug Ing to Kazan and Kazan- Kazan Kazan pausing i for a moment to make sure sure- sure replied with an nn answering note deep In his throat Still slowly as If It not quite sure of what whitt he would find nd Kazan came to them and ane Baree snuggled closer to his mother lIe He heard Kazan as h he dropped down heavily on his belly close to Gray Wolf lIe He was unafraid and and mightily curious And Kazan too was curious He sniffed In the gloom his ears eon were alert After Atter n a little Barce Doree began beJan to move mo Au An Inch at n a time he drugged dragged himself away from Gray Wolfs Wolf's side Ever livery Every muscle In her lithe body tensed ten od Again her wolf blood was wu warning her There was danger for Baree Her this lips drew back baring her fangs Her IIer throat trembled but the lie note In It never came amE Out of or tile the lie darkness two yards own away came cume n It soft ott puppyish whine and the caressing sound Bound of ot Kuzan's tan ue Barce land had relt the thrill of ot his first great rent adventure nd lIe He lied hod dl discovered cred co Ills his father This rials all nil happened In the third week eek of life lIe He was Just eighteen days old when Gray Wolf nil allowed owed Kazan halan an to muke the Hie acquaintance of his sun Jun n if It it lied hud not been for Grit Gm b rd PHI send the memory of 01 that da daIn day to In the lie Sini Sus rook rod when the I had lind destroyed du troy d her ees eyes she H Id have given glnn birth tc to Barco In Int inI t I IP ii 1 p n nod Ills ids leg legs lega would 1 havet have t 1111 oCr cn lIlIe strong lIe He would lIne have 11 i ilip mii and d tim the moon and II 1 1 ir h he would ou It ha have e realized n Into tho lie bunder meant nut u I nod nud would have seen the lightning lashing dashing In Inthe inthe Inthe the sky But nut as 9 It was there hall had been heen nothing for him to do in that hint black cavern under the windfall but stumble about a n little In the darkness and lick with Ills tiny rod tongue the raw bones that were strewn strew about them Many Inny times limes he ire had been left lett alone lIe He had heard Ills hits mother come and go and nearl nearly always It had been l In response to n yelp elp from Kazan lint came to them like a n distant echo lIe had never felt n a er very strong desire to follow until this day when Kazan's big cool tongue caressed cares crl his face In those wonderful seconds second nature was at work Ills His Instinct was not quite born until then And when Kazan went rent Va fi away leaving them 11 alone In darkness whimpered for him to come comeback comeback back just as ns he had bad cried for his mother when now and lien then she had left lert him In r response to her ler mates mate's call The sun was straight above the for for- forest forest est cst when an hour or two after Kazan's I visit Gray Wolf slipped away De- De Between Be Between tween Barce's Baree's nest and the top of ot the lie windfall were forty feet of jammed and broken timber through which not nota nota a ray rny of light could break brenk This Tills black black- Iv 1 1 1 Y Ir I r iP Everywhere He Looked He Could See Strange Things ness dId dd not frighten him for he had yet et to learn the meaning of light Day and not night was to Oil fill him with his first filst great terror So quite fearlessly he began to follow If It Gra Gray Wolf heard him the she paid no attention to his call and the tle scrape of ot her claws clawson clawson clawson on the dead timber died away swiftly This time dale Baree did not stop at nt the Inch Inch eight log which had always shut In his world in tint Hint particular direction tion He lie clambered to the top cf if It and ond rolled over oyer on the other side Be Be- Beyond Beyond e- e yond ond this was vast ast adventure and ond he plunged Into It coura courageously It tool took look him a u long time to make the first twenty yards ards Then he tie came to a alog alog alog log worn smooth by the thc feet of Gray GrayWolf GrayWolf Wolf and Kazan and stopping every few feet teet to send out n t whimpering call for his Ills mother he made Ills hits Va way farther and farther along It As lIe he went went- there grew slowly a curious change In this tills world of his He had known nothing but blackness And now this tills blackness seemed breaking Itself up Into strange shapes and shadows Once he caught the flash of ofa ofa a 1 fiery lery fiel streak reak above e him I him a gleam gleam of sunshine and and It startled him so that he himself down upon the log and did not move for half hair a minute Then lie he went on An ermine squeaked under him film He heard the swift rustling of u a squirrels squirrel's feet and a n w hut that was not at nt all like any sound his lils mother had ever made He lIe Ile was off oft the trail trull The log was no longer smooth and It was lending leading him upward higher und higher Into the lie tangle of ot the windfall and was growing narrower ever every foot he progressed lie He whined Ilia Ills soft little nose nose sought vainly for the warm scent of his mother The end eUlI came cume suddenly when he lost his balance and fell lIe He let out a It piercing cr cry of ot ter ter- terror terror as ns lie hc felt himself slipping and th then n plunged ed downward lIe He must have been heen high up In the windfall for tor torto forto forto to Barce It was a n tremendous fall Ills soft little body hody thumped from log to log as ns he lie shot this tills way and that and when at last he lie stopped there was scarcely a n breath left In him But lint he stood up quickly on his four tour l legs and nud gs-nud and blinked A new terror held farce Buree rooted there thereIn In an Instant the whole hole world had changed It was n a flood of sunlight I Everywhere here er he lie looked he lie could see strange e things s But It was the sun that frightened him most It was his Ills first Impression of fire and It made his eyes s 's smart lIe He would have slunk back Into the Hie friendly gloom of ot the wind wind- windfall windfall fall but at this tills moment Gray Gruy Wolf came around the end of ot n a great log I followed followell b by Kazan She muzzled joyously and Kazan In a n most e fashion wagged his tall tail This mark of the dog was to be a part of Baree Half Halt wolf he would always wag his toll tai lIe He tried to wa wag It now Per Per- Perhaps hops haps Kazan saw the effort for he emitted n a snuffled muffled yelp elp of approbation us as he lie sat back on his haunches Or he lie might have hafe been saying to Gray Wolf Well weve we've got the little rascal out ot of that windfall at last haven't hn we For Baree aree it had been a n great day tie lIe had hall discovered his father and father and the world I And It was n a wonderful world world-u world world of f vast silence empty of ot every every- everything everything thing but the creatures of or the wild The nearest Hudsons Hudson's Bay post was n a hundred miles away and the first town of civilization was a straight three hundred to the the south Two years be- be before before be before fore the Cree trapper had bad called this tills his Ills domain It had come comedown comedown comedown down to him as ns was the law low of ot the lie forest through generations of fore fore- forefathers forefathers forefathers fathers but hind had been the last ot of his family he hind had died of smallpox and his Ills wife and his chin chil children dren had died with lIh him Since then no human foot had taken up his trails I The lynx had hod multiplied The moose and caribou had gone by byman byman byman man The beaver had built bum their homes undisturbed The tracks of ot the lie black bear were ere as thick as ns the tracks ot of the deer farther south And where once the and polson poison halts balts of I had kept the lie wolves thinned down there was no longer n a menace for these of the wilderness Following the sun sun of this first won won- wonderful wonderful I day came the moon and the stars of Barce's Baree's first real night It was a n splendid night and with It s 0 full red moon sailed up over o the for for- forests forests ests flooding the tho earth with a new I kind of light softer and more beautiful ful to Baree Ilaree The wolf was as strong In him and he lie was restless lie He had slept that day In the warmth of ot the sun but he lie could not sleep In this glow of the lie mo moon moon n He lIe nosed uneasily about Gray Wolf who fay flat fiat on her belly her ller beautiful head alert listen listen- listenIng listening ing yearningly to to the night sounds and for tor the tonguing of Kazan who had gone like a shadow to the hunt I Halt half a n dozen times as Barce Baree wan wandered dered about near the windfall he henr heard a n soft whir over oyer his hea head and heI I once or twice he lie saw gray shadows floating swiftly through the air nil The They were ere the thc big northern owls swooping down to Investigate him hint and If It he hind been a n rabbit Instead of or n wolf dog wolf whelp his first night uner under the moon and stars would have been his last Jast for tor unlike the rabbit he was not cautious Gray Wolf did not watch him closely Instinct told her lint In these forests there was no great dan danger ger for Baree except at nt the lie hands of mull In his veins ran the blood of the lie wolf lIe He lie was a it hunter of all nil other r wild creatures but hut no other creature eIther winged In or fanged hunted him liliu What an appealing little wild creature ie Is this part Baree-part Baree part dog I part wolf wolf I ITO I TO Dl D BE CONTINUED |