Show I Baree So Son of Kazan S By James Oliver Curwood I I S Continued from yesterday You are right rig nn pere she I I said Eald lie He will go to the tile wolves but ut he will come back He lie will willI will With I novel never leave me for tor long one hand still on Baree's head she pointed with the other Into the pit- pit like blackness backness of the tho forest Go Goto Goto Goto to them Baree she whispered But you must come back You must With Pierrot she went Into the cabin The rhe door door closed cosed behind them and Dareo was as alone There There- was wasa wasI I a long silence In it ho he could hear I the soft night sounds the sounds the clinkIng clink clink- ling lag Ing of the chains to which the dogs were fastened the restless mOvement movement movement move mOve- ment of ot their bodies the tho throbbing throbbing throbbing throb throb- bing whir ot of a pair of wings the breath of the night itself For to him this thia night even In its stillness stillness stillness still still- ness seemed alive Again he went Into it and close to the forest once more he stopped to listen The wind had turned and on it rode the wailing blood thrilling cry of ot the pack Far off oft to the west a alone alone alone lone wolf turned his muzzle to the sky and answered that gathering I call of his clan and then out of the east came a a. voice so far beyond be- be yond jond the cabin that it was like an echo dying away in the vastness vastness vast vast- ness noss of ot the night A choking note gathered in inI I Baree's throat He threw up his head Straight him was the Red Moon foon inviting him to the thrill and mystery of ot the open world I The sound grew In his throat and slowly it rose in volume until his answer was rising to the stars In I their cabin and the Willow Willow Wil Wil- low heard it Pierrot shrugged his shoulders S SIto lIe Ito is gone he said Oui he Is gone gono on n.-on pere ere re replIed replied replied re- re plied peering through the window CHAPTER No longer as in the days of ot old did the darkness of the forests hold holda a fear for tor Baree This night his hunt cry had risen to the stars and the moon and In that cry he had for the first time sent forth his de defiance defiance de- de fiance of night and space his warning warning warn warn- ing lag to all the wild and his tys acceptance accept accept- nce ance of ot the Brotherhood In that cr cry and the in the answers that came back to him he sensed a new power the power the final triumph of ot nature In Impinging on him the fact that the forests and the creatures they held were no rio longer t to be feared but that all things feared him Off there beyond the pale of the cabin and tho the Influence of were all aU the things that the wolf blood in him found now most desirable desirable- companionship of his kind the lure I of the red sweet blood of ot the chase chase and and This last after all was the dominant mystery that was urging him and yet jet least of ot all did he understand It He lie ran straight into the darkness to the north and west slinking slinking- low under the bushes his tail tall drooping his ears aslant the aslant the wolf as the wolf runs on the night trail The pack had swung due north and was traveling faster than he so that at the end of half halt an hour he could no longer hear it But the lone wolf-howl wolf to the tho west was nearer and three times Baree gave answer to it At the end of an hour he heard the pack again swinging south south- ward Pierrot would easily have understood Their quarry had found safety beyond water or in a a. lake and the tho were on a a. fresh trail trait By this time not more thana than thana a quarter of a mile of f the forest separated Baree from the lone wolf but the lone Jone wolf was also aso an old wolf and the directness and precision of long experience he swerved in the direction of the bunters hunters hun bun compassing his trail so that he was sas heading for a point half or three-quarters three of a mile In advance of the pack This was a trick of the Brotherhood Brotherhood Brotherhood Brother Brother- hood which Baree Ilaree had yet to learn and the result of his ignorance and lack of skill was that twice within the next hour half he found himself near to the pack without being able to Joint it Then came a long and final silence The pack had pulled down its kill and In their feasting they made no sound I The rest of the night Baree wandered wandered wandered wan wan- dered alone or at least until the moon was well on the wane He was a long long- wa way from the cabin and his trail had been an uncertain and I twisting one but he was vas no longer possessed with the e discomforting 1 |