Show i Baree Son of Kazan 1 By James Oliver Curwood II I I Tell Tell me what you want me to doTA do JACK TA r tr S I. I Telephone Message From John JohnI I Alden Prescott to His Home Apartment in Albany I want to speak to Mrs Pres Pres- cott that you say She Is not up yet And she has given orders not to be disturbed But I am calling her on long dis distance dis- dis tance Did she specifically say that she he was not to be called even by long distance All Ail right Will you tell Mrs Prescott that Mr Prescott called her from New York Tork and will call her up again later I Copyright 1925 1025 NEA Service Inc I Tomorrow Telephone message from from- John Alden Prescott to Ruth S Burke I I Continued from yesterday S U lu ins his breath he cursed The bait was lias gone and the trap was j. j The sharpened that had transfixed the bait was pulled out clean i All that day Bush followed a trail where Bar Baree e lad had I left traces of his presence Trap after trap he found robbed On the lake he came upon the mangled wolf wol I From the first disturbing disturb excitement excitement excitement excite excite- ment of ot his discovery of Baree's Haree's presence his humor changed slowly i slow slow- I ly Iy to one of rage and his ra rage e in increased increased in in- inI I creased as the da day dragged out He I Ivas IWas j I was vas not unacquainted with the the four-footed four robbers of the trap line but usually a wolf or a fox or a I dog who had grown adept in thi thievery very v- v ery cry troubled only a few trap But ButIn ButIn ButIn In this case ease Baree naree was traveling straight from train trap to trap and lila his footprints in the tho snow showed that he stopped at each There was to almost a human devilIshness devilIshness devil devil- to his work He lie evaded the tile poisons Not once did he s stretch retch his head or paw aw within the danger zone of or a deadfall Fo For apparently no reason reason whatever he lie bad had de destroyed destroyed do- do a splendid mink whose glossy fur lay scattered 11 In worthless worthless worthless worth worth- less bits over the tho snow Toward the end of the day l came cameto to a deadfall in a lynx had died Baree had torn the silvery flank of of the animal until the skin skin was of or less than half haH value Mc Mc- i Taggart cursed aloud and his breath I came hot ho At dusk dusl he lie reacheS reachel tie the shack Pierre Eustach had built midway of his line and took inventory of his i fur It was not moro more than a third I I of a catch the he hc l lynx vas vos D Ii half ruined I a mink was torn lorn completely in two I The second Jay he hc found fumI stilt still Il greater great I at-I er ruin Still more nore bl barren ren traps He He I was like a madman he arrived arrived ar- ar I j I rived at the second rabin late In inthe I the afternoon Baree Baree's j tracks were not an hour old In the snow Three times during the night 1 le Ie t heard the I dog howling I Tho The third did not re return return return re- re I turn to Lac Bait Bain but began a cautious cau- cau I J I hunt for lor Baree Bare An All inch or I two of fresh snow had iad fallen faller anti and andas antias as if it to If-to to take tae even even- greater measure insure I of vengeance from hl hi hia n man n-an an enemy I I Baree had l If left ft t footprints freely j I within a radius of a I of the cabin It was half hilf an hour before could pic pick out the he I straight trail and he followed this I for two hours Into a ucc bai swamp Baree Barco kept wit the w Now and then he caught the theof a IC j I of his pursuer a dozen en times waited until the oth othor r was so he could hear the snap of or bru bruthe I the metaI metallic ic click of or twi athis at ag his rifle band And then thena then II a sudden inspiration that br bro brothe the curses afresh to tips lips he lie swung in a wide circle circIe cut straight back for the trap il When the Factor reached the tho 1 along toward noon Baree had I ready begun his work HO Ro d killed and eaten a rabbit he robbed three traps In tn the dist of a mile and he was headed a ag straight over the trap line tar for Mi Lac Bain S SS M MIt PIt S It was the fifth day that fl B BM I returned to Ids his po t H was in an ugly mood Only m at of the i ur l Frenchmen was theand there the and It was Valence who heard J b hta 1 cursing Marie She came ino mo the tta store little later a eyed big-eyed a am d frightened one of her cheeks fia flam ing red where her While the was get get- ting the canned salmoa salmon gar wanted for his jinner Valen found the opportunity to softly in her ear 7 S Continued tomorrow J |