Show IBARE BAREE Son of f Kazan I Chapter XII Continued XI Continued 21 21 It It was t s wonderfully cJ clear ar night the cold storm cold and ond brilliant liter fter Iter with th the shadows standing out as as living things Th The third idea carne came to Baree now He was wo ute tike all aU animals largely lorely of ot one Idea plea a time a creature with whom nil all it t a impulses were governed by n II I cr leading fending Impulse And this Inv irn nIc Jle parse e in the glow of ot the starlit night Was as to reach us liS quickly 11 as possible v ibe 0 flit first Of Pierrot's two cabins on on W trap trap There h he e would find Ond I I ile e wont won't call the process by which I Ie came to ro this HIls conclusion T a proc proc- I Baree BIC ess i o of reasoning Instinct or reas reasonIng reason reason- ness n- n It fixed and post post- fc Ing in whatever er was a n ye e faith came to farce Baree Just the same some lie I e began to miss the traps In his to cover distance distance to to reach the cabin n e miles from Pier Pier- u It was ns twenty five Its It's rt's r ts t's burned home to t the e first trap trap- and amI Baree had find made ten of or c bl These by b by nightfall The remaining fir fir- were the most difficult In the thc tern spaces the snow was b deep belly ll god IDd soft frequently he plunged through drifts in which for a few fe moments mo mo- dents ments he was burled buried Three times during the early corly part If of of the night Baree heard the savage sa dirge of the wolves Once It was n a wild lid of ot triumph as the hunters I pied palled down their kill less titan than half halfa I 1 a mlle mile away In the deep forest But the voice olee no longer longcr called to him It voice olce of ot hatred and andt iras repellent repellent repellent-a a of t treachery Each time that he heard rd It he be stopped In his tracks and snarled his spine stiffened At midnight Baree came to the tiny amphitheater In the forest where Pierrot had cut the tile logs for tor the first of his trap line cabins For at least i minute Daree Baree stood at the edge of ofu u the clearing his ears very alert his hise e yes bright ht with hope and ond expectation tion lon while he sniffed the air nil There was vas no smoke no sound no po light In inthe he the one window of ot the lo log shack His ills di disappointment fell on him even en as asb ashe he b Ef od there there a again aln he sensed the act of hIs Ills aloneness of the thc barrenness barren- barren ness of of his quest There was a disheartened dis- dis h heartened slouch to his body hody as he made nide his way through the snow to the c cabin door He had traveled cle twenty- twenty Ire fire miles and he was tired T The e snow was drifted deep at the doorway and here Baree sat down and It was no longer the anxious questing whine of a R few hours ago Now Kow It voiced hopelessness and a n deep d' d despair For half halt an hour he lie sat shiv shiv- dog with hi his back to the door and andis his t is s face fRee to the starlit wilderness as asIt asif if It there still remained the fleeting hope ope that might follow after him bin over the trail Then he burrowed himself a n hole deep In the snowdrift ft and ind d passed the remainder of the night in uneasy slumber t With the first light of day Baree resumed re- re the trail He was wao not so BO alert this morning There was the disconsolate disconsolate discon discon- i lale droop to his tall tail which Ul the In Tn- Indians call the the the sign of ot ott The t the e sick do dog And Baree was sick sick- sick not of body but of soul The keenness of his hope had died and he no longer expected to find flud the Willow The F cabin at the far tar end of ot the trap line drew him on on but it Inspired In him none of the enthusiasm with which he had ad hurried to the first He slowly and spasmodically his of ot the forests again replacing Ing the excitement of ot his quest He Approached each of ot Pierrot's traps Lid end cautiously and twice he showed hewed owed his fangs once tangs once at a n marten murten t that at snapped at him hum from under n a root I where ere It had dral dragged ed the trap In bleh I It was caught and the second time lime at a I big snowy owl that hud hind t tome m to steal bait and was now a n uner at the ends end cn f a steel chain h il t jay away ay be that Buree Duree thou thought ht It was w and that he still toed Avidly vl the treacherous assault end ud fierce battle of that night when y a H Puppy Poppy p he was dragging his sore fl Bounded bor body through the mys- mys I rr nad fear of the big bib timber For i or 11 did more than to show his fangs tuns i ip tore the owl into pieces There were plenty of rabbits In 1111 1 traps and Baree Barf e did not go o liI JT lIe He reached the second trap- trap Mn late fate In the afternoon after atter tm I I I hours of ot traveling lie HP met with t IJ fr lr tory great disappointment here r n ee lIa Hail 1 not anticipated much 11 very verv I IP U lOW I 1181 I banked this cabin even e J f JIG Igler I ler II than llian Ian the other It Ill lay oJ throe three 1 Bui 1 II p a n against ul st the door and the I I l 1 11 Of S W white t I I te with a thick coat coar- coarl r of tro frost l At t this I lis place which was loge I I t t to the Hie edge of ot a big hll barren harren and nd I Iller hy h the t I Ie t thick I lick forests far far- t hick i for tor Pierrot had built hullt a shelter I I I r p 11 il and In this shelter r rI I Ue the t. t tilde 11 his temporary home All a. a ir ar rest n day ay I he remaIn remained tJ d somewhere He lae the fl the fire end Il of the trap line skirting In ia the of i the barren and und tort rt side line Ot of f n a dozen s i n h i en Pierrot ane and e hud bud i et h I a swamp In which 11 hind ts d 1 been Ien many Sl of yn I ilia t le f LIX o Il Ms his day before re he lie set Bet out outI r rt Urn turn dl did I to the Gray L Loon on Iwo not t tra very ery fast sl spend spend- ud days c R ht In covering Co the twenty twenty- 1 I pi tho the first and I the he theo 19 tn o h t f c he nc m e At the sec sec- n It J remained for COf three days bed RS 0 on n the ninth day that be he bee 0 th the e dray cray loon th Dge There was sage he Io COW b here were no tracks In Int InI but ut t I J t II hits his own made nine days r I s h me t for 1 became t It d less u a ru milne ne For Tor a a t eek he made A By JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD c a rI DO Doubled Doubleday bled r pare Pan c. c Co w u Service his burr w In the do least twice t at between dawn and dark dark- ness he go to the birch bark tepee the chasm Ills beaten heaten hard In trail soon the snow became fixed hied as RS ns trap lire And titan then ot of a 1 sUdden Baree a 1 change He made spent spelt n a night In the theat tepee After f that whenever r he was at ti the Ora Gray r Loon during the da day he always s 's slept In the tepee The two blankets were bed and they the were a port part o of And the there there- e all aU 1 through the long winter he lle The i waited winter f passed and spring came carac and tm still Daree Baree id H Ge continued to 0 haunt hisM his old t trails tl-n tl II s Cn 6 even e g going Ins now and then over oer M the old lIne as tar far as the first of the t two o cabins The traps trans were were a tisted I and sprung now the thawing tha snow disclosed Sed hones bones and feathers between n their jaws under the i ii were remnants of ot fur tur and out on the Uie Ice of ot the lakes were picked skeletons of foxes and wolves wol that had hind taken the poison baits Th The last snow sno went The swollen streams sang In the forests and rind canyons The grass turned green and the first flowers flow now ers era came All AH these things were happening and the birds had mated mate and nested and still Ne did not come I And at last something broke Inside of Baree his last Int hope perhaps his last lost dream nn and one day dai he bade good good-by to to the Gra Gray Loon No one can say what It cost him to togo togo go no one can say how he lie fought against the things that were holding him lalm to the tepee the old swimming swimming- poo pool the familiar paths In the forest and oud the two graves that were not so lonely loney now under the tall spruce He ne 1 F 1 c. c T. And Into tho the North He Went wen went t II-e II He had no reason simply reason simply went t It may be that th there ere eret Is a Master jJ t r whose hand guides the beast as ns well as the man and n that we know now Just enough of ot this S g guidance to call 11 it instinct For o In dragging himself seu away faced face d the Great Adventure ture It was there t lere In the the north waiting for tor him Into him the tenor h north tb he went It was waB e early orly In August when Baree left the Gray Lo Loon o H He had no objective tive U In view n But there there was still left upon his m mind like Ike the delicate impression impression im im- o of lI tight light ht and shadow- shadow on a ne negative ath e t the e memories of ot his earlier do days s Things ann an- an happenings that he had almost t forgotten gotten recurred to h him I m as hl hN his trail rd led e him farther tarther and faras farr farther far far- ther thier thela away a from O the he Gray GIU Loon and amI his earlier experiences XI become became real in thrown out afresh again pictures his mind by hy the lire Ie breaking ln of ot the last home borne of ot the ties tics that held him 1 to the followed the Willow Involuntarily o n I u he lie trail of these thes Impressions of mp r ot of these past happenings a and d slowly they Interests for forIn helped to build up new the blind canyon cause cane lo to hlin In He Ile up which which tepec e and Pierrot hud had chased him That seemed but yester day He ne entered the little meadow and stood beside the great rock that t had almost crushed the life out of ot the Willows body and md then he remembered remembered where his big bear friend had hind died under Pierrot's rifle rifle rifle- and he smelled of ot whitened bones where they lay ay scattered In the green grass with flowers growing up among them A And d now for tor the first time in many weeks a n bl bit of the time old eagerness fi put speed SPeed Int Into Baree's feet eel Memories that that had been hazy huzy and nud Indistinct through for forgetfulness were becoming realities again and nud as he would have returned to the Gra Gray Loon had been there ther so 80 now with something some some- thing of the tire feeling of a wanderer going going go- go ing home he returned to the old beaver beav beav- er er cr All AI through the month of ot August Auga t Barco Baree made the pond beaver his headquarters head head- quarters At times his excursions kept him away for tor two or 01 three days at a time These j Journeys 8 were always al at- ways Into the north sometimes a D. little tittle east and sometimes a little west nest but n never ner er again Into the south And at last ast earl early In September he left the b bea pond er-pond pond for tor good It was almost December when Lerue Lenie Lerue Le- Le rue nie a from Lac ham Bain saw sow Ilaree's Baree's footprints In freshly fallen tallen snow and a n little later caught a R flash of ot him trim In the bush Mon Ion I tell you yon his feet teet are areas areas as big as ns my hand and he is as as' black black- as a r ravens raven's ens en's wing with the sun san on on It I 1 he exclaimed in the I Company's store at Lac Bain A fox tox Non I 1 He Ho Is halt half as big as a bear A wolf wolf wolf-oui I And black as the devil ort was one one of ot those who heard lIe He was putting his signature In hl Ink to a letter he lie had bad written to the tho C Company when Lerue's words came to him Ills IUs hand stopped so suddenly that a n drop of ot Ink spattered on the letter Through l him m there ran a n Curious curious curious cu cu- rious shiver as he looked over at the halfbreed Just then Marie came In had brought her back from her tribe Her lIer big dark eyes had a asick asick asick sick l look in them thew and some some of ol her wild beauty had gone since a n year ago With scarcely a n sound Bound that the others oth ers could hear Marie had whispered into lIto the Factors Factor's rs r's ear and folding his letter rose quickly and left the store He was gone an hour Lerue Lerue Le Le- rue a and d the others were puzzled It was os not often that Marie came into the store it was not often that they saw V her at all aU She remained hidden I In the Factors Factor's log house and each time that he saw her Lerue thought that her fRee face was n a a little thinner th than ti tithe the tho last and h her r eyes bigger and hungrier hungrier hungrier hun hun- grier looking In his ba own heart there was a great yearning Many a night he passed the little window beyond which he lie knew that she was sleeping Bleeping often he be looked to catch atch a glimpse of ot her pale face and he lived In the tee t e one happiness happiness hap hap- of ot knowing that Marie understood understood understood under under- stood and that Into her eyes yes there came for tor an Instant a different light when their glances met No one else knew The secret lay between them them them- and ond- ond patiently Lerue LelU waited and watched Some day he kept saying to Some himself himself Some day and and th that t was all an Lerue was thinking of this when hen returned at the end of ot the hour The Factor came straight up to where the holt halt dozen of ot them were seated about the big box stove sto and with a n grunt runt of satisfaction n shook shoo the freshly fallen snow from his shoulders Pierre Eustach has accepted th the governments government's offer and IB Js going to guide the map-making map party up Into the Barrens this winter he an an- You know Lerue Lerue-he Lerue he hn has hasa a hundred 1 and fifty traps and dead dead- falls set and a big poison bait coun coun- try A A good line eh 7 And AId I ha have e eIen Ien leased ert It of ot him for tor the season It work I need need need- will give gi me the outdoor three days on the trail II three e days here Eh Eli what do you say to the bargain bargain bargain bar bar- gain JIt j jIt It Is 18 good said Lerue Yes it is good said Roget A wide Ide fox tox country said Mons Mons Roule murmured V VI Va Valence And easy to travel almost like lence hence I In nil n a voice that was a n womans TO BE CONTINUED A A I Z I |