Show r ao 1 d I j KAZAN oa 1 Co y i 0 The Tho 2 Story o of a Do Dog J. J That Turned Wolf I t 1 By to tot t James Oliver Curwood t i Copyright Bobbs Bobbs Merrill Co I CIo t. I t KAZAN ONCE AGAIN COMES UNDER MANS MAN'S INFLUENCE AND PERFORMS GREAT GOOD DEEDS Kazan a n vicious Alaskan I sledge dog og quarter one-quarter wolf I 1 saves I his liIs masters master's life and is taken taken ta ta- ken along when the master goes to civilization cl to meet his bride brideI I f and alid return with her to the frozen fro fro- I zen country Even the master Is afraid to touch the dog but 7 I Isobel Kazan's new mistress I wins his affection at once orice On Oni Ong g i the time way northward McCready l ady a af f dog dog- team dog driver Joins the party part and on the following night Inflamed inflamed In in- flamed by drink he beats the master Insensible and attacks time the bride Kazan flies flics at the assailants assailant's throat kills him flees to the woods joins a wolf pack pad whips the leader and takes n a young oung mate Gray Wolf CHAPTER VI Continued i 6 6 Three Three hundred yards beyond that moving blot blotch h was th the thu thin line of tim tim- timber timber ber bei ber and Kazan and ana Ills followers ollow bore do I swiftly t y Hal Halfway wa to tI the e timber r rI I they hey h here were ere alIn almost st upon it an and suddenly lit It t stopped and became a black and motionless mo mo- ss shadow on the s snow w. w From Flom out of f It there leaped that tongue of flame that Kazan hat hail always dr dreaded dreaded dread dread- ad ed cd ed and nd he hc heard the hissing song of the the cleath death bee bee over over his he head il d. He did didot not ot r mind rhind ind it 1 W. W yelped He He Helped sl sharply Emu anil nd the wl wolves os s' s raced rated In h i O of were n neck k with him himi J I A second flash and flash-and and th the death bee bec pro from breast to tail tall of of ot a n. huge se gray p-ayi p fighter close to Gray Wolf f M third a a fourth fourth fourth-a a fifth spurt of that mat ire fire roms rom the black shadow and Kaza him lt a taIa s1 of a red hot thing a along pg lii hl his s shoulder shoulder wire I e Y Ihla r aSir t off r th tho and stung Ills his ile h. h Three of the pack pad had gone down un un- ler fire of the rifle and md half of the theU were swinging to the right light arid the left But Kazan drove straight ahead ad Faithfully Gray Wolf Volf followed 1 J hint him V V v l The he sledge dogs free freed d from frok i J their traces and before he could reach the thc man whom hom he saw with his rifle held like a n club in his hands Kazan lV was y S met by the fighting mass of them He lie fought like a lend fiend and md there was was' the strength and the fierceness of two mates in the mad gnashing of Gray GrayWolf's GrayWolf's V Wolfs Wolf's lf's fangs Kazan wanted to reach the he man who held th the the rI rifle and nd he freed himself from the fighting mass of tIle the the dogs an and sprang to the sledge For Forthe Forthe the h first time he saw that there was something human on the sledge and in inen inan inn en an n Instant he was Upon lipon It He buried bulled Ills his jaws deep The They sank in something soft and hairy am and he opened them forIt for It pother nother lunge And then he heard bear the jV voice olce It was her voice 1 lEvery muscle in fn his body stood still sUll He became s suddenly sud- sud ll- ll I L denly like mO flesh turned to folI lifeless eie s stone t II Her er voice j the bear rug was thrown back hack and what had been hidden under It ft t he saw clearly now new In the light of the fhe moon and the stars In him Instinct worked corked more sv swiftly if tl than human brain could have given birth to reason It tins ils not bot she But the voice was the thet t feanie ante nIlle and the white girlish face so lose close to his own own reddened blood-reddened e eyes es lel field In It that same m mystery ster that he hend tad lad learned to love loye And he saw now that which she was clutching t to her and there came from it a thrilling cry if t In a flash he turned He Be snapped at Ora Gray Wolfs Wolf's flank and she sho dropped way with a n startled yelp It had all aU happened in a moment but the tho manas man vas as almost down Kazan leaped under Is Is Lis clubbed rifle and drove Into theof theace the thc ace of ot what was left of the pack Ills His fangs angs cut like knives If he had fought Ike n a demon against the dogs he ought like ten d demons mons now nn and thes the theban s ban nan bleeding bleeding and re rey y ID to o fall stag fall stag stag- ered erect back to the sledge marveling at hat was happening For in Gray GrayWolf Volf Wolf f there was now the instinct of or and seeing Kazan tearing md nd fighting the pack jJack she joined him in inho ho lie le struggle which she could not un un- I f When It was over Kazan and Gray GrayWolf Wolf were alone out on the plain The Thel l lack ack hn had slunk away Into the night nd the same moon and stars that had Oven Iven to Kazan the first knowledge of ofIs ofis ofis is birthright told him now that no longer would those wild brothers of ho he c plains respond to his call when he be howled Into the sk sky I t He Dc was hurt hurk And Gray Cray Wolf was urt but not so so badly as Kazan He Heas vas as torn and norl bleeding One of his legs S Sas as terribly bitten After a time he awa nw a fire In the edge of ot the forest The Time ld d call was strong upon him He lie anted to crawl in to It and feel teel the rl's a band on his h head hend end ns as i ho he mo hn had felt hat nt other hand in the world orld beyond he Ie ridge He De would have gone and noie-and and have urged Gray Wolf lt to 6 go o frith but but the man mall w was tins there He lIe and Gray Wolf thi h Ler r 1 7 ii 1 J. J warm l muzzle uzzle against his neck Something Some thing told them both that they were outcasts that the plains and the moon and the stars were we're against them now and they slunk into the shelter and the gloom of the forest Kazan could not go far He lie could still smell the camp when he lie lay down Gra Gray Wolf Volf snuggled close to him Gentl Gently she soothed with her soft sort tongue Kazan's bleeding wounds C And Kazan lifting his head whined softly to the st stars rs CHAPTER VII t J Joan On the edge of the cedar and spruce forest old Pierre Radisson built built the fire He was bleeding from a dozen wounds where the fangs of or the wolves had reached to his flesh and he felt In his breast that old and terrible pain of which no one knew the meaning but himself He dragged in log lob after log piled them on the fire until the flames leaped up to the crisping needles of the limbs above and heaped a supply I close at hand for use later In the night From the sledge Joan watched him still wild eyed and fearful still trem trem- bling She was holding her baby close to her breast Her long heavy hair smothered her shoulders and arms in ina ina a dark lustrous veil that glistened and rippled in the firelight when she moved Her young face was scarcely a womans woman's tonight though she was a mother She looked like a child Old Pierre laughed as he threw down the last armful of fuel and stood breathing hardIt hardIt hard It was close ma cherie he panted through his white beard We were nearer to death out there on the plain than we will ever be again I hope But we are comfortable now and warm Eh You are no longer afraid He sat down beside his daughter and gently pulled back the sort soft fur that enveloped the bundle she held in her arms He could see one pink cheek check of baby Joan The eyes of Joan the mother were like stars the baby who saved us she whispered The dogs were being torn to pieces by the wolves aril ami I saw them leaping upon you when one one of them sprang sprang to the sledge At first I thought it was one of the dogs But it was a wolf tore once atlis and t the he beati beat bear i i i i J 4 r aS I a. a 17 z t I I i Fought Like Ten Demons Now skin saved sayed us He lie was almost at my throat when baby cried an and then he stood there his red eyes a foot from us s sand l and I co could l leave lave sw sworn rn that he was wasa wasa a a 0 dog In un ari an Instant he turned and w was s fighting the wolves I saw him leap upon one that was almost at your throat t. t He was a dog said old Pierre holding out his hands hands hands' to the tho warmth They often wander away from the posts Josts and join the time wolves s. s I have hav had dogs do that Ma l cherie a dog Is a dog all till his is life Ki Kicks ks abuse buse even en the wolves wol cannot change him hIm for for long He was one of the tho pack He TIe came with them them to 10 kill But when he lie found us us- us He fought for us breathed the girl She gave him the bundle and stood up straight and tall and slim in inthe inthe inthe the firelight Ho fought for us and us-and and he lie was terribly hurt hui t she said I saw him drag himself away Father if he heIs heis heis Is out there ther there dying dying Pierre Radisson stood up lIe He coughed in a shuddering a wn ay ny trying tring to stifle the time sound under his beard The TIle fleck of crimson that came to his lips with the cough cough Joan did not see She ha had seen nothing of it during the six she days s 's they had been traveling up from the edge of civilization cl Because Because of that cough and the strain that came with It Pierre had ma made e more than ordinary ordinary or or- haste baste I have been thinking of that he lie said He ne was badly ly hurt and I do donot donot donot not think he went far Here take Here take little lit lit- little tle tIe Joan and sit close to the fire until I come back The moon and the stars were brilliant bril brn llant In the sky when he be went out In Inthe inthe inthe the plain A short distance from the edge of the timber line Une he stood for n a moment upon the spot where the wolves had overtaken them an hour before Not one of his four dogs had lived h The snow was red with their blood and their bodies bOdles- lay stiff where they had fallen under the pack Pierre shuddered as lIe he looked at them If the wolves had hind not turned turne tI their Ir first mad attack upon the dogs what would woul have baye become of himself Joan nn and the time baby He ne turned away with ano another h r of those hollow c coughs that brought the blood to his l lips ps A few yards s to one side he found Inthe in inthe the time snow the of the strange dOg dog V tf I. I that hn had come with the w wolves hes and had turned against t them m in that moment moment mo moment mo- mo ment when all nil seemed lost It was not nota a n clean running trail It was more of ofa ft it furrow In the snow an and Pierre Radisson Rad Red isson followed It expecting to find the time dog dead at the tho end of r it In III the sheltered spot to which he had dragged ed himself In the edge of the forest forest forest for for- est Kazan lay for a n long time after the tho fight alert and watchful He lie felt no ver very great pain But he had lost the power potter to stand upon his legs Ills flanks seemed paral paralyzed Gray Wolf VoIr crouched close at hI his side sniffing the air The They could coul smell the camp and amI Kazan could detect the tho two things that were there there man man and woman He knew th that t the girl was th there re w where ere he could see the glow of the firelight through the spruce and th the cedars He wanted to go to her He wanted to drag himself himself himself him him- self close in to the fire and take GrayWolf GrayWolf Gray GrayWolf Wolf with him and ll listen ten to he her voice find feel the time touch of her hand But the man was there and to him man hid had always meant the club the whip pain death Gray Wolf crouched close to his Side ilde de and ond whined softly as ns she urged Kazan to flee deeper with her Into the forest At last nhe one understood that h ho he could not move moye and she ran nel nervously out Into the plain and back again until un til her footprints were thick In the trail she made The Instincts o 01 mate- mate hood bood were strong In her It was she site who first saw Pierre Radisson coming comI coming com com- I ing g over their trail tran and she ran swiftly swiftly swift swift- ly back to Kazan and gave the warning warn worn ing I IThen Then Kazan caught the scent and he saw the shadowy figure coming through the starlight He tried to drag himself back but he could move only by inches The man carne came rapidly I nearer Kazan caught the glisten of ot the rifle in his hand He heard his hollow ollow cough and the tr tread ad of his feet in the snow Gray Wolf Volt crouched shoulder t to shoulder with trim him trembling trem trem- 1 bling and showing her teeth When I I If Pierre had approached ched within fifty feet of f them sh she slunk bitch back lt Into the deeper hi IQ s of tIle the spruce Kazan's were bared menacing menacingly s fangs frings were ly Iy when c Pierre stopp stopped and l leoke ok q down n q at him With an in effort hi h dragged 4 d. d himself hira liim elf elf to b his feet but bu fell back he Snow again The man l leaned ne his ri I against ga a i sapling and t n r him it fearlessly ess es's With tf rl a fierce fi grow rows Kazan snapped cJ at nt l Ills his ls extended extended d ro r hr s sunrise itis the tIie an n did n nit Jt pl pi l up a fa q stick rora JC club U He held held gut lt hI hand la q l cautiously and and oke In a 1 t to Kazan The dig snapped again and growled line rhe m s' s talking to him aU a the Ue time time- and nd once ills his touched ed Kazan's head hea and es escaped es taped aped before the jaws could reach it Again and again the thee man reached reach d out ant liis hand h nd and three times titres Kazan felt tb be a touch of it and there was nelU neither er erih threat ih nor nor- hurt in ih it At t last Pierre daway and went went back back back- backover ba k ov over they the r t trail I When IVl en he was o out of sight and n h hear hearing aring ar- ar ing Kazan whined and the crest along his Jils spine flattened He lo looked ed wistfully wistfully fully t toward the glow of the fire The Theman man had not hurt him and the three three- quart quarters ls of him that was dog wanted to foll follow w. w r Gra Gray V Wolf ol came back and stood with crith ith planted fOl forefeet feet at his side She had never been this bear near to man before except when the pack had overtaken overtaken over oyer- taken th the sledge out on the plain She could not understand Every Every instinct that was in her warned her that he was as the he most dangerous of a all ajl l things more to be feared than the strong stron strongest est cst beasts the storms the floods cold and starvation And yet et this man had not harmed her mate She sniffed at Kutan's Kazan's Ka Ku- tans zan's back and head where the time mit mit- toned hand had touched Then she trotted back into the darkness again for beyond the edge of of the forest she once more saw moving life The man mall was was' returning and with him n was the gi girl l. l Her voice was soft and sweet and there was about her hel the breath and sweetness of woman The Theman man stood prepared but not threaten threaten- ing Be careful Joan Joa Joan he warned She dropped on her knees in the snow just out of reach Come boy come boy come 1 she said gently Sl She e held out her hei hand Band Kazan's muscles mus luus cles Iles twitched He Be moved an inch inch h two o inches toward her Th There g gold re was the theold theold old light in her eyes and face now the love and gentleness he be had known n once before when another woman with shining shin shin- ing lug hair and e eyes es had come into his life Ute Come she whispered as she saw him move move and she bent bent a n little reached renche a little farther with her hand and at last touched to his head The young woman by kindness kindness kind kind- ness wins from this fierce tierce wolf wolf- dog a |