Show 9 Son of Kazan IBy I 1 By JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD GURWOOD II p Doubled Doubleday raft rase A s Co 1 Y Y ll l d J J J Y J J. J Y X l lW J. J r. r W NU PART PAnT DO DOG a PART WOLF Thin stirring ator story of ot the Canadian Cana Cane dian dlan li II not so ao much a uel i a. a It I Is I. a to June Oliver Curwood dOIr clu plc Ie Ic Katun And It U on Iti own m It Jt U is a doc dog ator tory tort but It ha has all human element l m hat thet make It good reading Iove lov adventure and There Thera I Ii Ie th the lovely I French Indian r girl Irl the trapper trapp r the tb lush Carvel the adventurer And In their o ll Ilaree play a a. thrilling part a part a major role Part Vart dog doc and part wolf Hare Jaree la I. dog doe when It com come to serving hla hl friend ends and wolf when he wreak vengeance ance ence on his hl en Intelligence la Is almost human and andIn andIn andin In hi hla hl courage there I la no fault In the beginning ginning Marco Ilaree la lu a ae aa wild wildAI at AI an any other wild thing of ot the Ilace Hut he comes come In touch with civilization through hi hl hi love lov for the th lovely and end through hl hl hI hatred for tor the tha villain villain vII vil vil- vil lain factor through hi ll hi loyalty loyally to the lovable adventurer lurer Carvel And It I I. I who together Carvel Curvet and Chapter I IA ITo 1 A To Baree for tor many days after he lie was wan horn born the lie world was wai a vast gloomy ca cavern vern I During these first days of ot Ills his life lite his hIli homo home was Willi In the heart of ot a great groat windfall where Gray OrllY Wolf his hll blind mother had found a safe nEst neat for his babyhood and to 10 which Kuan Kazan her mote mate came cume only now and then his fC ryes eyes gleaming like strange balls of ot h lire In the darkness It was Vas Kazan's eyes that gave gae to Ilaree his lila first Impression of ot something existing way sway from his hi mothers mother's side find and they brou brought ht to him also nillo hi his hIli discovery of ot vision Islon He lie could feel he ho could smell li lie could rouM hour but hear but In that black block pit under the fallen timber he hUll hud never neverseen teen seen until the eyes came At first they frightened him then they puzzled him Mm and his hla fear changed to nil nn Ian iu im 1 curiosity He lIe would be looking straight straight at them when nil all at lit once they would disappear This was when Kazan turned his head And then they would flash back buck at him again out of ot the darkness with such startling sud suddenness denness dennese that Barco would Involuntarily shrink closer to his bis mother who Vho always al nl ways wn trembled and shivered eard In at n a noway t t ii n n F nf nr when I H u. u Fw P n n. n came come In of ot course would never nevor T their story lIe He would never know that Gray Wolf Volf his mother was a full tull blooded ld wolf and that Kazan his father tather was s I dog dOl In him nature was already beginning its Ita wonderful work but It would never go beyond certain limitations It would tell him halm that lint his beautiful wolf mother W was l blind but he tie would never neer know of ot that terrible battle between n Gray Cray Wolf and ond the lynx In which his mothers mother's sight had been hlen destroyed Nature could tell him hint nothing of ot Kazan's merciless vengeance yen Ten of the wonderful years of ot their of their loyalty their strange p adventure nd In to the great Canadian Cana Cuna dian dlan wilderness wilderness wilderness-it It could make him only lY n son Imn of ot Kazan Kozon And IIII then tune came that wonderful day when the tho greenish balls bolls of ot fire Ire that were rl Kazan's 1 eyes come came and nearer n a little nt at a n time and very ery eryl Pt l' l ca cautiously I ll Heretofore Gray Wolf had bod warned warned him him back bArk To be he alone was the first nt law low of ot her wild willI breed during mothering A low snarl from her throat anal 11 Kazan had always stopped Hut on this day the snarl did dill not come cOllie Jn In Gray Wolfs Wolf's throat thront It died awa away In Ina Ina Ina a low lo whimpering sound Round A note of ot loneliness IJ of ot gladness of ot n II great Erest yearning It 11 Is all right now she was saying to Kazan Kozan and Kazan Isu Taming for tor a I moment to make sure surl sure sure- replied with an answering note d deep p pIn In bl his throat thront Still slowly as If It not quite sure surl of ot what he tie would find Kazan I came cOlue to them and Baree Ilaree snuggled closer to his mother He heard Kazan as lie dropped Cropped down heavily ly on his belly close to Gray Wolf He Ill was unafraid and mightily curious And Kazan too wits Will curious lie He sniffed In the gloom his ears were alert After Atter a little Hurc began to move An Au Inch at H a time he di dragged himself away from Grit Gray Orny Wolfs Wolf's side Ide livery muscle in n her lithe body tensed Again her wolf blood was warning her lIer There was us danger for tor Her lieI lips drew l' l k I ck baring II her fangs tongs Her lIer throat trembled but the note nore In It U never neer came Out Ont of the till darkness two yards l Way 0 c uniS n a soft puppyish whine and the caressing sound of tongue Ilaree had relt reit the thrill of It Mi hie first firl great nJ IId cut Ho lie hud had discovered Ills lis father This nil mill happened l' In the third week of It s 's 11 life fl lie He was Vas Just eighteen days day od d w lieu hell Ura Gray Oray Wolf allowed ved II I IIII to n make 1 the IIII acquaintance of his son tun If Jr It had land not lIot been for fr Gray t olf li lipi s and the memory of f that Hint clu day ahoy en iii the HIP Sun rock when the lynx lied destroy her eyes ces ehe she tv co lat i hu lime haave given birth to te Ilaree In Inthe Inthe the i i p ti n ii Mid ud nil his legs leg would have l havel l vr r unite quite strong lie He would lIld lime have 1 11 n t the h a. a sun m timid and the mono and tl floe Yr he Ill would have realized hu thunder hl ant mr-ant anal would C CY l. r J ir have seen Keen the lightning flashing In Inthe Inthe inthe the sky But Hut as It was there had been nothing for tor him to do In that black blak cavern under the windfall but stumble about a little In the darkness and lick ck with his hIli tiny red tongue the raw bones that were strewn about them Many times he had been left alone lIe He had hod heard his hll mother come and go BO and nearly always It had b been en enIn In response to n yelp from Kazan that come came to them like a distant echo lIe He had never felt a very strong desire to follow tollow until this day when Kazan's I big cool t tongue ngue caressed his face In those won wonderful seconds second nature was wu at lit work Ills Instinct was not quite born until then And when Kazan l went away leaving them alone In darkness Baree Ilaree whimpered for him to come comeback comeback comeback back just as he had hand cried for tor his hili mother when now and then she had hOll left him In response to her mates mate's call coli The sun was straight above the forest forest for tor- est when an on hour or two after Kazan's visit I lt Grimy Oray Wolf slipped away Between between Be lie tween Ilaree's Barres nest and the top of ot the windfall fall were forty feet teet of ot jammed and broken timber through which not nota a ray of ot tight light could break This black black- Everywhere He Looked He Could See I Strange Things ness did not frighten him for tor he had yet ct to learn the meaning of ot light Day DIlY and not night was to fill 1111 him with his first great greut terror So quite fearlessly he began blon to follow It If Gray Wolf heard him she paid no attention to his cull call and ond the scrape of ot her claws claw clawson on the dead timber died deed away oay swiftly This time Baree did not stop at the Inch eight log which hud always shut In his world In that particular tion He lie clambered to the IlIe top of ot It and rolled over oer on the other side Beyond Be tie- yond ond this was vast ast adventure and he plunged Into It courageously It took look him a long time to make finite the first tt twenty Ent yards or s. s Then he come clime to a n alog alog log worn smooth by the feet of ot Grimy Gray GrayWolf Wolf and and ami stopping every Cry few tew feet tNt to send 1 out a 0 whimpering wh coil cell for tor his mother he made modo his way WilY farther and farther along i It It As he went there grew III slowly n a curious change chonge In this world of ot his He had known knowlI nothing but blackness And now this ness blurt seemed breaking Itself up Into strange shapes and ond shadows Once he caught the flash of ot ota ofa a n fiery streak reak above aboe him him o a gleam of ot sunshine sunshine and and It startled him labia so that he flattened himself down upon the log and did not move for tor half halt a 11 minute Then he be went on An ermine squeaked under him He lie heard the swift rustling of ot a squirrels squirrel's feet teet and a curious that was not at all aU like any auy sound his mother had ever made He lie was ort off the trail troll Time The log was no longer smooth and It was leading him upward higher und and higher Into the tangle of ot the windfall and was growing narrower every foot tool he progressed He Ill whined whine Ills Ili soft sott little nose sought Bought vainly for tor the warm scent of ot his mother The end came cameo o C Cr r G tJ r C lull I lIu suddenly when he lost his hll balance and I fell feU lIe He let out a piercing cry of terror terror terror ter ter- I as os he felt himself slipping and then plunged downward lie He must have been bern high up In the windfall for tor forto forto torto to Baree Ilaree It was a tremendous tall fall Ills His soft little body thumped from log to log a as 81 he shot this way ay and that and when at last he be stopped there was scarcely a breath left In him nut hut he hf stood up lip quickly on his hll four tour trembling legs legs and and blinked A new terror held Baree Ilaree rooted there In an Instant the whole world had hail changed It was a flood of ot sunlight l Everywhere he looked he could see strange things thInKs But Dut It was the sun aun that frightened him most It was Ids his first Impression of ot fire and It made his eyes smart He lIe would have slunk back buck Into the friendly gloom of ot the windfall wind windfall fall but at nt this moment Gray Wolf came rame around the end nd of ot a great log followed by Kazan Kazon She muzzled Buree joyously and ond Kazan In a most doglike fu fashion wagged his tall toll This mark of ot the dog was to be a part of Baree Halt Half wolf he would always wag wa his tall tali lIe He tried to wag It 11 now Perhaps Per ler hops haps Kazan saw the effort for tor he emitted a mulled muffled yelp of approbation as he be sat back bock on his hla haunches Or he ho might have been saying to Gray Groy Wolf Well Vell weve we've got the little rascal out of ot that windfall l at last haven't we wet we For Baree Daree It had been a great greot day He ne land hud discovered his father and father and the world And It was a n wonderful world world world-a a world of ot vast silence empty of ot everything every everything thing but the creatures of ot the wild w The nearest Hudsons Hudson's Day Bay post was a hundred miles away and the first town of ot civilization was a n straight three hundred to the south Two years before before be be- fore torE the tho Cree Creo trapper had hod called coiled this his domain It had come comedown comedown dOt down n to him as was as the law of ot the thet t forest through generations of forefathers forefathers fore fore- fathers but had been the last of ot his fatally family he had hod died of ot smallpox and his hits wife and his children children chil l. dren Jl had d died with him Since then no human foot toot had token taken up his trails The lie lynx had multiplied The m moose moose oso and caribou had gone unlimited by man The beaver blaer had built their homes homE's undisturbed The tracks of ot the black bear were as as' thick thick as the tracks track of ot the deer further south And where once the deadfall and bolts balts batts of nann hand Ile lunt a th rho it thinned do lo down there e was no longer n menace for these of ot the wilderness l Following the sun of ot this first wonderful won day dllY came canto the moon and the tho stars ot of Baree's first real night It was a splendid night and with It a s stull full tull red moon sailed called up over oer the forests for tor- forests ests flooding the earth with a new kind of ot light softer sotter and more beautiful ful to Baree Ilaree The wolf was strong In him and he lie was restless lie He had hod slept that day In the warmth of ot the tho sun but he lie could not sleep In this glow of the moon lie He nosed uneasily about Gray Groy Wolf lay loy fiat flat on her beU belly her beautiful head alert listening listen ing yearningly to the tho night sounds sound laid and for tor the tonguIng of ot Kazan Kazun who had gone like a shadow to the hunt Half dozen times as Baree Ilaree a n tt wondered won an dered about near the windfall he heard a soft whir over his head and once or twice he saw gray shadows floating swiftly through h the all air They e t let t were cre the i big northern owls swooping g down to Investigate ID him and If he had been ben a n rabbit In Instead tad of a w wolf dog olf dog whelp help his s first night under the moon and stars would have hove been his last for tor unlike the rabbit he was not cautious Gray Groy Wolf did not watch him closely Instinct told her that in these thEle forests there was no great t danger danger dan ger for tor farce Barre except at ot the hands honda of ot man In his hla veins ran the blood ol of the wolf He lie was a n hunter of ot all other wild creatures but no other creature either winged or fanged hunted him II What an appealing little wild creature U Is this Baree part Baree-part part dog II part wolf 1 Ii TO BE n CONTINUED I. 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