Show BAR r SON OF KAZAN by byJ JAM JAMES J rES S OLIVER oLi r J 1 t C TOO N. N Hr JY Y YM E gG enle I Chapter IV Continued IV-Continued Continued 8 BurrI darted to one side fled and ran for the lilt open meadow did dill not stir Mir ns nB Haree Baree sped past no no nomore more It If he hind lind been a bird or a n rabbit Then came another breath of ot air heavy with the till scent of ot man This Tills at lit lust last put Iut life Into him lie III turned and nud IW begun began lIn lumbering after Into Inlo the iii meadow trap Haroe Baree looking ln back saw him coming coming-and coming anil thought ht It wan tag pursuit and I came clime o over or r the tile slope and at nt atthe atthe I the same the they EUW and BorN Rorer When 11 they entered 1 Into the grassy dip under the rock walls oree t turned sharply to the right Here was a U agrout grout great IH boulder one ono end of ot It tilted tI up Ull oft off the he earth It looked like a n splendid did dill hiding place and Ilaree BUlle crawled under It Hut But kept straight ahead Into Inlo the tile meadow From Kroin where he lay IllY Ih Ilaree ree could see lire what happened Scarcely y had he crawled under the rock when and appeared through the break brenk In hi ll th dip and stopped The fact that they IhlY stopped stepped thrilled nuree They were afraid of oot Tile The big hear was two thirds of ot the way WilY across the IIII meadow The file fun m fell on him so IQ his coat shone like black satin Pierrot did not kill 11 for t the Ill love low of I killing Necessity err ty made him a n con con- conI I Hut flat ho hI saw that In spite tO of the lateness of ot the lip Vaka ion nn coat oat splendid splendid and he raised his rifle ISaree saw this action If HP lie saw n a moment later something spit from the end of the gun and imd then he hI heard that deafening crash rush that had come with his hili own hurt hUlt when the Willows Willow's bullet hullt had burned through his Ils flesh Hn lie turned his eyes swiftly s to Vuka 3 yoo oo 00 The Ihl bl big hear bear had stumbled stu he was on his knees os end th then ll he died 11 up and lumbered IU on The roar of the rifle rule came Caine again and amI a second true time went down could ou not miss at nt that distance I made n a murk mark It 11 was tas slaughter yet jet et for and It was business ho the business of ot life was shivering It was more inure from excitement lX thou than fear for he hI had hall lost hU hla own tear fear In the tragedy of ot tin these moments I A low whine rose roso In hl his throat as liS he hI looked 1 nt lit who ho had rises risen again and faced his Ills enemies iris 8 his Jaws gaping his Iwu bond bend swinging II slow slowly I q his logs legs weakening I under I him hint ns nil the tho blood poured through hn larte whined bo his torn M i. e cause l had sighed for him hire bemuse because he hI had Imd come ClIme to tu look lOll lOllon on him himI himas I as aR n 0 friend and because he hI knew ItI It I w was as death that t oo wu was vim facing now no There WU tuns n a third shot shot till I last o 0 sank down In his I trucks tracks I Ills lis big hll head bond dropped between between be bl tween I his fore forepaws paws A racking cough lou or two ram collie tu to lIal havoc Ilaree I And then there was silence It was wa slaughter slaughter but hut r-hut but business A minute later standing over o Pierrot said suld to plEse Mon Ion I DIcu Dieu but It Is a n tine line skin kin t It Is s worth twenty dollars over O at lit Inc Lne a 1 n He III drew forth his knife and b began nn whetting It on n a stone ston which he cur car curried ried In III his pocket In III these minutes Ilaree Baree might have crawled out from under his Ids rock and escaped down the canyon for fr n fl space 1 III he w was ns forgotten Then SI thought of pt him and In 19 1 I that same saint sll wondering voice voice olce she spoke again the word Ilaree Baree I 11 Irot who wlm was WIS kneeling looked up st t herOut her lier I I Out l. l lie He was born horn of pt th the wild And O I now he Is IK gone gone gone- I The Willow shook hook her heed head I II I Non he I Is not nol gone she said 1 and I I her dark ej ejI's s tho the sunlit I m meadow doI do I As she quested the ragged tI edges of ot the little meadow for SIgns Ins of ot the d dog s- s pup II h her hr r thoughts flashed buck back swiftly I Two years o ago o the they hind had burled buried her princess mother under tilt the tall limit spruce sea en their cabin That da day Pierrot's li O sun Run hind had st set for all time and her own life lite was filled with a vast loneliness There had been three at the graveside that afternoon as all the sun Run went down Pierrot herself and a dog dolt a great powerful husky with a n white star on his breast and a white tipped ear He lie had been her dead mothers mother's pet from hEr her bodyguard with her always even with his head resting on the side of her lien bed bell as she died And that night the night of the day they burled burld her the dog had disappeared aredo He lie had gone as quietly and as 09 completely completely com om as her spirit No one ever er saw him him after that hint It was strange and to Pierrot It was n a miracle p Deep Drep In his heart he lie was filled with the wonderful wonder wonder- ful conviction that the dog loA had gone with hits hili beloved Wyola Into heaven Hut But had hod spent three winters win win- at nt the Missioners school at nt Nelson Nelson Nel Nel- son house She had hall learned n a great deal about white people and th the real God and she knew that Pierrot's thought was os Impossible She believed ld that her mothers mother's husky was either lend dead or had Joined 11 the wolves Probably ably he had rune gone to 10 the wolves So So- So was It that Illat this youngster she and her father hind had pursue pursued was wo of the flesh and blood of her mothers mother's pet pt It was ns more than possible The white stir star ori oti his Ills breast the tipped the car the fact that he hI hind had not bitten her when he might easily have haw burled buried his his fangs In the tho soft slosh flesh of ot her arms She was convinced While I Pierrot leers t skinned d the bear henr she began hunting for Beret Ilaree Ilaree had not moved an nn Inch from under his rock He lie lay IllY Ilk like I a u thing stunned his huts fy eyes s fixed steadily on the time I scene of ot the tragedy out In the meadow He Ill hud hind seen In something that he III would never ne forget forget even even ns us he would never ncr r quite forgot forget hl his mother S k 1 Ma M. and Ka Kazan timid and the old windfall He lie had hUll witnessed the death of the c cr co iture i- i ture he had thought power pow t the big lilg bear had not even ln put Iut up n a tight fight Pierrot mind and lied hall k killed II him hint without touching him now Pierrot was cutting him with n a knife w which shot silvery hashes flashes In the sun SlID un and made no move inove- ment It made ninde Paree shiver nail he hI drew himself nn min Inch farther back bade under the rock where he III was vas already wedged us as If he 1 hind had been shoved shou-d there thereby thereby h by n ml strung strong hand He lie could set nee Slit She hl came straight back hack to the break through h his hits Might flight had hind taken him mind imd I stood lood nt ut last lut not miot more than twenty feet from where he lie was hidden n Now Ol dint she stood where he h. could coils not nol escape she sho he begun began nn weaving Ing her hr shining shin ing hair Into two thick braids Paree had taken his eyes fIlS from front Pierrot find he lit watched her curiously He lie was Willi not lIot II afraid now nos Ills His nerves rs tingled In him hint a II strange and growing ln force was struggling to solve sohl a great mystery toys mys tery the tery-the the reason for fur his Ills desire to creep out from trout under his rock rork and amid approach ap zip that wonderful creature with the shining eyes and nOlI the tile beautiful hair hall was I looking about her She he was smiling For Tor a II moment her IlIr face was turret turned toward hint him and und he saw the white shine of tier her teeth and her hr I r eyes ejes s seemed seethed glowing gloving straight at nt him And then suddenly slit she dropped droppO 11 on her knees and peered under r the rock role Their eyes met For Tor nt at least t half hair halfa haira a minute there teas nut not a U sound Eleese did not move mo and her breath came so softly that Ilaree could not hear It It Then lIell she said suld almost t In a U UI I whisper whimper Beret Ilaree I r Ilaree 1 Till Ilaree Murat I It the first time Haree Bartl hail had heard his nu name III P and amid there was something some seems thin thing so soft mind and assuring In the sound of of It that In lit J spite lf I tt of lf himself the tbt d dog g In him responded tl to It In a II whimper that Just reached th thi th S W 1 I she Bhe stretched hian to III toan low tows ears earll Slowly an aria ann It was bare and nd round and nd soft He lie might have hue darted forward the length lenith of ot hl his hll body and burled his I fang fangs In It easily taut Hut som something held him back buck lie He knew that it was not an enemy nemy he know that the dark eyes shining nt at him so 80 wonderfully were wert not filled with the desire to harm harmand harmand harm harm- and the voice olce hint came to him softly like strange und and thrilling music a n Baree 1 Ilaree Haree 1 l lOver Willow Over and over o again the called to him like that while on hei het face she tried to Ira drew IV herself a few fes Inches farther further under the rock Sh She could not reach him There Therl was stir stil stirn stlla anti and Haree Baree n a foot between len her hand an and she could not net wedge herself In an as anInch Inch more And then she saw where whereon rock there therl on the other side of ot the was lUS a hollow shut In by a stone If 11 she hind had removed remo the stone slone and come comeIn comeIn comeIn In that dint way way way- She drew herself out and stood once more snore In the sunshine Her IIer heart thrilled Pierrot was wall busy over O his hIli bear and blur and she would not call him She made an un effort to move mo the stone which closed In the lie hollow under the big bowlder but It was wedged In tightly Then she begun began digging with witha a u stick If It Pierrot had hull been there his hili sharp eyes IS would have discovered the significance ance of ot that stone which was not larger than a n water pall pail Possibly for centuries It hind had lain loin there Its tl support keeping the huge hugl rock from toppling down Just ns as an weight ounce may swing the balance of n a wheel that weighs weh a ton 1 Five KI lve minutes and minutes could move mote the stone She tugged at nt It Inch by Inch Inh she dragged It out nut until nt at lust last It lay IllY nt at her feet and the opening was ready for her tier body hody She Rhe looked again toward tow Pierrot He Ill was still busy and she Rhe laughed softly ns n. she untied a bl big red and Hay Bay handkerchief from about her ders With this she would secure She Rhe dropped on her hands und and knees 11 and ond then lowered herself flat flaton flaton flaton on the ground and began h crawling Into the hollow under the bowl bowlder iler Haree had moved With the back backof backof backof of his head flattened against the rock he had heard something which hind had not herd heard he Ile hind had felt a slow and growing pressure and from this pressure pressure pres pres- sure surl he had hind dragged himself elf slowly slowly- I and the pressure still followed The 1 mass of rock was wa settling 1 No did not SOP see or hal or understand She was WIlS calling to him more and more mor pleadingly Ha Ba 1111 roe Ba Ilaree ree-Ba ree Paree rp- rp tier Her head and shoulders rs and both hoth arms anus were ro under the rock now The fhe glow now of her eyes ees was lUS very ery close to Haree He lie whined The thrill of a n great und timid Impending danger stirred In his hits blo blood d. d And then then then- In that moment nt felt the pressure of ot the rock on her shoulder shoulder and Into the eyes that limit had been ShO glowIng glowing glow glow- Ing softly at nt Ilaree there shot a n sudden suit sud i den w I wild lid Ild look inns of horror hOrlor And then there came from her lips ups n cry that was not like an any other sound Hares Baree hind had ever hoard heard In the wilderness w wild piercing II filled 11 Id I'd with I agonized femur fear Pierrot did not hear that first rr cry Hut But he lie heard the second and ami I I the Hie third third and and then scream after I scream ns n's ns us the Willows Willow's tender body was slowly crushed under the settling mass amass lie Ill ran run toward to It with the lie SPI speed gisei t j of the wind The cries eriCs wore here weaker weaker dying dj Ing away He lie saw Haree n as lie he came out from under the lie rock and null ran Into Inlo the canyon and In the same saint Instant lie hI saw W a R part of the Willows Willow's Willows Willow's Wil Wil- lows low's dress und and her feet The rho rest of ot her was hidden under the death Like a U madman Pierrot began hgan digging When n II few moments litter later he drew out ou from under the bowlder slip sIll was white and deathly death death- ly Mill stall Her eyes Irs were wre closed Ills hand 1 could not feel that lint shy was III lag h. and a n great moan cf nn an rose rnE out omit of pt his soul soot Hut But he hI knew l how to for n a life He Ill tore rp open her dress s and found that she was S not J ns us he lie had feared Then he heran heran ran for fur water When he lie returned the Willows Willow's eyes ees were open and she she was gasping for breath The Th blessed saints be hI praised 1 l sobbed Pierrot falling on his hili knees at nt ather ather her side mn ma 1 I She he smiled seined nt at him hill with wilh her two hands hand on tier her hare bare breast t mind and Pierrot hugged her lIr up ill to hi him him III forgetting tin him water Mater he hI hind had run so hard to 10 pet get et Still later I when he got Int down on his hit knees knes and peered under antler time the rock his face turned white amid he lie sold said Mon Sion un Diets If It hall had not mint been ben for that little hollow In the earth He Ill shuddered nn amid salt said no snore more lint II II I happy In her salvation made iliadI a II movement with willi her 1111 hand und and sold said smiling tit lit him I would have ho b been en like Tike that Ah lOon mon Pere I hope I shall never ne Late hue havea Latea a II lover Jo like that rock I Pierrot's face darkened as us he bent over o herNon her Nun Non on he said fiercely Never r I He lie was thinking again of Bart gart the till factor ut at Luc Lac llama ani and his hU hands clenched while his lips softly touched time the Willows Willow's hair Will Baree finally come under the domination of TO liE HE CONTINUED CONTINUED I |