Show OF KAZAN by JAMES OLIVER OLIVERC C OJ G S Chapter Continued XV XV Continued 25 25 The wolves were wre silent now Cartel knew tt what that Hint meant anti lie Ire wasti was WM ti n ely 1 11 In Ili the Iho stillness the click of lIt ihl ibe lIart safety on eln Ii hl liU ls rifle sounded loil with nn sharpness For Pur runny 1114 y Hu-y heard nothing but hili the crack of the lie 11 lire fire rl Suddenly muscles 11 d I to 10 snap nUll 11 lie sprang back and the till quarter behind Carvel tI Ills his head level with his shoulders his Inch Inch- Ion lone fangs I gleaming as nl he snarled Into Ih the Muck black caverns of lit the forest beyond the rim of ot firelight Carvel hud had turned like a Mint It was almost frightening frightening he saw FUll A pair ott of ot t et I humin burning with greenish fire rl andt and t then another pair and aud niter after that so tunny of nt them that he could nut nol have hll I counted then them Me lie gave n a sudden gasp They were wre like ent eyes cat only much larger Source Some of them catching the till firelight ht fully tully were red nod ns UR earls coals 01 others other herM hashed hi blue ue rind green green living things without bodies bodies- With a swift glance he took took In the black circle of or orthe the time forest They were out out there too tou they IhlY were on nil sides side of ot them but hut where he had hind seen them first they were thickest In these first few rew seconds sec ends he be had luul forgotten laree awed al nl almost III nu most t st to stupefaction b by that mon monster monster- c PJ eil H cordon ordon of death that hennaed ed them In him There were fifty perhaps fifty tt-p tt perhaps a 8 hundred wolves out there of nothing In nil this I savage e world but fire firl They hind come orne up without the sound of ot a padded toot font mint or 4 tI broken twig t If It It had been hen later Inter i and nd they had luid been asleep and the tire lire out out out- He lie shuddered and for tor a n moment the thou thought ht got Slit the hotter better of ot his hili nerl ner neres IS I'S lie III hind luul not Intended to shoot except from trum necessity but hut nil at once Ms Ills rifle ride came to 10 his hili shoulder and he sent nent a st stream rIll UI of ot lire Ire out where the eyes eye were wert thickest st Baree Ilaree knew what the shots allots meu meant meant i mind tilled filled wl with h the toad desire to get 11 ut at the tie thront throat of ot one olle of ot his bis enemies he tie dashed tI In their direction Cartel el I gave guvo U O u a startled Hurtled yell 11 us as he went lie He saw the flash of body hely saw It t swallowed up up ii la the gloom and 11 ml In that lint same Instant deadly clash of ot fangs s and the Ihl I Impact III 1111 It of bodies A wild thrill fh h lt it through him m. The dog had hod charged nail alone and the wolves had bad waited There could he be but one olle end Ilia Ills four tour footed comrade had gone straight Into the he Jaws Jows of ot death I IIII Ilie He lie could hear the ravening snap of ot tI I those jaws out In the darkness It wn vas sickening p Ills hand band went to the Ihl Cult Colt 45 15 at Ut his hula belt helt and he thrust his hi t rifle butt hutt downward Into the mow flow now With the big automatic before MR his eyes yeA he be plunged out Into the dark tH tress and from his lips there Issued n a wild yelling that could have been ben heard n u mile away With Wit Ii the yelling e a steady stream of ot fire Ore spat from he the Colt nit Into the thi mass of ot fighting beasts There were el eight ht shots In the auto nail and not Ilot until the plunger Er clicked with metallic emptiness did Carrel Carvel cease Illse his yelling and retreat i Into th the firelight He lie listened breathing breath In tag ing deeply lie no nn longer saw eyes In Inthe Inthe the darkness nor did he hear henr the movement of nt ot of bodies boellE's The suddenness end and ferocity of his attack hind driven back the wolf horde Hut But the Ihl do dog I lie lit caught his breath and strained his eyes A shadow was dragging Itself Into the circle of lit light It was 1118 Baree Haree Carrel Carvel ran to him put pat his arms under un under der his shoulders him to tot t the he tire riM For a 01 long time utter that there was wasn n questioning light In Curvets Cartels eyes eyl'S He lie reloaded his hula guns put fresh fuel on oar th the lire and from frum his Pl lk dug out outstrips tot trips strips of It cloth h hIth with Ith which he bandaged III three thrle or four of the deepest cuts ruts III In InI I in roes roe's legs And n dozen times he tie asked In n II wondering sort of ot way oy Now mv I what utin hll t I the ileum deuce CI made you ou do that old hi chap What hat have han you got the 1 the Ihl wolves wol All that night he did not sleep but bul watched Their experience with th the wolves broke do down the hiu last t hit hilt of ot uncertainty that thuit might have existed the Ihl theman man and the dog Tor or days titter after that hint as th they traveled slowly ly north and und II west vest sl Cartel Car nursed as ns he Ill have e cared axed for tor H II sick alck child Because of the dogs dog's hurts hurls he hI made on only a afew afew few fw miles u n day cay 1 and In him hilt there grew stronger and anal stronger a u treat great love for tor the than II whose hOlle bunds were ere as gentle us as the Willows Willow's and whose voice olce him with the thrill of ot un an Immeasurable comradeship He lie no longer feared Mm him himor or had bud n II suspicion of ot hl him in It was wai the wanderers wanderer's Intention ln to Lu s ln swing over Into InlO the IIII country of lit the rent 1111 Kline Ilni n II good eight Ii hundred Mlles miles to 10 the north rill and amid west fore before the mush snows cu came II lilt me From Ih there n when the till waters opened In Lo Ie e planned to travel by lIy west west- St old Kurd to In the mm and lilt t ely elyo ly to o the Ihl mountains of or h lu titans plans were lucre In la Floru rl ar nm It were r rl on unlit In lii u a great storm In iii the time Lake country and when hen their fortunes looked darkest darkest dark est Carrel Carvel stumbled on a II cabin In the heart of ot n II d deep ell spruce forest and In III Inthis Inthis this cabin II there was a 0 dead men man He lie load had been heen dead for tor many do days and win 11 frozen stiff Carrel Carvel chopped n a ahole hole mole in Inthe time earth and burled him fhe The cabin was n treasure trove to Cartel Carvel and unel Unree and especially to tel the tuna It evidently possessed no other owner than thun the one who hind had III died d It was comfortable ont mud and stocked with frith pro ll provisions lons than that Its owner bad made n a splendid catch of or fur before the frost bit his lun lungs s and nn he died 1 Carrel Carvel went over them carefully anti and Joyously They Thy were worth a n tI I thousand dol dollars rs at lit any my post and be ne could cOllI see lieI no reason II why they did Ihl not belong belon to him now Within n week lk he lie had bad blazed out the lead dead deadman's deadmans leadman's mans man's snow covered trap line one and was trapping on his own own account This was two hundred north and west of ot the Gray Loon Loon and with each day tiny that passed the sun SUII rose higher In the sky It grew warmer the snow softened under toot foot and In Inthe inthe the air was the tremulous ut and growing grow lag ing throb of ot spring With these things came the old yearning to the heart henrt heart call of ot the lonel lonely graves grnes back on the Gray Cray Loon of ot the burned cabin the abandoned tepee beyond the i I r 1 A A. Steady Stream of Fire Spat From Fromme the me Colt Into the Mate Mall of Fighting Beasts of ot In huts his sleep he hI saw visions of ot things lie He heard again the low sweet voice olce of ot the Willow 1 felt the touch of her hand was WM nt ut play with her once more morl In the dark shades of ot the forest forest and and Carrel Carvel would sit nod and watch him as us he dreamed trying to 10 read rud the meaning of ot what he saw nail and harelIn heard harel In April Carrel Carvel shouldered his hla furs up Ul to time the Hudson's Hudsons Hay company's pot post at Loc Lac la In was still further farther north Puree accompanied him halfway and then at then at sundown Carrel returned r to the cabin and found him there He lie was so overjoyed that he caught the dO dogs dog's 8 head hlad In III his arms nail and hugged It It They lived hired In the cabin until Mu May Muy The Time hull buds were swelling s then and the smell of ot growing timing things had begun to rise up 1111 out of ot the earth lurth Then rhen Carrel Carvel found the first of Qt the early Blue Flowers That night he lie packed up Its time thue to I trowel travel he announced to Harce And Anti Ive I've sort of ot changed III my nay mind Were We're going back there back there And he i pointed 1 south Chapter XVI A strange humor possessed Carvel el RS as he hI began the southward journey lie III- did not believe In omens good lInel or nr hind bad Superstition bad played a n smelt small part In III III ids his life but he ht i possessed tenth both curiosity and love for tor adventure IId a and his years of ot lonely wandering hind had developed de tie- eloped In him n II wonderfully clear leur mental vision of ot things witch which In other words might be he called singularly no- no time the Illumination lie He knew that some Regime Irresistible force was drawing hack buck Into the south that south-that that It was vas pullIng pulling pull pull- In Ing him hint not nut only along alonga n a given line of ot the compass but bUI to 10 an nn exact point In that 1111 line For no too reason In particular the situation began to Interest him more und tumid more marl and mind as ns hits his time thue u was as valueless and he be hind had no x d destination destina tion lion In lii t view lea he lie begun began to U experiment Fur For tic the first h two o days eh he marked the dogs dog's course b by compass It was duo due southeast I On the time third m morning ruing Carvel Car eel vel purposely el truck struck a II course coarse straight west In He lie noted quickly the change e In III mm hlll his his restlessness at lit first and after that th Ihl the dejected manner In 1 1 hl h he followed at lit his hilt heels eels Toward TUI ct noun noon Cartel CumI swung sharply to totI tl tI he youth south and east again and tiel almost Immediately Baree re regained bU hula old f W ble m mae mae- ahead of et e t eagerness e rne tad and ran reD ter ler After this Ibl for tor man many 1 dayt dayL d. d Cartel Carvel the trill of ot the doe lof 01 Hobby Im I'm an n Idiot old h he be hut But It It Its It's a apologised one evening I bit hit of ot fun tun after all ail Ive I've got to to hit the line of ot rail rall before I can cnn pet jet over to the ho mountains so 80 what's the difference Im I'm game game- game so so o long Ions as you OU back bacle to that chap nt at Lee I-ac dont don't ta e me Bain Now T the devil I l Are you hitting bitting for his Ills trap line line to tu get even If It tints that's the case case case- fI lie blew out n a cloud of ot smoke from his is pipe as be tie lYPe eyed force Baree and l Bare with his hI h head bend between his forepaws I eyed him back I IA A week litter later answered l Carvel's Car Car- vels vel's question II by swinging westa westward arct to give n a wide berth to Post Lac Hahn It was wall mid afternoon when they they crossed th the troll trail along which Hush Bush I traps trap and deadfall had been set st did not even pause He tie headed due tra so fast tnt Cartels Carvel's that at ot times he was WOI lost to CanI sight lIght A SUP lr suppressed ed but hut Intense e excitement ex possessed him anti and he whined I rest rest rest-al' nl- nl to whenever Carrel stopped ways with his his' nose sniffing the wind I j out of the south uth Springtime the flowers the earth turning green the singing of ot birds and time the sweet breaths In the air were bringing him hack back to flint great great Yesterday when alien he lie hind had belonged be belonged longed to 10 In his ln Ing mind there existed no longer n winter The lon long months month of ot cold anti hunger were gone gone In the new vision vision- Ings In that filled hued his brain they lillY were forgotten The fihe birds and flowers amid time the blue skies hall hail come Iome back nail with them the Willow must surely have hn returned and she was wn waiting there beyond for tor him now Just over O that rim nun of ot green forest Something greater than mere curiosity curl curi began to 10 take possession of ot Carvol Car vel vol A whimsical humor became a fixed and deeper thought nn an unreason Ins In anticipation that was wan accompanied by hy n a certain thrill of ot subdued excite p. ment By Hy the time they reached the theoM theold old oM heaver pond benver the mystery of t the adventure had n firm hold on him From lI Beaver tooth's tooth's colony olony Baree Ba Ili roe ree led Icel him to the creek along which the black bear hind fished and thence straight to the time Gray Loon toon It was earl early afternoon of ot a 0 wonderful won won- I I day It was so AO still FUll that the rippling waters of ot spring singing In III a n thousand rills and streamlets filled the forests with a n droning music Inthe It In the warm sun the crimson glowed like blood In tn the open spaces the air was scented with the perfume per perfume fume tume of ot I Blue lue Flowers In the trees and bushes s mated matEl birds were building their nests After the time long sleep of ot winter Nature was at nt work In nil all her dory clory It the Ihl Mating I Moon the Home Building Moan and Moon was going home Nut Nu Notto to to mate mate- hood hut hood but to He lie knew knew that she Rhe was there now no perhaps at the time ver very edge of ot the chasm where he had seen Slen her la t They would be playing tO together n again soon ns os they had played yesterday n anti and the day Jo before und and the tin tiny before that Hint and In his hie Joy he barked harked up Into Carrels Carvel's face I and urged him to greater speed Then they came to the time clearing and once I I more Baree like hike a rock Carvel saw saty the charred ruins of the time burned cabin and a II moment later loter the two graves under the tall tull spruce He lie began be be- gun gan to understand ns as his I eyes el returned slowly to the waiting wafting listening dog A great swelling rose In his throat and after otter a moment or two he sold said softly and with nn an effort Boy Doy I guess youre you're home Haree Baree did lliel not hear With his hili head lip up mind and his nose nORI tilted lilted to the till blue sky he lie was sniffing the air What was It that came to him with the perfumes of ot the forests and the green Why hy was It ft that he trembled now as ashe n nhe nhe he stood there What was there tele In ID Inthe the time air Carrel Carvel asked himself and his huts questing eyes pes tried to 10 answer the I questions II Nothing There was death death and desertion that was nil all And then all 1111 at nt once there came trout from Haree 1111 a u strange cry cry almost almost a n human 1 cry cry and and he was gone like the wind Carrel Carvel had thrown off his pack k 11 He lIt dropped his till rifle beside It U riot now v. no and followed Ed Baree lie He ron ran ran swiftly straight across ucross t tie the e open Into the dwarf balsams and Into a n grass gras grown path that had once onee been wort worL by hy the time travel 11 of ot feet He lie ran until he was panting for tor amid then stopped and listened He lie could hear nothing of ot But lint that old worn I trail trull led leI on mu under the forest trees and he followed It fro tTO HE liB |