Show FLASH GEORGE m MARSH Lead Dog DoO The The Pom Publishing Co Ca W N U V S n SYNOPSIS Up the wild water of the unknown unknown unknown un un- known Yellow Yellow Leg g. g on a win I. I hunt tourney Journe Cro Orol k McCain and anel Gaspard his hta French Fr Cr Cree comrade with Flash Fluh Brock puppy and their dog um team Brock Crork a father had bird warned him of in the danger of hla his trip After several aneal battles with the stormy wat waters they arrive at af a fork In the Tel low low Leg Brock Crock f Is la severely InJured In In- Lured lurd In making a portage an and t Flash leads Janard to 10 the unconscious un conscious youth The trappers r race file c desperately to fo reach their destination before winter sets Bete In Flash Fluh engages engage In a desperate n tight liteM ht with a wolf and end kills kill him Gaspard tells Cella Brock of ot hi his hla d determination de dc termination to 10 find and out who killed his hla ether ather Tracks are discovered and end the two bo boys separate for scouting purposes purpose mock Brock Is la Jumped lumped by two Indians Indiana and a white man and knocked unconscious lie II la Is held prisoner Gaspard Gas Oa pard yard rescues him while hI his captora captors cap cap- tore tors sleep Gaspard believes lh these men killed his hla father tather and Is la pre prevented vented from killing them by bJ Brock Crock While White out alone Gaspard Is le shot from ambush by an all In Indian In dian dlan and kills kill his hla would would-be be slayer While out on OD his hla trap lines line Brock Crock Is I caught In a beav heavy snow storm torm CHAPTER VII VII Continued Continued p 12 12 Dy Vy nine o'clock It was light enough to o distinguish objects down wind and anti Brock started Hud he been well sup piled plied with provisions he would have well weathered the red the blow In la camp but to walt wall one two one two days until the norther blew Itself out while he be and flash Iash grew weak from hunger bunger was not nol to hI his hla While he ho vol reI had hi Ma his strength he would try for or his trapping trapping trap trap- ping lIng camp wb where re there was a little Hour flour and aud dried meat and fish for Ot lash Flash It If could not Dot be he far not more than len miles and If it the wind eased they might make It by night For tor two hours bours the dogged youth with the nose Dose of his husky at et hl hU hla heels pushed Into IUlo the hut wind At AI length weak from hunger nd nd ex h he crossed a B snout small valley olley where the drifts rose shoulder nigh h but the fhe wind break of the fhe ridge ahead eased the going lie knew he must muSI find Bud a B camping place soon and weather It out for or his legs were st stiffening The grub at the end of 01 he the trap trap line line was IS still miles away uway He lie must muM hold holdup holdup up for the night and wait for fr thin the norther to blow lw Itself out He lie couldn't hock buck th this s wind loaded with shot lie was beaten Hut But there was no cover cr here He Ile would freeze reeze I If h he stayed They mU must mull 1 get gel over oer the ridge and down Into the thick II timber III her lieu Head II down bI betty doubled on tin his thighs the lIes desperate peru I I lad Iud plunged Into the pin pointed pin-pointed pointed bur bar burrage rage which heat beat the blood like sand suid sandblasts blasts to 10 his frost frost blackened face ace At AI his Ills heels n II dug Through f the he white maelstrom 1 rum ruin ot 01 the exposed ridge ride e th they battled now hit 1111 flattened II riled to ft u the snow at nf wind H. grass now nO reeling forward until unlit beaten to 10 their knees they sought breath I h for tor u another rill effort On ht and on Oil went the pair buy boy unit und dug dog fighting II fur for every I white yard they wrung front from the Ihl hi bludgeoning wind ns es they sought the sanctuary of 0 the spruce I lIe e. e There Thereat nl at lost fast they won way WilY and side hy by slue side on I the h. h snow gasped for ur breath hrut h H as the rue norther thundered over npr them Bested Brack wiped Willed the fIll Ice from l his tortured face bee wll with h n II hint blue hand hane handly ly lIy Instinct rod mil the Ihl feel of ot the Ihl mil udla of or Blocks Block's shops shoes the Ihl hu hll husky k ky hail hII held to fr n. n masters master's heels s Tenderly the fht buy bov ford d the yes yen of 0 his dog III front from the crust 1 Minded hi him irn Then rM the spruce in id k and no drift was making dug duga n a hlll hole hale lined and entered covered It II with lIh boughs houghs end cut eul wood fur for ur A n lire fire Well wAI II it out nut here Flush Flash III hh he hI cried H R III UP left Ill for sup up supper per thou per then wP we starve hut but well we'll 11 nil nit It 11 out oat here with inner er after the Ihl hours ol of grinding nit mil n the farce fori-e of Ih th wind wilid dug dog anti and hay boy the ot ut food rd with whim remit remained ind ii m I curling before Ih the biaz In Ins big lugs lour slept the Ilse sleep of P exhaustion To 10 surprise a situ and Joy h tit tie opened his hi eyes ejes at of to fo hind that the d ti had bud blown hlll Itself Itsell out nut sad mid the snow hll hind had l ceased lie you Flush Flash I l he cried to tu the HII dog who hud had du dug mitt Into the snow at af atHie atthe Ih the Hie side of the fhe hole hule Wilke lluke up uI you YU old olt sleepy bend l I Today we e e hove tUI a real feed Hrock III Jl from lack of 0 food roud but bul the fhe ht of ut Ih he the meal he and Flash would share ut at the trap line that day drove his hunger from runt hi lily mint mind Drinking thinking the water In which h 1011 he tie bud boiled hi his ten tee hug bug he h. tightened his hla hell bets ver r his hi empty h and ami United on en I. I legs still si I IT front from h exertion of or I the hI day liny Y before On II the IIII brow of tI thee the firs firs' ridge e h h he Brook stopped to fO set his course I bar Kur a II lung Inns spur he tee gazed li lithe III 1 the Ihl north HII Mini anti taut then t u hi the l bras I Ii ii us ua H s puzzled look hUlk entered his hl- eyes S 'S I II t. t the 1111 roii Ii nod horned ea owl l 1 Flush Firth h. h n tit hc 10 tu to I h hi d dg Ig g i t a eye vy wit died the IIII l but iv wilt will meres 1 Ion dutt I l see st-e I en 1111 l li ul el out hi hi utu es from rune the tia- steel sled trod 0 KiAl I xv 5 the 1111 ht 1111 f. f I IIII III lug F r suit hIli stud 1 tract t prill 01 UI hok n-k n k pine pike Ih every Ice ht locked forked ei ever r n all ich of ot frozen mu uk le It roll for ome i me laud land mark lu II h lu ha I noted on un hi hU way oy south west along the great barren b But nut hit his search learch a 1 ws a In rain oln He ne was WD In a country he tad bad never Dever seen Somehow be had bad been tricked by bl the wind It had bad shifted and he had fol- fol lowed owed the shift lie Ue bad I. I worked tar far to the east but not oot nore titan linn ten miles He the hadn't mad much I more nore tha that thai against that wind So Soe he e turned Into the northwest Through the short hours bours of ot the sub sub- arctic December day duy they traveled over ver the tile rest fresL blanket of snow which had bad burled the country countr But tut when the mn SUO drifted Into the colored lend haze smearing the western horizon and and Brock made temp the fhe wind wInd burned burned scarred by bythe features of the boys boy's face the he whip of ot the blizzard were sober with doubt That day he should have reached or seen the ridge at the end nd of his lines and the barren harren to the he south As the light and the spruce pruce tilled lilted with purple shadow Brock now realized that In to the two days of blinding snow DOW with a masked sun BUO he be had worked far tar to the east or west west which which he did not know And the lust lul of the food was gone I IlIo low flow long could he travel tra wit without bout grub Starving a as they were he be and Flash could make the trap-lines trap and home camp camp lf If he only knew know In which direction they thel lay IllY But to wander wander- lost I the lie two t friends slept while out under the glittering stars stole the clawed patrols of the forest night pitiless eyes scouring thickets and moonlit reaches for that which would still the rhe ache of ot their hunger bunger Ghostly shapes like gray shadows shallows drifted noiselessly through the stingIng sting sting- Ing ills air talons tense for the swift thrust at hapless mouse or rabbit Flash you fOU look hungry said Bruck In the morning with a wry grin as ns be he tightened his belt helt and ond started Into the north Today we hunt ns as we go A couple ample of rabbits would taste good tood eh If Ir only they could coult run Into caribou boy But the presence of wanes on the flanks of the migration doubtless hud had scattered the deer far farand und lint wide At AI t noun noon Brock Urock built a small Ore fire and rested While Flash us its yet showed little effect from Irom his luck of fund food Brock was vu fast ast weakening l. The ache of his clamoring stomach bad had badnow badnow now ceased hut but In Its pla place e stole a 8 heaviness o a numbness Into loto his limbs lie He wondered how long he would be beable uhle able to travel searching for th the river and Inke lake If It he tie failed to strike game I two Iwo Iwo-f three Iwo three days dus possibly another then theD thena a II starvation camp where day by day he lie would weaken until he could no IlIn longer er cut lUt wood to keep his lilt Ore fire and the Ihl numbness of ot the white dent deat would hind him beside his dug dog g Poor ioor old Flash I He Ill would still hang on ou for a husky starves slowly And then again boore before before be bo- fore ore he lice husky was too weak he be might find rabbits or caribou and work back to camp cump and Gaspard Filling bl his stomach with hot but water with a n shrug Brock turned to the dog Dash like tike a fool I got gOI you Into this mess mesa Now Im I'm gain to 10 get you yon out Come on old boy and well we'll shoot I some lIme supper i lire lie dusk dropped like a blanket I Iun on un the wastes Brock shot two tw rah rab Its which he shared Ith rith I It Flash h and that night for a space pace the fear pIU 3 his heart was dulled rapped In his rubes robes by the nr fire harassed thoughts thrashed 1 hu buek k mid end forth over O the days lust Jus passed Often he had heard his fa tat titer say UY that backed b by nerve nef would In the that tad bring any lust lost nian ninn home Vh i heart beat them was Ira nerve and ond head hen at et the same sam time Well ell ruminated the boy In the fhe rubes robes It II nerve would drive him t to tot t tae 11 Leg Ilg he would make I It tomorrow or I the he next t day Then Theo I It would he tie a 8 case rase nf of ho having haling the fhe strength th to 10 reach the Ilse camp on the fhe headwaters l lets But his hi strength was going that fast fa L To 10 rhe he best o of his hula belief he had hod wan tiered dered east past his lines Imp In fn the snow enow II It only he lee could m meet 1 caribou I What n It feast he tie ind and Flush Flash would ha have haon on red rIll I Thou Then there was us Ga I Already In search of hi his missing partner h he would nave nive visited the trap line C camp Bui But Brinks Brink's trait trail to the Ibe big barren harreD had been wiped out by the flee snow Ioor Poor GaspardI TO BR BF CONTINUED |