Show I Dy By FLASH CE GEORGE MARSH The Lead Dog r fe The Th Pena Ienn W N. N U U. S Sark s. Hin Co SYNOPSIS Up Vp the wild water of th the unknown un on known Yellow Yellow Leg Leg on a Inter hunt Journey Hrock McCain and n 1 Gaspard Is hl Cret Cre comrade with Plain Flash puppy and their dog team tum Brock father had warned him of the danger of or hla hi trip Alter After everi l bat battle Un with the stormy ater they arrive at M a fork In the Tellow VII Tel low low Hrock li II In In- lured In making a portage an and Flash Flub lead leada to the un tin conscious youth The Tb trappers trapper race racI desperately tel to reach their destination before winter acts uti In Flash Fluh engages In a desperate fight with a wolf a and nd kill him blan tella tens mock Brock of 01 his hll determination de d. termination to find out who killed lil his hla father Tracks are discovered and the two bo boys boy separate for scouting purposes purpose Urock Drock II I. l Jumped b by two Indiana Indian ane and a white man and knocked clous lIe He la Is held prisoner Gas Gas- Gaspard nerd pard rescues him while hla hll raptors rap cap captors tors lora sleep Gaspard believes these there nen non killed hla hll father and ond II la pre pr prevented vented from killing them b by Drock Br While out alone alon Is le shot hot from ambush by an In It Indian dlan dian and kills his hla would would would-be be While out on his trap lines linn Brock mock Is caught In n a hea heavy snow now storm He lie la Is lost and his hl food gives out Ills hopes hOlIes are raised when hen he discovers discover a moose trail lIe He kills kill a moose and finds Gaspard trail trait Gaspard finds another Indian trailing him and wounds him CHAPTER IX Continued IX-Continued Continued 16 16 Then the youth drew drw tits his skinning knife Ills glittering eyes drew clot close to the ash gray face fuce of the nun man who lay loy la by the fire lire under the blankets Were you here here lust last long snows snows-in snows In Inthis this country lie be asked hoarse with passIon The pinched face fuce nodded There was a man from man from the south ambushed In the month of ot the millIng mi-ll- mi Ing snow v Is la s he be alive In D the eyes eres of ot the Indian fear gave WilY way to a look of ot bewilderment of 01 agony as he tie gasped I am very elek You saw lIaw this hunter pressed the Inexorable son sun of ot Pierre The Indian feebly nodded Is he alive There was no ans answer er Ga Gaspard glanced at the distorted face bloodless bloodless blood blood- less It still III then fumbled tumbled under onder the Indians Indian's capote for tor the heart beat bent There was none nOlie Using Rising the bullied bathed son aon ot of Pierre La Lo cr ls shook his lists list at al the spruce In his bis heart was as DO no pity for tor this man mon at his bis feet teet who had hod tracked him that day to shoot him through the buck back These men had hod taken from trum him the father MI loved were loved were ruth ruih ruthlessly lessly hunting down Drock Brock and ond him self At AI that thai moment his missing partner lie somewhere stiff In Inthe Inthe inthe the snow as this assassin lay loy here athis at athis his feet feL It was war to the death now v between between beI be be- I tween und rind the men Ulen I who had hod taken loken from him father futher and ond hl his hla friend Through the winter he would hunt them as os one bunts the wolverine who robs rous the Before Detore lie De fore tore the March crust they would learn that on their trails rails followed a s tracker trucker merciless as the carcajou untiring as the timber Umber wolf The war wor was as on l I Leaving the body of ot the Cree to the toothed and ond clawed mer mercies les of ot the wl wood folk folk d-folk who would short shortly find Ond It 11 under the heap of ot snow with which covered ered It he continued on his wide circle north of ot the big In lake lie Heartsick with thoughts of his hili missIng missIng miss miss- Ing partner he approached the carn camp Eighteen days dars now he thought With the country full of 01 game gome Brock Hrock couldn't have ha starved even If It lost Arid And If It lost In time he be was bound to find the lakes hikes or the river No they ther had hod taken or killed him the him the friend he loved lond The dugs dogs ravenous ru with willi hunger huner greeted him him with a chorus of ot yelps I Then he saw standing In to the snow Crocks Crock's trapping sled Ills Ilia heart bean hounded bounded Brock Bruck was safe safe had had come home homel 1 Brock was alive his alive his partner was was alive I l I I he shouted lu In his Joy running to the tent lent Hal lIa l I You I But the tent was empty tie lie Ie bad gone again I Where Circling the camp Gaspard found his own trail of three days day be before tore followed by hy the well known trucks tracks of ot Crocks Crock's wider webs lIy By Carl Gar I lie lle go to find And Gaspard 1 I cried the excited hunter Then Theu In his bl emotion he hugged each of ot I the lie clamoring clam clam- clamoring oring huskies With alive the situation was changed lie Je now bad hod some one olle to live for tor-to tor to take care ore of Ills promise to Angus McCain made at louse House to bring Brock back bak b bound him lie lle could coald not nol ask his partner u tn III go north with him and throw his hi hi life away uway In a mad attempt at al yen ren lie would stay with Bruck end trap IraJ while the fur tur wu was WUI prime 11 then n In March he would Journey north murth In lu search of his bis toes foes If It he tie tithed failed to u return could take the dogs dog cad I tin tun tl the river to 10 the sea 11 alone Slone end and furry to 10 Hungry il a 8 fur pat k Unit hili would pull lull the eyes eye out of the tartars tartar's head hl ll Lute Lisle In lit the afternoon of the sec secand and nd day dRY as os followed ed Sill Sill- Bur pulling the hind quarters of ar n a nm r m Ill a thou In III m over Iwer er the lei ice hard trail lead leadIng In Ins Ing to 10 the camp amp Flush Flash met them Is h nn welcome I Hello you JOU man killer I What lUI dyul mean meun by leaving Just as I totter hack after starving lug out In tn the bu bush h The lean lenn fate face of ot Gaspard shone with Ith his joy jor tit III seeing hi his hla friend You ole Brock Hrock I You rOD geeve me some SOllie bad day dllY Brock I 1 he cried pounding the shoulder houlder of ot the stalwart while boy bor as he wrung wrong hla hI hand hund I Ihunt Ihunt hunt an an hunt for tIff your Jour trail troll troll- nut But tell me tae Brock Interrupted You were followed tollo and you IOU welted waited for tor him But nut how did you rOU know t be was Will on your trail I feel teel dot dal dey were ere ere after otter me dat lIat morning And you rou saw v heem Yes I wanted to be sure lure he didn't get you rou and leave e on an your shoes so ao I looked at ot the body Did you rou learn leorn anything any thing Xo No o de free Cree have ho seen ID my tinier fader he know but he was weak an ue tell lell how bow my fader tuder die Too bad bud I Im I'm mighty might sorry part tier ur Brock rested a II hand handon on un the shoulder of ot his Ida friend whose dark t features pictured the bitterness of ot his disappointment Then oVer mCf a supper of ot caribou und and ten tea Brock told his hll story Xe travel tl ten een a norder again commented d the wise bush Gaspard Walt alt for tor de sun deu den you don gel get lost By lIy gar gur dot dut Flash ees el smart dug dog I l' cried the breed half when Brock pluck told of ot missing the moose De Oe wolf hum hum- string caribou but Jut moose hull In de till deep snow see ces ver vcr strong Dal Hut eel eat cross dog dug dot dat Flush Flash I Ilice lice Ills hearts heart's all 1111 Iron and the wu he traveled on an nn empty stomach win was wasu u II caution lie He hadn't eaten eRlen for tor days when he lie tackled that mouse moose Gas Cius- hard pard If It anything happened to that pU pup Id I'd 11 wo want nt to quit gulf The lean tell features t ot of the tile other othet lighted In III understanding It II was Willi Brock McCain's McCains wa way to love his friend hl his dug dog with all the capacity of ot his bIll big heart horL There were no reservations reser In Brock Urock Hitching the Hie dogs doga to 10 the tho long lung haul haulIng Ing trig sled which hud bud come curne on the curiae load lond all he the way from Hungry House with Flash In 10 the rear behind Sill III Ear Car to separate him from the lead leader er er Yellow Yellow Yellow-ICye Lye the boys stalled next day dOl over trap line trail Iroll bur hilI burled led under the new snow led It'd the team learn tramping the new down to the tile ice Ice Ice-hurd hurd trail beneath now frozen solid to the t ground b by list Hit constant tra traveling of ot Brock Brock- und and hush Flash with the trapping sled the tangible warnings GUll Cas iii yard pard and Brock Urock already bud had luul ti to attempt to finish the winter on ull Yet Yei low low Lee leg lakes meant a 0 life lite ol of cuts cull stunt vigilance Once OUO their front from fro III the Hie north worked south ot of Hie Ile big lake loke and found the tile trap trop trap Ilme trails they night be ambushed rr Ir r taken III In their sleep tot foi the dogs could lit lit- poisoned or shot But never nefer fur for nu nil instant did the two hunters hunter consider a II retreat The he heart rl of ot LeCroix Le Croix croll knew but one desire desire desire-desire for tor knowledge of 01 how his Ids lather father died and for tor vengeance on thole responsIble Ible hue for his death deuth And little as 1111 Brock k relished the Idea of ot leaving his bones Julies In the wilderness of the Yellow Yellow Leg leg his loyally to tp hU his friend and ond Ills ria light lightIng Ing tog spirit admitted no 00 of ot ota a void Inn what the long snows hel held for tor them Already Alread they bad had given the strangers gool good proof of ot what hunters might expect In Hit forests of ul the he south Two had hud gone gont out never to return And later on the March crust wh when n the going was 81 gut good the hunted ones oneil would turn lurn hunters So Soran Soran Soron ran ron the thoughts though Is of ot the lie friends ar an they made mude camp on the evl of ot the hunt bunt i I on the big barren burrell Under tars still bright III In a purple Ilk sky ky Brock rock and urd JOI Ird cooked conked break breakfast fast Leaving Leo the whimpering di dogs dogs- gs- gs begging J beg irig to 10 be taken wired taken wired to trees the Ite partners snowshoed to 10 the Hank of III the barren l an-l on waited for tur daw Two days before Jaspan Caspar hud hail counted a o hundred caribou but bUI now as us the blue east grayed au an the frosty start stars paled und and fu tu led they Ibey wondered wheals er ghostly patrols ot of the phantom wanderers of ot the north were out there thereIn In the hodows digging with round toed hoofs for tor the reindeer moss ol of the barren ren renAt At last Ilist the b ter dawn stashed through the ashen east with ruse rose am and pearl pear and amber silts of 0 light TO BE Ut CONTINUED 1 |