Show BARES BAREE Son of Kazan Kazan I By JAMES JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD GURWOOD Doubled P rc s C Co 1 S Service PART DOG PART WOLF This stirring story of the Canadian Canadian Cana Cana- dian dlan wilderness Is not so much a 0 sequel as se it is le a successor to James Oliver Curwood's dog doe classic clas clas- sic Kazan And nd it stands on Its Ito own merits It Is a dog doe story but It has all human elements that mako make It good reading love rending love adventure and fighting There Is the lovely Indian French girl Pierrot the trapper the sinister Bush Dush Carvel the adventurer And In their lives Barce plays a n. thrilling part part part-a a major role Tart Part dog and part wolf Barce Darce Is dog when wl I It comes to serving his friends and wolf when he wreaks vengeance vengeance ance on his enemies Baree's intelligence I is almost human andin andIn and andIn I In his courage courage there Is le no fault In the be beginning Barce Darce is as wild wildas as any other wild thing of the Silent Places But Dut he pomes comes omes In touch with civilization through his love for the lovely and through his hatred for the villain vii vil lain factor through his loyalty to the lovable advent adventurer adventurer t Carvel Carve And It Is Baree who brings together Carvel Curve 1 and Chapter I 1 1 1 To Baree for many ninny days after he was born the world was a vast gloomy ca cavern Tern During these first days of his life his home borne was In the thc heart of ot a great windfall where Gray Wolf his blind mother had found a safe nest for his babyhood and to which Kazan her mate came only now and then his eyes gleaming like strange balls of ot greenish fire In la the darkness df It was Kaz Kazan's ns n's eyes that gave to Baree his first Impression of something existing away from hl his mothers mother's side and they brought to him also his discovery of ot vision He could feel he could smell he ic could hear hear but but In that black pit under the fallen timber he hud bud never neverseen seen Been until the eyes came At t first they hey frightened him then they puzzled him hili and his fear changed to an Im Immense Immense Immense Im- Im mense mense- curiosity be looking strul straight ht at them when all aU at once they would disappear This was when Kazan Cazan turned his head And then n they would flash flashback back at him again gain out pf ot of the Le darkness darkness with s such sill C s1 startling it sud suddenness denness that Baree would Involuntarily shrink brink closer to his mother who ho aIwas aIwa's always always al aI- al- al ways was trembled and shivered In to a strange sort of way when Kazan came ame I In Baree of ot course would never ne know kno their heir stor story He lIe would would neer never know that hat Gray Wolf his mother was a blooded full wolf and that Kazan hl hid lather father was a dog In him na nature ure was already beginning Its wonderful work but mt It would never go beyond certain limitations Imitations It would tell him In tI time l' l that hat his beautiful wolf mother was blind but he would never know of that terrible battle between n Gray Wolf and the he lynx In which his mothers mother's sight md had been destroyed Nature could tell him ilm nothing of ot Kazan's merciless ven vengeance vengeance of ot the wonderful years ears of their of their loyalty their strange adventures ad In the great Canadian Canadian Cana Cana- dian dlan wilderness wilderness wilderness-It It could make him only a 8 son of ot Kazan And then came that wonderful day dayI when the greenish balls of ot fire that I were Kazan's Lazan's eyes ayes came nearer I and I nearer a I little We at a time and very I cautiously Heretofore Gray Wolf had hadI I warned him back To be alone was the first law of her wild breed during mothering A low snarl from her throat t and I Kazan azan had alwa always s 's stopped But on this da day the snarl did not come In Gray Wolfs Wolf's throat It died away In Ina InI I a low whimpering sound A note of or loneliness of gladness of If a great yearning It Is all aU right now she was saying to Kazan and Kazan Kazan- pausing for a moment to make sure sure sure- replied with an answering note deep in his throat thront Still slowly as If It not quite sure stare o of oP what he would find Kazan gazan came to I them and Baree snuggled closer to his mother He heard Kazan Kazanas as he dropped down heavily on his belly close to Gray Wolf He was unafraid and and mightily curious And Kazan too was curious He sniffed In In- Inthe the gloom his ears were alert After Atter a at aI t I little Baree began beg to move An Inch at a n time he dragged agge himself awa away from Crom Gray Wolfs Wolf's side Every muscle In her lithe body tensed Again her herI wolf blood was warning her here There I was wile danger for tor Baree Buree Her lier lips Ills d drew ew beck b k baring her fangs tangs Her lier throat trembled but the note In It never came Out of or the tIle d darkness two two yards away Voa came a soft son puppyish wl and the Ule caressing sound of Kazan's tongue Baree had relt the thrill of his first great adventure He lie had discovered his father t This nil all happened in the third week of ot Baree's es e's lifer life He lie was was j Just t st eighteen I days old when lien Gray Wolf 1 allowed Kazan Katan to make lUnke the acquaintance of his hisson I son Bon If It It had bad not been for Gray Wolfs Wolf's blindness blindness- and nd the memory of oi that day ny on the thc Sun rock when the lynx lynt laRd had destroyed her ber eyes Ib she would have given ghen birth tc to Baree Inthe in inthe the he open bad and nd his legs leg would woul Il lave have lv Ien en cn quite strong He lIe would Kuld have known the sun and und the moon l J slid and andt tae ter t tr-j tr he lie would have lue realized I chat h t the thunder bunder mount meant and would Ill jOrr IJ a C Y r C lull bave have seen the lightning flashing inthe In Inthe Inthe the sky But as It was there had been nothing for him to do In that that black cavern under the windfall but stumble about a little in the darkness and lick with his tiny red tongue the raw bones that were strewn about them Many times he bad been left lett alone He lie had llad heard his mother conic come and go and nearly always It had been In response to a yelp elp from Kazan that came to them like a distant echo He had never felt a very strong desire to follow until this day when Kazan's big cool tongue caressed his face tace In those wonderful seconds nature was af nt work Ills His Instinct was not quite born until then And Andl when Kazan went away leaving them alone In darkness Baree whimpered for him to come comeback comeback comeback back Just as he lie had cried for tor his mother when now and then she had left him In response to her mates mate's call The sun was straight above o the forest forest forest for for- est when an nn hour or two after atter Kazan's visit Gra Gray Wolf slipped away Between Between Be Be- Between tween Baree's nest and the top of ot the windfall were forty feet of ot Jammed and broken timber through which not nota a 00 ray of light could break brenk This blacky blacke black black- e y 31 t 1 Q Everywhere He Looked He Could See Strange Things ness did not frighten him for tor he had yet to learn the meaning of ot light Day and not night was to fill him with his first great terror So quite fearlessly he began to follow If It Gray Wolf heard him she paid no attention to his call and the scrape of ot her claws clawson on the dead timber died away s swiftly This time Baree did not stop at the Inch eight log which had always shut In his world In that particular tion He clambered to the top of ot It and rolled over o on the other side Beyond Beyond Beyond Be Be- yond this was vast adventure and he plunged Into It courageously It took him a long time to make the first twenty yards ards Then he came to a alog alog alog log worn smooth by the feet teet of ot Gray GrayWolf GrayWolf Wolf and Kazan and stopping every few tew feet to send out ont a whimpering call for fort forr his mother he made his wa way farther and farther tarther along It As he went there grew slowly a curious change In In Inthis this world of his He had known nothing b but t blackness And now this blackness ess seemed breaking Itself up up Into strange shapes and shadows Once he caught the flash of ot ofa ota a fier fiery streak above hum n him a gleam of ot sunshine sunshine and and It startled him so that he flattened himself down upon the log and did not move mo for half a minute Then he went on An ermine squeaked under him lIe He heard the swift rustling of ot a squirrels squirrel's feet teet and a curious that was not at all like Uke any sound his mother had ever made He was off of the trail The log was no longer smooth and It was leading him upward higher and higher r Into the tangle of ot the windfall and was growing narrower every fool foot he progressed He whined His Ills soft soCI little nose sought vainly for tor the warm scent of his mother The end came calie came u u un r G. G r Jl I suddenly when he lost his balance and fell He lie let out a piercing cr cry of otter terror terror ter ter- as he be felt himself slipping and then plunged ed downward He must have been high up In the windfall for tor forto forto torto to Baree It was a tremendous fall taU His soft little bod body thumped from log to log as he shot this tills way and that and when at last he stopped there was scarcely a breath left In him But he stood up quickly on his four trembling legs legs and and blinked A Anew new terror held Baree rooted there In an Instant the whole world had hall changed It was a flood of ot sunlight Everywhere he looked he could see strange things s. But it was the sun that frightened him most It was his first impression of fire and It made his eyes eres smart He lie would have slunk back Into the friendly gloom of ot the windfall windfall wind wind- fall but at this moment Gray Wolf came around the end of ot a 00 great log followed by Kazan She muzzled Baree Joyously and Kazan In a most doglike fashion wagged his tall tail This mark of ot the dog was to be a part of oC Baree Half wolf he would always wag his tall tali He tried to wag It now Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps Kazan saw the effort for tor he emitted a muffled yelp of ot approbation as he sat back on his haunches Or he might have been saying to Gray Wolf Well weve we've got the little rascal out of ot that windfall at last haven't we wei For Baree It had been a n great day He had bad discovered his father father and and the world And It was a wonderful world world world-a a world of ot vast silence empty of ot everything everything every every- thing but the creatures of ot the wild The nearest Hudsons Hudson's Bay post was a hundred miles away and the first town of civilization was a straight three hundred to the south Two years before before be he- fore the Cree trapper had called this his domain It had come comedown down to him as was the law of ot the forest through generations of forefathers forefathers fore fore- fathers lathers but had been the last of ot his family he had died of ot smallpox and his wife and his children children children chil chil- dren had died with him Since then no human foot had taken up his trails The lynx had multiplied The moose and caribou had gone by man The beaver had built their homes undisturbed The tracks of ot the black bear benr were as thick as the tracks of ot the deer tart farther her south And where once the and poison baits of ot had kept the wolves thinned down there was no longer a menace for far these of ot the wilderness Following the sun of this first wonderful wonderful wonderful won won- day came the moon and the tho stars of ot Baree's first real night It was a splendid night and with It a full red moon sailed up over the forests forests for tor- ests flooding the earth with a n new kind of ot light softer and more beautiful ful to Baree The wolf was strong In him and he was restless He had bad slept that day In the warmth of the sun but he could not sleep In this glow of ot the moon He nosed uneasily about Gray Wolf who lay flat fiat on her belly her beautiful head alert listenIng listening listen listen- Ing yearningly to the night sounds and for tor the tonguing of ot Kazan who h had d gone like a shadow to the hunt Half Halt a dozen times as Baree Daree wandered wandered wandered wan wan- dered about near the windfall he heard a soft whir over oyer his head and once or twice he saw gray shadows floating swiftly through the air The They were the big northern owls swooping down tc to Investigate n estl ate him and If It he had been a rabbit Instead of ot a wolf dog whelp his first night under the moon and stars would have been his last for lor unlike e the rabbit he was not cautious Gray Wolf did not watch him closely Instinct told her that In these forests there was no great dan dun danger danger ger for or Baree except at the hands of ot man In his veins ran the blood ol of the wolf lIe He was a n hunter of ot all other wild creatures but no other creature either winged or fanged hunted him I What an appealing little wild creature Is this Baree part Baree-part part dog I part wolf I ITO iTO I II TO BE CONTINUED I I h u hu un |