Show 1 BT Y B- B SON OF F KAZAN ZAN I fP by JAMES AMES OLIVER Ou VL C r COPYRIGHT BY G l' l 8 I NARROW ESCAPE Synopsis Part Part wolf part dog when twp months old Barco Darco has his first filst meeting with nn ten enemy y o 0 u n g e gowl gowl owl Fighting hard the antagonists antagonists antagonists are suddenly plunged Into a swollen creek Badly buffeted and h half lt drowned Baree Daree Is finally final final- finally ly flung on the ban bank Ie but the water haw has destroyed his sense of direction and he Is lost lonely and hungry For many days his life is otto one of ot fear tear and distress Ho He meets various creatures of ot the wild and goes through h a thunderstorm He Is learning more and more Ho lie strays Into the trapping grounds of ot Pierrot and wounds Bares Baree with a rifle but he es se- se capes Baree recovers and learns natures nature's secrets rapidly Is determined to catch Baree Daree and tame him and tries a again aln Chapter IV Continued IV-Continued Continued 8 Barce Baree darted to one side and ran for tor the open meadow Wakayo did not stir as Baree Barel sped past him him no no nomore more than If It he had been a bird or a n rabbit Then came another breath of ot air heavy with the scent of man This at last put life Into him He TIe turned and began lumbering after Baree Into the meadow trap Baree Barce looking back saw him coming coming and and thought It was pursuit and Pierrot came over o the slope and at atthe atthe atthe the same Instant they saw and Baree When they bey entered Into the grassy dip under the rock walls Baree turned sharply to the right Here was a great boulder one end of It tilted up off the e earth rth It looked like a splendid splendid did dill hiding place and Baree Daree crawled crawled under It But Dut kept straight ahead into the meadow From where he lie In lay Baree Daree could se sec what happened Scarcely had he crawled under the rock roce when and Pierrot appeared through the break In the lip dip and stopped The fact tact that they stopped thrilled Baree Daree They were afraid of I The big bear was two thirds of the way across the meadow The sun fell feU on him so his coat cont shone like black satin I Pierrot did dirl not 1 kill for the love lo of killing lolling Necessity made him a neon neon- conservationist con con- But he saw saw that In spite of the lateness of the season Waka Waka- yoo's OOS c coat at was splendid splendid and and he raised his rifle Baree saw this tills action He TIe saw a moment later something spit from the end of the gun and then he heard beard that deafening crash that had come with his own own hurt when the Willows Willow's bullet had burned through his flesh HP He turned his eyes swiftly to Waka Waka- yoo The big bear had bad stumbled he was on his knees es and then he struggled struggled up and lumbered on The roar of ot- the rifle came again and a second time went down Pierrot could not miss at that distance made a mark It was slaughter yet for Pierrot and It business business- Nt was the business of life Baree Barce was shivering It was more more from excitement than fear for he had lost his hi own fear in is the tragedy of these 1 A low whine rose In Jn his throat as he looked at who had risen again and faced his enemies his enemies his Jaws gaping his head swinging slowly his legs weakening under him as the bl blood od poured through his torn lun lungs lung's S Baroe Baree whined whined whined-be- be because cause had fished for him him because he had hod come to look on him himas himas himas as a friend and because he knew v It was death that was facing now There was a n third shot the shot the last Vf lYlo sank down In to his tracks Ills bl big head dropped between between be be- tween his f forepaws ws A racking cough or two came to tu Baree Daree And then there was silence It was wa slaughter slaughter but but business A minute later tater standing over said to Mon Ion DIeu but It is a n line fine skin I It Is worth Is-worth worth twenty dollars over at Lac Bain I He TIe drew forth his knife and began whetting It on a stone which he lie carried car car- car 5 ried In his pocket In these J minutes Baree might have crawled out from under his rock and es escaped down the cnn canyon on for tor a space he was forgotten Then thought of him and In that same strange stange wondering voice she the spoke again agan word Baree Pierrot who whit was kneeling looked up At et her Oui t t. t He lIe was born of the wild And now flow he Is gone Con The Tho Willow shook her head Non he Is not gone she said and her ber dark eyes ees quested the sunlit meadow As she quested the ragged edges of the he little meadow for signs of the dog dog- pUP her thoughts ed back k swiftly l S i KS They had hurled burled her princess mother under the tall taIl spruce pruce their That day Pierrot's sun had set sN for nil all time and her own life was filled with a n vm vast t loneliness There had been three at the graveside e that afternoon as the sun went down Pierrot herself and a dog a n great powerful husky with a white star on his breast and a white-tipped white car ear lIe He had hind b been en her dead mothers mother's pet from her her bodyguard with her always even with his head resting on the side of her bed as she died And that night the night of the day they burled her the dog had disappeared lIe He had gone as quietly and as completely completely com com- plc tel as her spirit No one ever e saw him after that It vas was strange and to Pierrot It was a n miracle Deep In his bis h heart art he was filled with the won wonderful wonder wonder- er ful conviction that the dog had gone with his beloved Wyola Into heaven But nut had spent three winters winters win win- at the Missioners Missioner's school at Nel Nelson son house She had learned a great deal about white people and the real God and she knew that Pierrot's thought was Impossible She believed that her mothers mother's husky was either dead or had joined the wolves Probably Probably Probably ably he had gone to the So So- So was It not possible that this youngster she and her father had hall pursued was of the flesh and blood of her mothers mother's pet It was more than possible The white star on his breast the white- white tipped ear the ear the fact that he had not bitten her when he might easily have hac burled buried his fangs In n the soft flesh of her arms I She was convinced While Pierrot skinned the bear she site began hunting for Dar Baree e. e Baree Daree had not moved mo an Inch from under his rock lie lay lik a thing stunned his eyes fixed steadily on the scene of the tragedy out In the meadow lIe He had seen something that he would never ne forget forget even even as us he would never quite forget t his mother w h I M w Ma I mill arid Kazan and the old windfall ll He TIc had bad witnessed the death of the creature crea crea- creature ture he lie had thought all the big bear had hind not even put up a fi fight ht Pierrot and had killed him without touching him now Pierrot was cutting him with a knife which shot silver silvery flashes In the sun and Watta oo made no move move- ment It made Baree Daree shiver and he drew himself an un Inch farther back under the rock where he l was already wc wedged gell as If he had hall been shoved there thereby thereby thereby by a strong hand lIe He could see She came straight back to the break through which his flight had taken him him and stood at last not more than twenty feet from where he was hidden Now Now that she stood where he lie could not nol escape escape she began weaving her shining shining shin shin- ing hall hair Into two thick lids Barce Ilaree had hall taken talen his e eyes es from Pierrot an and he watched her her- curiously lIe He was teas not not afraid now ills His pen nerves s tingled In him a strange and growing force was struggling to strive a great mys ms mystery tery the tel the reason for his dc desire he to creep out from under his rock and approach approach ap ap- that wonderful creature the shining e eyes es and the beautiful hair was looking about her She was smiling For a moment her face was WIS turned town toward Ill I'll him and he saw the white shine of or her teeth and her no he-no e eyes es seemed glowing straight at nt him And then ru suddenly she dropped on her knees and peered Under tinder th the rock Their eyes met I For or at nt least least halt half halfa a minute there was was was' not a n a sound did not move and her breath came so softly that Baree Duree could not hear henr it Then she said almost In n a whisper Baree I Bared Daree I Up Upi Bared Barce It was the tho lie time Baree Dalee had haa heard his name nome and there thero was something something some some- thing so soft and assuring In the sound of It that In spite of ot himself th dog ln l hira responded to It In ln a 4 T f s I b I whimper that Just I reached th thi WI I lows low's ears Slowly she stretched In Inan Inan an nn arm It was bare and round and soft sort lie He might have darted forward the length of his body bOOy and burled buried his fangs In It easily But Dut something held him back lie He knew that It was not an nn enemy he know that the dark eyes shining shining- at him so wonderfully were not filled with the desire to harm harmand harmand harm harm- and the voice that came to him softly was like e a strange and thrilling music Baree I Baree I Daree Baree I I Over and mill over again the Willow v called aIled to him like e that while on her face she tried to to draw herself herselt a fe fett feu Inches farther under the rock She could not reach him There was still sUt stilla a foot between her hand and Baree Ilaree and she could not wedge herself In an anInch anInch aninch Inch more And then she saw whereon whereon where where- on the ot other er side of the rock there was a 11 hollow hollo shut In by a n stone If It she had removed the stone and come comeIn comeIn comein In that way way way- She drew herself out and stood once more In the sunshine Her lIer heart thrilled Pierrot was busy over his hlo bear bear and and she would not call him She made an effort to move the stone which closed In the hollow under the big bowlder but it was wedged In tightly Then she began digging with witha a n stick If Pierrot had been there his sharp e eyes es would have discovered the significance of that stone which was not larger than a water p lI Possibly for centuries It had lain there Its support keeping the huge rock from toppling down Just as an weight ounce-weight may swing the balance of a wheel that weighs a ton Five minutes minutes and and could move the stone She tugged at nt It Inch b by Inch she dragged It o out t until at nt last It In lay at her feet and the opening was ready for her bod body She looked looted again toward vard Pierrot He was still hus busy and she laughed softly as she untied a big red and Bay Day handkerchief from about her ders With this she would secure Baree Daree She dropped on her hands and knees and mid then lowered herself flat flaton flaton flaton on the ground and began crawling Into the hollow under the bowlder Baree had moved With the back backof of his head hearl flattened ned against the rock he had heard something which had not heard he lie had felt feJt a slow and growing pressure and from this pressure pres pres- pressure sure he lie had dragged himself slowly slowly- and the Uie pressure still followed The mass of rock was settling did not see or hear or understand She was WIS calling aIlIng to him more and more pleadingly Baree Baree Daree Baree Baree Baree Her TIer head and shoulders and both arms were under the rock now The glow of her eyes was very close to Baree He lIe whined The rhe thrill of ot a great and Impending danger stirred In his blood And then then then- In that moment felt the pressure of tile the rock rock on her shoulder and Into the that had been eyes ees glowIng glowIng glowIng glow- glow Ing softly at nt Baree Daree there shot a sudden sudden sud sud- den wild look 1001 of horror And then there came cume from her bet lips Ups a cry that was not like any other sound Baree Bares hal hail ever heard In n the wilderness wilderness- wild piercing filled with agonized fear Cear Pierrot did not hear that first cr cry But Dut he lie heard the second and the third third and and then scream after scream as the Willows Willow's tender body bolly was slowly crushed under the settling mass He ran toward It with the speed of the wind The cries were weaker weaker dying dying away lIe He saw Baree as he lie came out from under the rock and ran Into the canyon canon and In the same instant he saw a part of the Willows Willow's Willows Willow's Willows Willow's Wil Wil- lows low's dress and her feet The rest of her was hidden under the death th Like lAke a madman Pierrot began digging When a few moments later he drew ou out OUI from under the bowlder she was white and deathly death death- ly Jy sUll I ill Her tier eyes eJes were closed Ills land hand could not feel cel that sh was liv- liv ILg and a great moan of ot anguish an rose out of C his soul But he know knew how to fight for a life Ilfe He TIe tore ore open her dress s and found that she was not crushed as he had feared Then he heran heran heran ran for water When he lie returned the Willows Willow's eyes w were re open and she was gasping for breath The blessed saints be praised sob sobbed bell Pierrot falling on his knees at nt ather ather her side ma mn I I She smiled at him with her two hands on her bare breast and Pierrot hugged her up up to him forgetting the water he had run so hard to get Still later when when he got down on his knees and peered under the rock his his' face fuce turned white and he said Mon Ion DIeu If It had not be been n for fortha that tha t little hollow holl v In 10 the earth N lie shuddered and said no more But happy In her salvation ma made e a movement with her hand and suid said smiling at him I would J been heen like like that Ah mon pere pore I hope I shall never have havea a lover lo like that rock face darkened as he bent over O li her r. r I Non on I I h he suid suld fiercely Never l I It t He lIe was thinking g again again of g gart rt the factor at t Lac Bain and his hands clenched while his lips softly touched the Willows Willow's hair hall Will Baree finally come under the domination of TO BE DE CONTINUED |