Show BAREE Sow Son of Kazari Kazan j I I I I I Chapter VII Continued Vu-Continued Continued 13 13 Baree l I she he whispered taking his head bead In her ber hands Baree I Her touch thrilled him It sent little throbs through his body a tremulous quivering which she could feel teel and which deepened the glow In her eyes Gently her hand stroked his head and his back It seemed to that he did not breathe Under Under Un Un- der er the caress of her hand his eyes In another moment she was talking to him and at the sound of her voice his eyes shot open lie Ue will come corne here that here that beast beast- and he be will kill us she was saying He will kill you because you bit him Baree Ugh I wish you were bigger and stronger er so that you could take ore off his head hend for me I She was untying the b from about the table-leg table and Tinder order her breath she site laughed She was not frightened It was a tremendous adventure ad ad- venture venture and and she throbbed with exultation exultation ex at the thc thought of having beaten the man-beast man In her own way She could se see him in the pool struggling lIng and beating about like a great fish He was Just about crawling out of the chasm now now and she laughed again as she caught Baree up under her arm Oh Oh hut Oh nao but nao-but but you are heavy 1 she gasped And yet I must carry you you because because I am nm going to run I She hurried outside Pierrot had had hadnot not come and she darted swiftly Into the balsams back of the cabin with hung In the crook of her arm like a sack filled at nt both ends and tied In the middle He felt feltt like that too But he still had no Inclination to wriggle himself free ran with him until her arm ached Then she ehe stopped and put him down on his feet holding to the end of ot the cari cari- skin bou-skin thong that was tied about his neck And then the Willow spoke to him softly You are not going to run away awny Baree Non you are going to stay with me and we will kill that man man- beast If it he lie dares do to me again what he did back there She flung back the loose hair from about her flushed face and for a n moment she forgot Baree as she thought of that half minute at the edge of the chasm He was looking straight up at her when her glance lance fell on him again Non you are not going to run away you away you ar are are going to follow me she whis whis- Come The string tightened about Baree's neck as she urged him to fol fol- fol- fol 10 low It was like another snare rabbit-snare and he lie braced his fore feet and bared his fangs Just a a little The Willow WIlIO did Dot not pull pun Fea Fearlessly she sile put her hand on his h head nd again From the direction of the cabin came a shout and nt ROund sound of It she took Baree up up und under r h her her r rm ii re Bete bete noir bete noir I she site called back tauntingly but only loud enough to be heard he-ard a few yards away Go Goback Goback back bade to Lac Bain you Bain you wild beast I began to make her way swiftly through the forest It grew deeper and darker and there were no trails They came at last Into an nn I open It was a tiny meadow in the heart of the forest not more than three or four tour times as big as the cabin underfoot the grass was soft and green and thick with flowers Straight through the heart of this little oasis trickled a n streamlet across which the Willow Jumped with Baree under her arm and on the edge of therill therill the therill rill was a small wigwam made of freshly cut spruce spruce and balsam boughs Into her diminutive the Willow Willow Willow Wil Wil- low thrust h her r head to see that things were as ns she had left them yesterday Then with a long breath of relief she put down her legged four-legged burden and fastened the end of the to one of the cut spruce limbs Baree burrowed himself back Into the wall of the wigwam and with head alert and alert and eyes wide open open open- watched attentively what happened after this Not a movement of the escaped him She was radiant and and happy Her laugh sweet and wild wild- wildas as a birds bird's trill set set Baree's h heart art throbbing with a It desire to Jump about with her bel among the flowers For Fora a time seemed to forget forget torget for tor- get Baree Her lIer wild blood raced with the Joy of her triumph over the Factor Factor Factor Fac Fac- tor from Lac Bain She saw him again floundering about In the pool pool pool- pictured him at the cabin now soaked and nn angry ry demanding of mon p peje pere e where she had bad gone And mon inon pere with a shrug of his shoulders was telling him that he didn't know know that that probably she had run into the forest It did It-did did not enter Into her head bead that in tricking Bush In that way she had played with d dynamite She Shedid Shedid Shedid did not foresee the peril that In an nn Instant would have stamped the wild flush from her her face and curdled the blood In her veins veins did did not guess that I f had become for her a deadlier menace than ever er After ter a n little returned to Baree Daree She brought him water and gave Ease gave him a piece prece of ot raw fish For h hours rs they were vere alone and with each I hour there grew st stronger In Baree Bare the I d to follow the girl in every movement s she he made to crawl close to her when she sat down to feel teel the touch of her dress of at her hand and hand and hear benr her voice But ut he did not show this desire He e was still a n little savage savage sav sav- age of the forests forests s. four footed barbarian barbarian barbarian bar bar- barian born half halt of a wolf and half hat of a a dog dogs and he lay still With he be would have have pla played cd With he would hn have e fought At t B Bush he would have bared his fangs tangs and burled buried them deep when the chance ce cam camp nut flit the girl By JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD Q Doubleday Pate Pa P. A Co Ca was different Like the Kazan of old he had begun to worship If It the Willow Willow Willow Wil Wil- low had freed Baree he would not have run nun away His eyes were never away from her He lIe watched her build I a small fire and cook a piece of the fish He watched her eat her ber dinner It It was quite late In the afternoon when ben she came and sat down close to him with her lap full of flowers which she twined In the long shining braids of her hair Then playfully she began b beating nUng Baree with the end of one of these braids He shrank tinder under under un un- der the soft blows and with that low birdlike lau laughter In her throat Ne Ne- drew his head Into her lap where the scatter of flowers lay She talked 1 to him Her hand stroked his head lIe He breathed br In the flower- flower scented perfume of It and It-and and lay as ns If It dead It was a glorious moment Ne Ne- looking down doun on him could not I see sec that he was breathing There came an in interruption It was the thc snapping of a dr dry stick sUck Through the forest Pierrot had come with the stealth of a cat and when they looked up he stood at the edge of ot the open Baree knew that It was not Bush Mc Mc- Taggart But it was a man beast I J Ins In- In s r rM b M r r Her Half Wild Soul Thrilled to the the Crash and Fire of It his bod body stiffened under tI the Willows Willow's hand He drew back slowly ly and nn-d t r from her lap and as I Pierrot advanced n advanced Baree re The next Instant ha had risen and had nin to Pierrot The look In her fathers father's face alarmed her What has happened mon perell pere she cried Pierrot shrugged his shoulders Nothing ma except except that you have roused a thousand devils inthe In Inthe inthe the heart beart of the Factor from Lac Bain and that that-If that He Be stopped as he saw Baree and pointed at him Last night when the Factor caught him in a n snare he bit hand 1 hand Is swollen twice tice Its size and I can see his blood turnIng turning turn turn- Ing black It Is 1 gasped She SlIe looked Into Pierrot's eyes They were dark and filled with a sinister gleam gleam n a flash of exultation she thought Yes It Is the poison blood said Pierrot A gleam of cunning shot Into his hiss eyes as he looked over his shoulder shoulder shoulder der and nodded I 1 have hidden the tile medicine medicine and and told him there is no notime notime no notime time to lose In getting back to Lac Bain And he be Is afraid that afraid that devil 1 I He Is waiting With that blackening hand he Is afraid to start back alone and and so I go with Ith him And listen ma We will by sundown sundown sundown sun sun- down and there Is something you ou must know before I go Baree saw them there close together together together to to- gether In the shadows thrown by the the tall spruce trees He heard the low murmur of their voices voices chIefly chiefly of Pierrot's and at nt last he saw saw- ese put her two arms up around the man man- beasts beast's neck and then Pierrot W went away again Into the forest He thou thought ht that the Willow would never turn her herK K r r. r 1 2 face toward him after that For Forlong I a along long time she stood looking In the direction di dl which Pierrot had bad taken And when after a time she turned and came back to Baree she did not look like the who had bad been twInIng twinIng twin- twin Ing lag flowers In her hair The laughter was gone from her ber face and eyes She knelt down beside him and with sudden sudden sudden sud sud- den fierceness she cried It is It la is Baree Barce I It was you you who you who put the poison In his blood And I hope he dies 1 I For I am afraid afraId afraId-afraid afraid 1 l She shivered Perhaps It it was In this moment that the Great Spirit of things meant Baree Batee Ba Ba- Baree Ba- Ba ree tee to understand understand that that at last it iL was given him to comprehend that his bis day had dawned that the rising and the setting of at his sun no longer existed in inthe inthe inthe the sky fly but In this girl whose hand band rested on his head lie He whined softly and inch by Inch he dragged himself nearer to her until again his head rested In the hollow of at her lap For a long time after Pierrot left them the Willow did not move from where she had seated herself beside Baree It was at last the deepening shadows and a near rumble in the sky that roused h lie her r from the fear of the things Pierrot had told her When she looked up black clouds were massing slow slowly 1 over o the open space above the spruce Darkness was falling In the whisper of ot the wind and the dead stillness of the thickening gloom there was was the sullen brewing of storm shivered and rose to her feet For the first time Baree got up and he stood close at her side Above them a lightning-flash lightning cut the clouds like a knife of fire followed In an Instant instant Instant In In- stant by a terrific crash of at thunder Baree shrank back as if struck by a ablow blow He would have slunk Into the shelter of the brush wall of the wigwam wig warn but there was something about the Willow as he looked at her which gave him confidence The thunder crashed again agnin But he retreated no farther His His' eyes were fixed on Ne- Ne pe se She stood straight and slim In th that t gathering gloom riven by the lightning lightning light light- ning her beautiful head thrown back her lips parted and her eyes glowing with an almost eager a anticipation a sculptured goddess welcoming with bated breath the onrushIng forces of the heavens Perhaps It was because she was born on a night of storm Many times Pierrot and the dead princess mother had told her ber that that that- how bow on the night bight she had come coe Into the world the crash of ti under thunder r and the flare fine of lightning had made the hours bours an Inferno how the streams had burst over their brinks banks and the stems of ten thousand forest trees had snapped In Its fury and fury and the beat of f the deluge on their cabin roof had drowned the sound of her mothers mother's pain a and d of her own first babyish Aeries crIes On that night It may may be e the Spirit of Storm was born In She loved to face It It as she was facing It now It made her forget all things but the splendid might of ot nature her wild half-wild soul thrilled to the crash and fire of It often she had reached up her bare arms and laughed with Joy Joyas as the thc deluge burst about her Even Een now she might have stood there In the little open until the rain fell If a whine from Baree had bad not turned her As the first big drops struck with the dull thud of leaden bullets about them sile she went with him into the balsam shelter r. r It seemed an nn Interminable Interminable Interminable In In- terminable time before the thunder rolled far to the east cast and the lightning lightning light light- ning died away into distant and Intermittent intermittent In- In Even Ev-en after atter that the rain fell for another hour Then It stopped as suddenly as It had be be- gun With a laughing gasp rose roseto roseto roseto to her feet The water gurgled in her moccasins as she walked out Into the open She paid no attention to Baree aI and and d he followed her Across the open In the treetops the last of the storm-clouds storm were drifting away awny looked down down and saw Ba Ba- ree He was was standing clear and un unleashed unleashed tin un- I leashed with freedom on all aU sides of him Yet he did not run He was waiting wet as a water-rat water with his eyes on her expectantly made a movement tow toward rd him and I hesitated No you ou will not run away Baree I I will leave you ou free And now we I must have a fire h Let us hunt for the Baree I TO BE DE CONTINUE C. 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