| Show 7 son of kazan zan by JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD Q doubleday fare A C co service PART FART DOG tart PART WOLF tills stirring atory of the canadian wilderness la Is net so 0 o much A sequel as alt it la is ft a successor to james oliver Cu Cur wooda dog else clan do ale kazan ano and it stands on its own merits it Is a dor doe story but it has all human elements that malco make it good reading love lova adventure and fighting there to Is the lovely french indian girl Ne P pierrot berrot the trapper the sinister bash ble Taggart carvel carfel the adventurer and in their lives varce saree plays playa a thrilling part a major role part dog doc and part wolf bares Is dog doe when it cornea comes to serving his hia fir friends linds and wolf when he wreaks vengeance on his enemies barbea I 1 intelligence n t ell g loen ne e Is III almost human an and d in his courage there to Is no fault in the beginning baree baaree Is as wild as aniber any kotlier wild thing of the silent places acell but he cornea comes in to touch uch with civilization through hits his love tor for the lovely and through his hatred tor for the villain factor through his loyalty to the lovable adventurer carvel 1 and it Is in bares who brings together carvel and tepees Ne pees chapter I 1 to baree baaree tor for many days daya after he was born the world was waa a vast gloomy cavern during these first days of 0 lilg ills life his big home was in the heart of a great windfall where gray wolf his big blind mother had found a safe nest tor for ills his babyhood and to which kazan her mate came only now and then ills his eyes gle gleaming alining like strange balls of greenish ire fire in the darkness it was kabans eyes that gave to buree ills his first impression of so something methin existing way away from his big mothers side and they brought to him also his discovery of vision he could feel he could smell lue lie could hear bear but in that pit under the fallen timber ile he had never seen een until the eyes came at first they frightened him then they puzzled blin and his big fear ell changed anaed to an immense curiosity ile he would be looking straight at them when whenn all ll at once they would disappear this ans when kazan turned ills head and then they would flash back at him again out of tile the darkness with will such startling sv at denness that baree baaree would involuntarily shrink c loser closer to ills his mother who always alc trembled and shivered in it a strange sort of way when kazan came in baree baaree of course would never kno know ly their story lie ile would never know that gray wolf ills his mother was a full blooded wolf and that kazan his father at lier was a log dog in him mature was already beginning its wonderful work but it would never go beyond certain limitations it would tell him in time that hla beautiful wolf mother was blind but he would never know of that terrible battle between gray wolf and the lynx in which his mothers sight had been destroyed nature could tell him nothing of kabans merciless ven tell ol of the wonderful years of their of their loyalty their strange adventures in the grent great canadian wilderness it could make him only a son of kazan and then came that wonderful day when the greenish balls of fire that were kabans eyes came nearer and nearer a little at a time anti and very cautiously heretofore gray wolf had lind warned jilin him back to be alone was the first law of her wild breed durin during g mothering time A low snarl from her throat and kazan had always stopped L but on tiia lilt day the snarl did not come in gray wolfs throat it died away in a low whimpering sound A note of loneliness of gladness of a great yearning it la is all right now she was saying to kazan and kazan pausing for a moment to make sure replied with an ah answering note deep in his throat still slowly as if not quite sure of what he would find kazan came to them and baree baaree snuggled closer to li his is mother ue ile heard kazan as lie ile dropped down heavily oil ad ills his belly close to gray aray wolf lie he was unafraid and mightily curious and kazan too was curious ile he sniffed in the lie gloom his ears can were alert after n little baree baaree began to move an inch at a time he drugged dragged himself awry away tram from gray wolfs side every muscle to in her little lithe badir tensed again tier her wolf blood was warning her there was danger for baree baaree her lips drew asek baring her fangs her throat trembled but the note in it never came out of at the lie darkness two yards away came a softy soft puppyish PUPI pup whine and the lie caressing sound of kabans Is tongue baree baaree lied reft the thrill ot of his first great adventure ile he had discovered his father this all happened in the third week of charees life he was just eighteen days day old when gray wolf allowed kazan to mate make tile lie acquaintance of his ton son if it had not been for gray wolfa blindness and the memory of 0 that day on the sun san rock when the lynx lind destroyed her eyes she would have given birth to lc baree baaree in the open and his legs would have hare been quite strong lie ho would have incon the sun find and the moon end and tile lie sti lir tirs lie he would have re realized alfted whit hn ohp tip thunder enfant gintaut and would have seen the lightning flashing in the sky but ma u it was there had been nothing for him to do in tint that black cavern under the windfall but stumble about a little in the darkness and lick with his tiny red tongue file he raw bones that were strewn about them many times lie he had been left alone ile he hatt had heard ills mother come and go and nearly always it had been in response to a yelp from froin kazan that come came to lo them like a distant echo lie he had never felt a very strung strong desire to follow until this illy day when KlI kabans big cool tongue caressed ills his face in those wonderful seconds second nature was at work ills instinct wits not quite born until then and when kazan went away leaving them alone in darkness bares whimpered for him film to come back just no as lie he had cried for ills his nio mother ther when now and then she till had left him in response to 0 o tier her mates call the sun was straight abaye the lie forest when an hour or two after kabans visit gray wolf slipped away between bareis nest find and the top of the windfall were forty feet of jammed an and broken timber through gl which not a ray of light could break tills this black everywhere he looked he could see strange things ness did not frighten him for he had iet to learn the meaning of light day and not night was to fill him with ills his first great terror so quite fearlessly lie began to follow if gray wolf heard him she paid no attention to tits his call and tile scrape of her claws on tile the dead timber philbe died away swiftly this time baree baaree did not stop at the eight inch log which had always shut in ills his world in that particular direction lie clambered to the top of it and rolled over on the other side beyond this was wag vast adventure and he plunged into it courageously it took him a long time to make the first twenty yards then he came calne to a log worn smooth by the feet of gray wolf and kazan and stopping every few feet to send out a whimpering call tor for III his mother he made ills his way further farther and farther along it IL As he went there grew slowly a curious change in this world of tits his lie ile had known nothing but blackness and now this bladel ness seemed breaking itself up into strange shapes and shadows once he caught the flash of a fiery break above him a gleam of sunshine and it startled jilin him so that he flattened down upon the log and did not move for halt half a minute then he be went on an ermine squeaked under him ile he heerd the swift rustling of a squirrels feet and a curious that was wag not at all like any ally sound tits ills mothes had ever made ile he was off the trail the alie log vas Is no longer smooth and it was leading him upward higher and higher into the alie tangle of the aln dyoll and was growing narrower every foot fool I 1 progressed ue he whined ills ilia soft little nose sought vainly for the warm scent of ills his mother the end came niky kaika iKa Ks suddenly when he lost his bis balance and tell fell ue lie let out nut a piercing cry ot of terror as he felt himself slipping and then hen plunged downward lie must have been high up in the windfall fall for to baaree baree it ans i a tremendous fall ula his soft little body bodt thumped from log fog to log as he shot tills this way kay and that find and when at last lie he stopped slopped there was waa scarcely it a breath left in him hut but lit he stood up quickly on tits his tour four trembling legs and blinked A new terror held baree baaree rooted there in tin an instant the whole world hail had changed it wua was a hood flood of sunlight everywhere he looked lie he could we gee strange things but it was the sun that frightened him most it wits was his first impression of fire and it made hl his eyes smart smarr lie ile would have slunk back into the friendly gloom of the windfall but at this moment gray wolf came around the end of a great log followed by kazan she muzzled baaree baree joyously and kazan in a most doglike fashion wagged his tall this mark of the dog wits was to be a part of caree halt half wolf he would always wag ills hla tali ile he tried to wag it now perhaps kazan saw the effort for he emitted a muffled yelp ot of approbation as lie sat gat back on oil ills his haunches or he might have been saying to gray wolf well weve got the tittle little ducal out of that windfall vind fall at last r d T par for buree it had been a grei gre day he had discovered his father and the world and it was a wonderful world a world of vast silence empty of everything but the creatures erca tures of the wild the nearest hudsons Hud flud sons ions bay post was a hundred miles away and the first town of civilization was ans a straight three hundred to the south two years yeara bei be tore fore the cree trapper had bad called this ills domain it had come down dovin to him as was the law of the forest through generations of fore ore fathers but had been tile lie last of its ils workout family he had bad lied died of smallpox and his wife and his children lind bad died with him film since then no human foot lind had taken up his trails the lynx had multiplied the moose and caribou had gone by man tile the beaver had bulit built their chely homes wi undisturbed disturbed tile the tracks of that the black bear were as thick as the tracks racks of the deer further south and where once the and poison halts of lind had kept the lie wolves thinned down there was no longer a menace for these molie kuns of the wilderness following the sun of this first wonderful day chine came the moon and tile the stars of barbes first real night it I 1 was a splendid night and with it a full red moon sailed up over the for ests eats flooding the earth with a new kind of light softer and more beaucl ful to baaree baree the wolf was strong in him and lie was restless lie he had slept that day in the warmth of tile sun but lie could not sleep in this glow of the moon he nosed uneasily about gray wolf who lay flat on tier her belly tier lier beautiful head alert listen ing yearningly to the night sounds and for the tonguing of kazan who had gone like a shadow to the hunt halt a dozen times as baaree baree van mn dered about near the windfall lie heard a soft whir over tits his head and once or r twice he saw gray shadows slin dovia floating swiftly through the air they were tile the big nort northern Lern owls swooping down to investigate him and if lip lie had been a rabbit instead of a wolf dog whelp his first night under the inona and stars would have been ills his last for unlike the rabbit tie lie was wag not cautious gray wolf did not watch aitch him closely clo instinct told tier her that in these thebe forests there was wag no great danger for baree baaree except at the hands of 0 man in its his veins ran the blood ol of the wolf lie he was a hunter of all oher I 1 wild creatures but bill no other creature either winged or fanged hunted jilin i what an appealing a ppe aling little wild creature 1 lc this barce part dog part wolf I 1 TO BE BB CONTINUED K |
