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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION, UTAH BAREE, Son of Kazan OUR COMIC Chapter VII Continued -- 1 By James . J o four-legge- d pool-pict- vo-n- s four-foote- d was different. Like the Kazan of old, he had begun to worship. If the Willow had freed Baree, he would not have run away. Hls eyes were never away from her. He watched her build a small Are and cook a piece of the fish. He watched her eat her dinner. It was quite late In the afternoon when 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 beating Baree with the end of one of these braids. lie shrank under the soft blows, and with that low, birdlike laughter In her throat, Nepeese drew hls head Into her lap, where the scatter of flowers lay. She talked to him. Iler hand stroked hls head. He breathed In the flower-scenteperfume of It and lay as If dead. It was a glorious moment. Nepeese, looking down on him, could not see that he was breathing. There came pn Interruption. It wns the snapping of a dry stick. Through the forest Ilerrot had come with the stealth of a cat, and when they looked up, he stood at the edge of the open. Baree knew that It wns not Bush t In- But It was a d man-beas- that For a long time she stood looking In the direction which Pierrot had taken. And when, after a time, she turned and came back to Baree, she did not look like the Nepeese who had been twining flowers In her hair. The laughter was gone from her face and eyes. She knelt down beside him and with sudden fierceness she cried: It Is pechlpoo, Baree! It was you you who put the poison In hls blood. And I hope he dies ! For I am face toward him after C.) WNU Barvle Bare!" ahe whispered, taking his bead In lier hands. Baree!" Her touch thrilled him. It sent little throbs through his body, a tremulous quivering which she could feel and which deepened the glow In her eyes. Gently her hand stroked his head and hls back. It qeemed to Nepeese that he did not breathe. Under the caress of her hand hls eyes Closed. In another moment she was talking to him, nnd at the sound of. her voice hls eyes shot open. lie will come here that beast and he will kill us," she was saying. "He will kill you because you bit him, Baree. Ugh, I wish you were bigger, and stronger, so that you could take off hls head for me! She was untying the bablche from nnd tinder her about the table-leg- , She was not breath she laughed. frightened. It was a tremendous adventure and she throbbed with exultation at the thought of having beaten the man beast In her own way. She could see him In the pool struggling nnd beating about like a great fish. He was Just about crawling out of the chasm now nnd she laughed again as she faught Baree up under her arm. Oh oopl-nabut you are heavy!" And yet I must carry she gasped. yon because I am going to run I" She hurried outside. Pierrot had not come, and she darted swiftly Into the halsnms back of the cabin, with Baree hung In the crook of her arm, like a sack filled at both ends and tied In the middle, ne felt like that, too. But he still had no Inclination to Nepeese ran wriggle himself free. with him until her arm ached. Then she stopped and put him down on hls feet, holding to the end of the thong that was tied about hls neck. And then the Willow spoke to him softly. "You are not going to run away, Baree. Non, you are going to stay with me, and we will kill that man-beaIf he dares do to me again what he did back there." She flung back the loose hair from about her flushed face, nnd for a moment she forgot Baree as she thought of that half minute at the edge of the chnsin. He was looking straight up at her when Non, her glance fell on him ngaln. you are not going to run away you are going to follow me," she whisCome." pered. The bablche string tightened about Baree's neck as she urged him to follow. Tt was like another rabbit-snarnnd he braced hls fore feet and bared hls fnngs Just a little. The Willow did not pull. Fearlessly she put her hand on hls head again. From the direction of the cabin cdme a shout, nnd at the sound of It she took Baree up under her arm once more. Bete nolr bete nolr!" she called bnok tauntingly, but only loud enough Go to be heard a few yards away. back to Lnc Bain owases -- you wild beast 1" Nepeese began to make her way swiftly through the forest. It grew deeper and darker, nnd there were no trails. They came at last Into an It was a tiny meadow In the open. heart of the forest, not more than three or four times as big as the cabin ; underfoot the grass was soft nnd green, and thick with flowers. Straight through the heart of this little oasis trickled a streamlet neross which the Willow Jumped with Baree under her arm, nnd on the edge of the rill was a small wigwam made of freshly cut spruce nnd balsam boughs. Into her diminutive mekewap the Willow thrust her head to see that things were ns she had left them yesterday. Then, with a long breath of relief, she burden nnd put down her fastened the end of the bablche to one of the cut spruce limbs. Baree burrowed himself back Int0( the wall of the wigwam, and with head nlert and eyes wide open watched attentively what happened after this. Not a movement of the Willow escaped him. She was radiant and happy. Her laugh, sweet and wild as a birds trill, set Barees heart throbbing with a desire to Jump about with her among the flowers. For a time Nepeese seamed to forget Baree. Her wild blood raced with the Joy of her triumph over the Factor from I.ac Bain. She saw him ured again, floundering about in the him at the cabin now, soaked and angry, demanding of men pore where she had gone. And men pore, with a shrug of his slnui'ders, was tilling him that he didn't know that probably she had run Into the forist. It d'.d not enter Into her head that in truking Bus.i McTaggart in that way She she had played xvith dxn.unite. did not foresee the peril that in an 'ns' ant would have stamped the wild Chwh from hcF face ami curdled the did not guess rhat Mood in iter McTaggart hnd become for her ft deadlier menace than ever. After a little Nepeese returned to Baree. She brought him xvater nnd gave him a piece of raxv fish. For Iiours they xvere alone, and xvith each hour there grexv stronger in Baree the desire to folloxv the girl in every movement she made, to crawl close to her when she sat down, to feel the touch of her dress, of her hand and hear her voice. But he did not shoxv this desire. He was still a little savbarage of the forests t barian horn half of a wolf and half With of a dog; and he lay still. Umisk he would have played. With Oohoomisexv he would have fought. At Bush McTaggart he would have herpd hts fangs, and buried them deep when tne chance came. But the girl Oliver Curwood DoubUdtr. Fac SECTION 1 ' afraid afraid 1" She shivered. Perhaps It was In this moment that the Great Spirit of things meant Baree to understand that at last It was given him to comprehend that his day had dawned, that the rising and the setting of hls sun no longer existed In the sky, but In this girl whose hand rested on hls head. He whined softly, and Inch by Inch he dragged himself nearer to her until again hls head rested In the hollow of 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 her from the fear of the things Pierrot had told her. When she looked up, black clouds were massing slowly over the open space above the spruce-tops- . Darkness was falling, In the whisper of the wind and the dead stillness of the thickening gloom there was the sullen brewing of storm. Nepeese shivered and rose to her feet. For the first time Baree got up, and he stood close at her side. Above them a lightning-flascut the clouds like a knife of fire, followed In an in- stant by a terrific crash of thunder. Baree shrank back as If struck by a blow. He would have slunk Into the shelter of the brush wall of the wig- warn, but there was something about the Willow as he looked at her which gave him confidence. The thunder crashed ngaln. But he retreated no farther. Hls eyes were fixed on Ne- peese. She stood straight and slim In that gathering gloom riven by the lightning, her beautiful head thrown back, her lips parted, and her eyes glowing with an almost eager anticipation a sculptured goddess welcoming with bated breath the onrushing forces of the heavens. Perhaps It was because she xvas born on a night of storm. Many times Pierrot and the dud princess mother had told her that hoxv on the night she had come into the xvorld the crash of thunder and the flare of lightning had made the hours an Inferno, how the streams had burst over 'their hanks nnd the stems of ten thousand forest trees hnd snapped in Its fury and the beat of the deluge on their cabin roof hud droxvned the sound of her mothers pain, and of her oxvn first babyish cries. On that night. It may be, the Spirit of Storm xx ns horn In Nepeese. She loved to face It, as she was facing It now. It made her forget all things but the splendid might of nature ; her half-wilsoul thrilled to the crash and fire of It; often she had reached up her hare arms and laughed with Joy us the deluge burst about her. Even now she might have stood there in the little open until the rain fell, If a whine from Baree had not turned her. As the first big drops struck with the dull thud of leaden bullets about them, she went xvlth him Into the balsam shelter It seemed an Interminable time before the thunder rolled far to the east, and the lightning died away Into distant and Inafter that termittent flashings. the rain fell for another hour. Then It stopped as suddenly as It had be- gun. With a laughing gasp Nepeese rose to her feet. The water gurgled In her moccasins as she walked out Into the open. She paid no attention to Baree and he followed her. Across the open In the treetops the last of the storm-cloud- s were drifting axvay. Nepeese looked down and saw Ba- ree. He was standing clear and un- leashed, xvith freedom on all sides of him. Yet he did not run. lie was with hls waiting, wet as a xvater-rat- , eyes on her expectantly. Nepeese made a movement toward him, and hesitated. No, you will not run axvay, Baree. I xvill leave you free. And now we Let us hunt for the must have a lire wuskxxl, Baree." ; j j h Hr Half Wild Soul Thrilled to the Crash and Fire of It. stantly hls body stiffened under the Willows hand. lie drew back slowly and cautiously from her lap, and as Ilerrot advanced, Baree snarled. The next Instant Nepeese had risen und had run to Pierrot. The look In her fathers face alarmed her. What has happened, mon pere? she cried. Pierrot shrugged hls shoulders. "Nothing, mu Nepeese except that you have roused a thousand devils In the heart of the Factor from Lac Bain and that lie stopped as he saw Baree, and pointed at him. Last night when M'sieu the Factor caught him In a snare, he hit M'sleus hand. Msleus hand is swollen twice Its size, and I can see hls blood turning black. It Is pechlpoo." Peehlpoo ! gasped Nepeese. She looked Into Pierrot's eyes. They were dark, and tilled with a sinister gleam a flush of exultation, she thought. said Yes, It Is the Pierrot. A gleam of cunning shot Into hls eyes ns he looked oxer his shoulI have hidden the der, and nodded. medicine and told him there Is no time to lose in getting back to Lac Bain. And he Is afraid that devil ! He Is waiting. With that blackening hand, he is afraid to start back alone nnd so I go xx 1th hltu. And listen, ma Nepeese. We will be axva.v by and there Is something you must knoxv before I go. Baree saw them there, close together in the shadows thrown by the tall spruce trees, lie heard the low murmur of their voices chiefly of Pierrots, nnd at last he saw Nepeese put her txvo arms up around the neck, and then 1iorrot xxvut away again Into the forest, lie thought that the Willoxv would nexer turn her blood-poison,- " sun-doxv- man-beas- ' Merely a LiT Detail MICKIE, THE PRINTER'S DEVIL j d Ex-e- i THE FEATHERHEADS Our Boy Friend ' - IM OONTA AND NOW. LET you WZYX FANS IN ON A folks , I Fe!ix j to a local feoBBY SOPCAKE IS IN proam is goins To ins f NOW WE WANT ALL YOU FOLKS To WfRfTE IN AND TELL US HOW YOU LL Slft-WSWHAT LIKE US MAAKr SECRET YES Sift A BEAL SECRET SHH listens LISTEN NON H0 tOYuH KNOW THE And play the Announcer FROM 'tic VS -- HERE'S A WIRE ALeE&Cb KIRS. SCREENING .BELLE SWAMP. OHIO COMING IN FINS THANKS M'RS SCREENING YoUQt ALL CtGHT-YJ- MAAM HA MA 1 (TO BE CONTINUED.) m Horrible Methods of Treating the Insane Until xvithin the last comury j persons were treated xxiih terrible j cruelty In nearly all "clxlli.ed countries, and as late as 17T0 lunatics were exhibited at public fairs in England, and ns late as 1815 there xvere exposures of terrible cruelties in the Bethlehem hospital In Frgland, and this led to gradual impro enients and the introduction of enlightened and scientific methods in the care of the mentally afflicted. One of the mildest of the old forms of treatment of mad people, nnd long In vogue at Strathfillan, lu Perthshire, Scotland, was connected with the observance of the festival of St. Fillan, a Scottish saint. Insane, people were dipped In the holy pool." where St, Fillan had bathed In the Seventh century. Many were connected quaint ceremonies with this ducking." After the Immersion the lunatics were herded to St. Fillans chapel, and strapped to left all night. the floor, to e Those xvho managed to free their bonds and escape were considered cured. Experience did not bear out this pious belief, however, and the custom gradually declined. -- 'baloy coast Live on Camels In - ha-ha- ! ANNOUNCER. IS GOING "Youft up f well now, Thanks, buddy The Tuareg, found over a large area northern Africa, are nomads who' live principally by means of, and on, camels. Tuareg women are as free as women In Britain. They go about unveiled, while the men are always veiled. 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