Show BAREE ARE E son of kazan chapter VII continued is 13 11 badeer she h whispered taking his bla head in lier her hands berea barcel I 1 tier touch thrilled him it sent lent little throbs through his hl body bod a ir tremulous emulous quivering which she he could feel and which deepened the tb glow low in her eyes gently her hand stroked ills head and his hl back it seemed to that lie did not breathe under the caret caress of her baud band hla his eyes closed in another moment inocent she alle was talking to him anil ani at the sound bound of her voice its ills eyes shot gliot open lie he will come here hem that beast and a nd lie he will kill 1111 us she ahe wits was saying 1 he will kill you because you bit him baree baaree UKI ugh I 1 w wish ish you were bigger and stronger so BO that you lyou could take off his hend head for me met site she was untying the from about tile tie table leir leg and under inder lier her breath she bilig hed she was wan not frightened it was a tremendous adventure tien ture and she throbbed with ex at the thought of having holn benten beaten the he man beast in her own she could see him film in the pool struggling and benting beating about abot like a great flah fish he wits nas just about crawling out of the now and slie she laughed again as she he fought baaree baree up under her arm oli oh bopf nao mao but you are heavy I 1 the mile gasped and yet I 1 must carry yon ron because I 1 am going to run I 1 she I 1 he hurried outside pierrot had not come and she ahe darted swiftly into tile the balsams back of we the cabin with paree hung in the crook brook of her arro arm like a sack rack tilled filled at both ends and tied in the middle lie ile felt like that thai too nut but he still had bad no inclination to wriggle himself free depee ran with him until her firm arm ached then title lie stopped and put him down on his feet holding to the end of the caribou akin thong that wits tied about ills his neck and then the willow spoke to him softly you are not going to run away haree non you are going to stay with me and we will kill that man beast it if lie fie dores do to me again what lie did back them she flung baak the loose hair from about her flushed face and for a moment she forgot caree an aa she thought of lint half at the edge of the chasm lie ile was looking straight up tip at tier her rifen tier der glance fell v on him film again non you are not going to run away you sire re going to follow m she wills coine the ha habiche string tightened about badeen neck as she urged him film to follow it wits was like another rabbit snare and lie braced his big forefeet fore feet and bared ills hla fangs just a little the willow did not pull fearlessly she ghe put tier lier hand on his head again prom froin the direction of the cabin clime camo a shout and at the sound of it she took ratree laree up under her arni ono more bete bete nol noar she called baek tauntingly but only loud enough to be hoard heard a few yards nay away io go badelt to lae lac baan onuses you on wild lintl lun tl V began to make tier her way through the forest it grew deeper and darker and there were no trails they mate nt at last lait into on an open it was a tiny meadow in tile heart of the lie forest not more than three or four times linos as big ns as the lie tr ablit underfoot tie he grass wits soft and areen kreen green and thick with flowers straight through the heart of this little oasis trickled a streamlet across the willow jumped with alth baaree baree under tier her arm and on the edge of the rill was waa a dinall wigwam made of frostily cut spruce and houghs into tier her diminutive wap the willow thrust tier lier head to see that things were as she hod find left them yesterday esterday eat erday then with a long breath 0 of relief she put down tier her four legged burden ano and fastened the lie end ot of lie to one of the cut spruce limbs ilaree burrowed himself back into the wall of 0 tile the wigwam and with hend alert ani and eyes ees wide open attentively what happened after tills this not a movement of tile the willow escaped film she wits was radiant anti happy her laugh set and wild as a birds trill set fi t Il ilarcec arces li livirt art throbbing with a desire to 10 jump with tier her among tile alie flowers lo ftera for a time loime to t for pet F ilaree tier wild wood aniced with the lh joy jo of her triumph oer the hie factor from froin lair bain she sau sat liliu bilu isan floundering flounda rant about in tina lie pool pl ailin at the cabin nv nr soaked an I 1 angry demanding of inam pere lir she had gime and mon liere ire uli a shrug of MR his sli us him lint hint lip lie t kni i iri Ally ill in he had run lutr into flit forst forast it biti not mil enier into in her r antl lint in tri triam lm li M in ili thit riby lie ilie hid had ti with etli ile slip mie not forchee the peril him ill 11 in ili nn an ll 11 alme ve tile wild id aih ernin li if fate and alip ile I 1 anil in tier veina did not guv s tillit t md lind become for tier lier it demiller benave than ever eier afier it little returned to slie brought him blin water anti glive ae him film n piece of raw ish fash for hours they hey were alone and nd with each ach hour there grew stronger in enree baaree the desire to follow the girl in every eer movement she ma made de to io crawl close cloe to tier her when she tat sat down to feel the touch of tier her dress dresa of her liand hand and hear her voice but he did not show this desire lie ile was still a little sm ral bre age of the forests s four footed fooled bar badinn born halt half of a wolf volf and half of A dog and he lay with will he would have played with h he would have fought J at hush bush Uc Taggart he would have his fang s and burled buried them deep ja I 1 f when uie chance chalice came hut but the girl by JAMES CURWOOD 0 doubleday pa getil C batte was x different like jike the kazan of old he fie had begun to worship if the willow had freed barce he be would I 1 not dot hove have run away ills eyes were never away from tier her lie he watched her build a 4 small fire and cook a piece of the fish lie he watched her eat her dinner it was quite late in the afternoon when she bhe came and ant at down close t to 0 him with her lap full of flowers which she twined in the long shining braids of her hair then playfully play fulli she bhe began beating burce with the end of one of these braids he shrank under the soft biehs alowa and with that low birdlike laughter in her throat ne drew draw his ha head into her lop where tile the scatter of howera flowers lay she talked to him her hand stroked his head lie ile breathed in the flower scented perfume of it and lay iny as if it dead it was a glorious moment ne pe ei looking down on him cluid could not see that he was there came ila in interruption it was the snapping of a dry stick through the lie forest areat pierrot had come with the stealth of a eat cat and when they looked up he stood at the edge of the open jj haree ree knew that it was not duah bush ic but it was a man beast I 1 in jill if y 7 lit 1 1 1 1 61 1 4 J ww her half wild soul thrilled to the crash and fire fir of it it his body stiffened under the willows hand lie ile drew back slowly and cautiously from tier her lap and as Iler pierrot rot advanced babee baree snarled the nett instant N leeso had risen and had run to pierrot rot the look in tier her fathers face alarmed her what has happened ulon pere site she cried pierrot shrugged ills his shoulders nothing nia except that you have roused a thou thousand devils in the heart of tile the factor from luc lac bain anil and that ile he stopped at as lie he sw saw ilaree and pointed at him last enst night when willett tile the factor caught him in a snare lie bit Al MB leus hand Ms leus hand Is swollen twice KB its size site and I 1 can see ills his blood turning black it Is pool gasped Ne she looked into pierrott Pier rots eyes they were dark und and filled with a sinister glearn a lush flush of 0 exultation she thought yes it la Is tile the blood poison said pierrot rot A glenin gleam of cunning shot into ills eyes as lie looked OUT ills shoulder and nodded 1 I havo have hidden the med medicine lettle and told him there Is no time to lose in getting buck back to lac bain and he Is afraid that deill I 1 ile he Is waiting with that blackening hand he Is afraid to start nick buck ultine alone and so at I 1 go with liliu him and listen nia ala deleese Ne leese we will ile be away by sundown and there Is something you must h know now before I 1 go baaree baree saw thein there then close together in the lie shadows linn by tile hie tall spruce trees lie he livard tile he lw of tile their r voices chiefly of if pierrott Pier rots and at last hist lie in sa RU nel nr ise i esi se put lier her two anus adiv up ill tile ilip imm beasts neck anti anil then illint Ili int vui avi vv ly ity into ill alic fitwi forest t n atit that tile willow all nimr turn inn her face fac toward on hll after that fr for a long IOD time she ehe stood looking in tam direction which pierrot bad taken and when after a time she he tuned and came back to daree she ebe did not look like the who had bad been twining flowers in her hair the laughter was wa tone gone from tier her face aad eyes she knelt down beside him and with fierceness site she cried it Is poo barbel it was wa you ag yg yon who put the poison in bl hill blood and I 1 hope he be dle dies I 1 for I 1 am afraid afraid 1 I she shivered perhaps it was in this moment that the great spirit of things meant ba ree to understand that at last it was given him to comprehend that ills til day had dawned that the rising and the the setting of his bl sun no longer in the sky but in ahlo cirl whose hand rested on his head ile he whined softly and inch by inch he dragged himself nearer eater to her until again his head rested in the hollow of her lot lap vor for a long time after pierrot left them thein the willow did not move from where she had bad seated herself beside daree bares it wn was at last the deepening shadows shadow and a near rumble in tile the sky that roused her from irom the fear of tile the things Iler pierrot rot had told her when she looked up black clouds clouda were massing slowly over the open space above the oprice tops darkness was falling failing in the whisper of the wind and the dead stillness of the thickening gloom there was the sullen brewing of storm shivered and rose to her feet feel for the first time baree baaree got up and he stood clo cloae at her side above them a lightning flash cut the clouds like a knife of lire fire follow followed td in an in betant by a terrific crash of thunder e r baree baaree shrank back as an if struck by a blow ue lie would have slunk into the shelter of the brush wall of the wigwam but there was something about the willow as lie he looked at her which gave him conti denee the r crashed again but he retreated no farther ills his eyes were fixed on ne 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 enger eager anticipation a sculptured goddess welcoming with bated breath the onrushing onrush ing forces of the hen hengens he avena vens perhaps it was because be was born on it a night of stor tri many times pierrot and the dead rii ad princess mother had told her vint how on oil tile the night she had coal into the world the crash of 0 thunder under and the flare of lightning had made the hours an inferno how the streams tind had burst over their banks and the stems ma of ton ten thousand forest trees had snapped in its fury and the lie beat of the deluge on their cabin roof had drowned the sound of her mothers prin pain and of her own first babyish cries on that night it may be the spirit of storm nas MIS born in Ne she loved to face it as she was it now it ande her forget all things but the he splendid might of nature tier her halt balf wild soul thrilled to the crash and tire or of it often she had reached up lier her bare arms and laughed with joy us as uio tho deluge burst about her even now she might have stood titre in the little open until the rain fell if a whine from baaree baree had not turned her As the first big drops struck with the dull thud of leaden bullets about them she went with him into the balsam shel shelter terr it seemed an interminable time before the thunder rolled far to the east cast and the light nine died away into distant and intermittent flash ings even after that the rain fell for another hour then it stopped as suddenly us as it had begun with a laughing gasp rose to her feet the water gurgled in tier her moccasins as she walked out into the open she paid no attention to baree baaree and he followed her across the open in the treetops the last 0 01 the storm clouds were drifting away looked down and saw sa w ba re rec e lie ile was wag standing clear and unleashed len lea shed with freedom on all sides of him film yet lie he did not run he was waiting malting wet as a water rat with hla his eyes on tier her expectantly ande de a movement toward him and hesitated 0 no o you ou will not run away barm I 1 ill leave you tree free and now we 1 hine have a fire I 1 let us hunt for th the ilaree TO nii fit CONTINUED |