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Show PTFTTr- - rnTT'TTV NTFWS JUNCTION. UTAH BAREE, Son of Kazan Chapter IX James Oliver Cur wood Dy Continued Pace (, Doubleday, WNU Service 17 It was then ! f ftt that Baree found tin side of Mtiheegun. hint-- f Sin tiling was punting; her rod toiurnt from hor open Jaws; hut at his pros-nic- e she Imuicht hor fangs together with a snap and from him into fio heart of tin wind run and disappointed park. The wohes were In tin t "!y temper, hut Dane did not sense the fuct. Xcjieese trained him to t ke to water like an otter, and he d not undorMand why this narrow rarer should stop them as it had. lie t a down to the water and stood holly deep in It, facing for an instant the horde of savage lane's above him, v a: !"niig why they did not follow. A ii he was hltn k- hlael; ! lie came u. mu- - them attain, and for the tirsr tone they Holloed him, Tlie restless nnwements of the waters oeased now, A new and wondering Interest held (hem rigid. Fangs A little in the open closed sharply. Farce saw Maheegtm. with u big gray-wolstanding near her. He went to her again, and this time she remained with flattened ears until lie was sniffing her neck. And then, with a vicious snarl, she snapped at him. Her teeth sank deep in the soft llosli of his shoulder, and ut the unexpectedness und pain of her attack, he let out a yelp. The next Instant the big gray wolf was at him. Again caught unexpectedly, Baree went down with the wolf's fangs at Ids throat. Itut In him was the blood of Kazan, the flesh and hone and sinew of Kazan, and for the first time In Ids life he fought as Kazan fought on that terrible day at the top of the Pun rock. He was young, he had yet to learn the cleverness and the strategy of the veteran; but his Jaws were like the iron clamps with which Pierrot set his hear traps, ntul In Ids heart was sudden and blinding rage, a desire to kill that rose above all sense of pain or fear. That tight, if It had been fair, would have been a victory for liaree, even In his youth and Inexperience. In fairness the pack should have waited; It was a law of the puck to wait until one was done for. Hut liaree was black; lie was a stranger, an Interloper, a creature whom they noticed now In a moment when their blood was hot with tin rage and disappointment of killers who had missed their prey. A second wolf sprang in, striking liaree treacherously from the flank; and while tie was In ttie snow, his Jaws crushing the foreleg of his first foe, die pack was on him en masse. Such an attack on tlw young cftrl-hohull would have meant death In less than a minute. Every fang would have found Its hold, liaree, by the fortunate circumstance that he was under Ids first two assailants and protected by their bodies, was saved from being torn Instantly Into pieces. He knew that he was fighting for tils life. Over him the horde of beasts rolled and twisted and snarled; lie felt the hurtling pain of teeth sinking Into Ills t!esTf smothered ; a hundred knives seemed cutting him Into pieces; whimper or a yet no sound--no- t iiVjw in the horror him from came cry and hopelessness of It all. It would have endtl in another not been had the struu-sj- e nt the very edge of the haul mined by the erosion of tl Hoods, a section of the hunk suddenly gave way, and with It went I aree and the pack. In a Hash liaree thought of tlte water and the eseaphn caribou. had For a bare instant the ur sent him free of the pack, at d In that space he gave a single leap over the gray hacks of his enemies into the deep water of the stream. IF lose behind him half a dozen Jawjs snapped shut on empty air. As it kind saved the caribou, so this strip of wiiter shimmering In the glow of the moon und 1 stars had saved Baree. The stream was not tnoire than a hundred feet in width, hut it cost Barm close to a losing struirgie to get across it. Intil he drugged himself ut on the opposite shored the extent (if his injuries was not Impressed upon him fully. One himn leg, for t he time, was useless; Ids forward left shoulder was laid open (to the bone; ids head and body were torn and cut; rnl as he dragged himsejlf slowly away from t he stream, the brail he left In the snow was a red path of blood. It tr'eklcd from his pasting jaws, be-- t .veen which his tongi- - was bleeding; it ran down Ids logs and flanks and I y, and it drippeJ from his ears, one of which was slit clean for two inchos as though cut With a knife. His Instincts were daze! his perception of tilings clouded is by a veil drawn dose over tiis eyeJ. Half dead. lie t! avged himself on ninth by chance he came to a clumpfnf dwarf spruce. lu. this he strerj si, and then he dropped exhausted AM that night if J until noon the next day Baree by witiiout moving. i he fever burned in his hlood : It flamed high and swift toward death; then it ebbed slowly, and life conquered. At nook he came forth. He was reak. and be wobbled on his legs. His bind leg stih dragged, and lie was racked With pain. But It was a splendid day, Tiie sun was warm; the snow was; thawing, the sky was like a great hie d sea; and the floods of life coursea warmly through Rarees veins Rut Dow, for all time, his desires were enunged, and his great quest at an end. A red ferocity grew !n Baree 8 eyes as he snarled In the direction cf last fit ghls fight with the wolves. They I . more; but Ca.) were no longer ids people. They were no longer of Ids hlood. Never again could tin hunt-callure him or the voice of Hie pack rouse the old longing. In him there was a thing new- horn, an undying hatred for the wolf, u hatred that was to grow In him until it became like u disease in Ills vitals, a tiling ever present und insistent, demanding vengeance on their kind. Last night lie had gone to them a comrade. Today lie was an outcast. Cut and maimed, bearing with him scars for ail time, lie laid learned ids lesson of Hie wilderness. Tomorrow, and tiie next day, and for days after that without number, lie would remember tiie lesson well. l At the cabin on the Cray I.oon, on night of Barees absence, Ilerrot was smoking his pipe after a great supper of caribou tenderloin he had brought In from the trail, and Nepcose whs listening to ids tale of the remarkable shot lie had made, when a sound at the door interrupted them. Nepcose opened it, and Baree came in. Three days and nights of hunger In which lie could not hunt because of tiie leg that dragged had put on him (lie marks of starvation. and covered with dried blood-clotthat still clung tenaciously to his long tiair, lie was a sight that drew at last a long breath from Nepeese. A (flioer smile was growing In Iierrols face as lie leaned forward In Ids chair; and then slowly rising to ills feet, and looking closer, lie said to Nepeese: "Ventre Saint (iris! Otil, he has been to tiie puck, Nepeese, and the pack turned on him. It was not u Hie fourth Battle-s- carred s e n it He no longer piayed as he had phtyed before he went off alone Into the forest. He did not chase sticks, or run until he was winded, for the pure joy of running. His puppyishness was In Its place was a great worgone. ship and a rankling bitterness, a love for tiie girl and a imt red for tiie pack and all that It stood for. , Whenever lie heard the It brought an angry snarl Into his throat, and lie would hare his fangs until even Pierrot would draw a little away from him. But a touch of the girls m (id would quiet him. In a week or two tiie heav ler snows came, and Pierrot began making Ids trips over the trap lines. Nepeese had entered into a thrilling bargain with him this winter. Pierrot had taken tier into partnership. Every fifth trap, every tiftii deadfall, and every fifth polson-luil- t was to be her own, and what they caught or killed was to bring a lilt nearer to realization a wonderful dream that was growing In the Willow's soul. Pierrot bad promised. If they had great luck that winter, they would go down together on tiie last snows to Nelson House and buy tiie little old organ that was for sale there; and if the organ was sold, they would work another winter, arid get a new one. This plan gave Nepeese an enthusiastic and tireless interest in t be trap-line- . Pierrot impressed on tier that It made a comrade and of tier on tiie trail. That was his scheme: to keep her with him when lie was awa.v from the cabin. He knew that Bush McTaggnrt would come again to the Gray I.oon, probably more than once during the winter. He had swift dogs, and it was a short Journey. And when MeTaggart came, Nepeese must not lie at the cabin alone. Pierrots trap-linswung into the north and west, covering in all a matter of fifty ndies, witli an average of two traps, one deadfall, and a poison-hal- t to each mile. Halfway over this line Pierrot had built a small log cabin, and at tiie end of it another, so that a days work meant twenty-fiv- e miles. This was easy for Pierrot, and not hard on Nepeese after the first few days. All through October ar.d November they made the trips regularly, making the round every six days, which gave one day of rest at t be cabin on tiie Gray I.oon and another day in the cabin at t be end of tiie trail. They were splendlt months. Fur was thick, and it was iteadil.v cold without had storm. Nupeese not only carried- a small pack on her shoulders in order that Pierrot's load might be lighter, hut she trained Baree to hear tiny shoulder-pannierwhich she manuIn these panniers factured. Baree carried the halt. In at least it third o ihe total number of trails sot there was always wliat Pierrot called trash rabbits, owls, whisky Jacks, Jays and squirrels. These, with ttie skin or feathers stripped off, made up the bulk of the bait for the traps ahead. One afternoon early in December, as they were returning to the Gray I.oon. Pierrot stopped suddenly a dozen paces ahead of Nepeese and stared at the snow. A strange snow-sho- e trail had Joined their own and was heading toward the cabin. For half a minute Pierrot was silent and scarcely moved a muscle ns he stared. The trail came straight out of the north off there was Lac Bain. Also they were the marks of large snowshoes. and the stride indicated was that of a tall man. Before Pierrot had spoken. Nepeese had guessed what they meant. "M'sieu the Factor from Lac Bain! sin said. Baree was snitting suspiciously at the strange trail. They heard the low growl In Ids throat, and Pierrots shoulders stiffened. Yes. the M'sieu, he said. The Willows heart beat more swiftly as they went on. She was not afraid of MeTaggart. not physically afraid; and yet something rose up In her breast and choked her at thought of his presence on the Gray Loon. Why was lie there? It was not necessary for Pierrot to answer the question. even had she given voice to It. She knew. The Factor from Lac Bain had no business there except to see her. The hlood burned red In her cheeks as she thought again of that minute on the edge of the chasm when lie had almost crushed her In Ills arms. Would lie try that again? Over Went Baree and Half the Pafk. two-wol- Speakers at Geneva Conference icise Attitude at Washington; I (To r The new General Motors line is first of all a quality line. It embodies every advantage of research. It has been proved at the General Motors Proving Ground. Every car is finished in Ducoj the closed cars have Fisher Bodies. It price-at-the-facto- ry We invite you to visit the show rooms of our dealers and select your new car from the General Motors line. GENERAL MOTORS of Nicaraugua to Resign San Salvadore A nicaraguan revolutionary communique reaching here says Emiliano Chamorro, de facto president of Nicaragua, has offered to resign in favor of Adolfo Diaz. The insurgents, however, insist Dr. Juan Baptista Sacasa, constitutional vice president of Nicaragua, is now the president. 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A large part Wishing he was back. ' of the Turkish industry was In the hands of Greek and Armenian resiHe isn't much of a baker who eat dents of Asia Minor. The Turks de- nil the bread he kneads. manded that the Greeks leave Turkish Bombs Explode in Mill Strike Clifton, N. J. Two homes were territory, and more than 1,000,000 bombed in this town. Police attrib- were repatriated in Greece. They uted both of these occurrences to the carried their art and industry with textile mill strike which has been in them. Detroit News. FOR effect for eight months. The home of Sure Relief Mrs. Ellen McNally was damaged by a bomb made of dynamite and placed in an iron pipe. The pipe was thrown on the porch. Pieces were blown through the house, part of the porch being blown away, but no one was injured. A dog sleeping under the porch was killed. 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Every available physician in Monroe hurried to the scene. posure to the air and sunlight Is the most practical method. orang-uta- la the past twelve months Geneva Sir George E. Foster, former finance minister of Canada and for many years a leading statesman of that country, delivered a sharp at tack at the world court conference Thursday afternoon on the American attitude, particulruly with reference to the fifth reservation relative to adherence to the court. The world awaited and expected something more than this from the United States, said the Canadian delegate. His remarks were almost of a sensational character and profoundly impressed the European delegates. Sir George warned that the United States plan for adherence to the world court should not be interpreted as showing any change in the Amer-caposition toward the league of nations. The world, he declared, should rid itself of an idea that the United States was more friendly to the league. 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With this day they resumed the comradeship interrupted by Baree's temporary desertion. Tiie attachment was greater than ever oil Baree's 'art. It was he who had run away from the Willow, wlio had deserted her at tiie call of the pack, and It seemed at times as though he sensed the depths of his perfidy and was striving to make amends. There was Indubitably a very great change in him. lie hung to Nepeese like a shadow. Instead of sleeping at night In the spruce shelter lierrot made for him, he made himself a little hollow In tiie earth close to the cubiri door. Pierrot thought that he understood, and Nepeese still thought that she understood IT reality the key to th mystery remained with Baree hlniaelt u a-- DOT be- have and think precisely as men do, so we find many animals, birds and Insects thinking, and it is this capacity to benefit by the teachings of experience. the cultivation of memories and 72 Golden Bird on Shoe j One of the exhibition dancers at the Deauville casino the other night wore a wonderful pair of shoes made In strips of pale blue, pink and lavender kid with a golden bird placed rather to one side of the vamp and held captive, as it were, by a thin gold thain, the other end of which was attached to a diamond placed .halfway np the very high heel. 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