Show B A rea SON OF KA KAZAN ZAN by JAMES OLIVER v r ro service chapter X continued 18 pierrot rot deep in hla his own somber thoughts scarcely heard the strange laugh that come came suddenly from tier lips was waa listening to tile the growl that was again in barbes throat it was a low but terrible sound bound when half balf a nille from the cable cabill she tin aluag the panniers pan from his shoulders deia and carried them herself ten minutes later they saw a man advancing to meet them it was not pierrot recognized him and with an audible breath of relief waved his hand it was dollar who trapped in the efte barren country north of lac iraln pierrot knew him well they had exchanged fox polson poison they wore were friends and thero there was pleasure in the grip of a f their hands debar stared then at Nep Ne eeme tonnerre Ton nerre she has grown into a woman I 1 he cried and like a woman looked at him straight tit with the color deepening in hor her chee cheeks I 1 te as lie bowed low with a courtesy that it dated back a couple of centuries beyond the trap line dollar debar lost no time in explaining his mission and before they reached tile the cabin pierrot find and knew why he lind had come maleu the factor at lac bain was leaving on a 0 journey in five days and he hall had sent dollar as a special messenger to pierrot to comet comei up to assist the clerk and the halfbreed half breed storekeeper in his abi absence ence pierrot made no comment lit at drat hut but he was thinking why had bush sent for him why had ho he riot not chosen chroen some oil one nearer not until a lie fire was cr ticklIng in tile sheet iron stove in the cabin tind was busily engaged getting did tie lie these quest questions lons to fit the fox ox hunter dollar dellar shrugged tits his shoulders ile he allied in nt at first it if I 1 could tay stay MA I 1 fe a wife with it n tad bad lung lune Il pierrot eirot tt it was caught hy by frost last winter and I 1 dare not lot leave tier her long alone ile HP has grent great falth in you besides you know all I 1 lie ilia trappers on oil tile the books nt at lac inc flails so he bent for you begs you not to worry orry w about your fur lines BI as lie will pay you double what you would catch in the time you ou tire lire tit at tile iott ali and Nei Kese said Iler rot maleu expects tile me to bring lierl her from the stove the willow bent tier her head to listen and ajer er heart leaped free again nt at dellari De Barsi assiter nn an lie ile said nothing about that hat but surely burely lt it will be a great chatine for itle amselle ms elle 11 pierrot nod ted led possibly Nto they the matter no more that night but for hours hour pierrot was still till thinking and a hundred times lie ho asked himself the sanie same question why find ItI cTaggart sea sent t for him t must be tie lie told himself filially thili maleu hall had sent for him because he wanted to witt win over the father of and gain the friendship of herself for tills wits was undoubtedly a a very grent great honor tant chilt the factor was conferring on him and yet deep down in ills his heart he fie was filled witt with when dellar was ns about to leave tile tho next morning Iler rot sald asit ii hill I 1 will liae leave for lac liala the alie day after tomorrow after dellar lind gone nina lie he it to and you ou remain licie bere ma inn cl clavrie ivrie 1 I will not tale you ou to lac bain I 1 have had it a adreani that aslou will not go BO on a journey v but that lint lie has lied and that lie fie aill le be slik ick when lin I 1 arrive at the post and ut iet if it should haffen capr n that you ou care to go depee straightened suddenly like a r reed e ed that tills lias been cault caught by the wind nd non she cried so fiercely that hat pierrot laughed and rubbed his hands sa it happened that on the lie second day after the fox foi hunters visit lilt pierrot left for lac bain with neppe nep pe in tile hie door waving waging him good by until he be wits was out of sight right on tile tie morning of this his gadue aay ay bush rose front from life hi bed while it was batill dark the time had come ile he lind had h stated bt at murder at the killing or of pierrot rot and lit in ills his hesitation lie he had bad found a bettor better way there could he be no snipe escape for se jt it was a wonderful scheme so easy of accomplishment so EU inevitable in its outcome and all the time little Iler pierrot rot would think lie he was awny away to lie he kaat east on a mission I 1 ile he ate ills his breakfast before dawn and was on the trail before it was yet light there was a vast amount of brutal satisfaction to in anticipating what was about to blip pen and he reveled in it to the full there was no chance for disappointment ment tie lie wt wo positive that would not accompany her other father to lac balo bala she would be at the cabin va the ormi loon alone this aloneness was to burdened no thought of danger there were times now when the thought of being alone was pleasant to her when glim wanted to dream by j herself when she ahe to tile the mysteries of which the she would not admit even pierrot Iler rot site she was growing into womanhood just tile the sweet closed bud of womanhood us as yet still a girl with tile lie soft boft velvet of girlhood in tier her eyes yet with the mystery of woman stirring gently icher in her soul as if f tile the great iland hand were hesitating between tween a awakening her and letting her sleep a little longer at these times when the opportunity came to steal hours by herself she would put on the red dress dream rind and do up her wonderful hair as she saw it to in the picture of tile the magazines pierrot had sent bent up twice a year from nelson house on the second day of absence dressed herself like this but today she ahe let her hair cascade in a shining glory about her and about her or forehead bound a circlet of red ribbon she was wag not yet done today she had bad marvelous mor designs on the wall close to her mirror she had tacked a large page from a womans comans magazine and on this page was a lonely vision of curls curia fifteen hundred miles north of the sunny california studio in which the picture had been taken Ne with pouted red lips and puckered forehead was fighting to muster master the mystery of the 0 ther other girls curls I 1 she was looking into her mirror tier her trice face flushed and tier her eyes aglow in the excitement of the struggle to I 1 tell 1011 maleu that I 1 will leave the tha day after tomorrow fashion one of tile the coveted ringlets from a tress that foil fell away below tier hips when tin door opened behind her and hush bush walked in chapter XI the willows billows back was toward tile the loor door whorl when the fator pin tor from nic I 1 c nin bain entered I 1 the cabbil and for a few startled tecona M condi sho aln did not turn tin n her first thought ans va or of ile rot for or some leitson he fie hit licul returned hut but even een its a tills ills thought callie to har six heard in Bil rees throat attlio it a snarl that br bugl I 1 t tier her suddenly to her feet bacill g tile the door was nas standing with his fits buck back against ohp door atil ard tit nt in her hi r wonderful dress and flo flowitt flow wirt lri hair lit he wits staring maring tum ni it if stunned for a spare space it at what lie sai saw rate fate or accident was playing against t the he willow billow now it fiere hall had lieen been a spark of slumbering chivalry of 0 iner cy cv even lit in hush bush garts soul it wits e by what lie he saw noer never luid had lNe looked more inore beau drill not even een on eliat lay dar when macdonald the be map iealer had taken her the sun aun flooding throna the wt waido window ido lighted tip op her marvelous hair her flushed face was waa framed in ID IN if lustrous darkness like a tinted cameo he fie had dreamed im hut he be hit ha pictured nothing like tills this woman who blood to 1 I before him now her ryca eyes widening e with fear and the flush leaving her face even aa he to looked aked at tier her it was noi not a long lone anter Iti tenal it in which t their clr eyes met in that silence terrible to the girl word were unnecessary at last she lit understood what her peril hlll had been that day at the edge of th stir clemi and in the forest when nhe ll had 11 played with tile the menace vas con her now A breath that was waa like a sob bob broke from tier her lips 11 pa she nhe tried to filly but it was wan only a jasp gasp at an effort slit sh seemed choking Plainly It heard the tha click or of th iron it 4 locked the door mo BIC taggart a step tang binl tep step brt ad van ed aa athe the floor caree had find re rc me coned 6 thing lie ile lind not moved ve had not mode made it a sound bound but that one warning snarl until sic taggart took the step anh then like a flash he was up ind and in front of Nep pese every hair of his body on mid end grid and at tt the fury in his growl lunged bungert back against the barred door A word ward from in that moment and it would have been over put but an instent was wag lost log an instant before her cry came to in that moment mans hand band rind and brain worked swifter than brute understanding and an aa baree baaree launched him self at the factors throat there came a flash and a deafening explosion almost in the willows eyes it was a chance shot a shot fro from M the hip with automatic barce fell short ile he struck the floor with a thud and rolled against tile the log willi wall there was nota kick or a quiver left in his fits body acta agart nervously as he fie shoved his pistol back bach in its holster ile he knew that only caly a 2 brain shot could have done that with her back against the further wall was waiting mcton gart cart could hear bear her printing breath he advanced halfway to her depee e I 1 have come to make you my wife he said she did not answer lie he could itee w ta that lu t her breath was choking her site sh r raised his edit n hand to her throat ite he took two more steps and stopped he fie had never seen such eyes 1 I have come to make you my wife Ne tomorrow you yop will go on to 0 o nelson house with tile nip ani then back to lac bain forever lie ile ilal ed the last words as nn an afterthought forever lie repented repeated lie he did not mince words ills his courage and ills determination rose its as he n saw her body droop a itak tile the wall site she wits was powerless there was no escape pierrot Iler rot was gone alaree was lead ile he hot thought that no living creature could move ns 09 swiftly ns its tile lie via low when ills his arnia arms ranched out for ani her she glie made no sou sound id its as she dart ed under one of his outstretched arm armi he fie made a lunce rp it bautel gran grah tin and his fingers caught a bit of hair HP fie heard the snap of it as she tore ore herself free and flew to the he dr d rr r slit sh hall thrown back the holt bolt v ahen hen lie h caught tier lier rind and his anus closed aboul tier her lie he dragged her hack back and now she cried out cried out in tier her despair a for pierrot rot for baaree baree for som miracle 4 ot of loll god giat might save her and fought she twisted in his hir arms until site she was wag facing him she could no longer see gee she witt smothered bullier III hilr ir it c covered d IKI lvere face and breast and ti body alfro ll 11 her entangling tier her hands and arm arin and still she fol foucht lit in th Rt niK ac stumbled the body of ii baaree baree and they went down neveve basup was up fully five seconds of the lie nian man she cluid have hava readied reached tte tie door but again it was her hair fl aie el pau paused ned to fling back the thick nin ninva va of it so that slip she could see gee mid find was at the lie door of her ln r lip H did ili not lock it nenon but sto d tier her ills his flite was scratched and weeding ble edine lie he was no longer it 11 nuin man but a levil devil was broken panting a 11 low sobbing canie with tier her breath site she berit bent down rind and aleka up a 11 piece of firewood could see that hint tier her strength was almost gone slip she clutched the stick as lie he ap patched pro ached tier her again hut but had lost all thong thought of fear or caution ile he sprang upon tier her like an the stick of firewood fell and rizalyn fit fate t a p played in ye d a against g a dinst t the fie gi in tier hei terror avid and hopeless hopelessness sher he h ha e caught up tile the first stick lier her hand lift hn tou chro a light one with her lagi g strength she struck at garl with it and its as it fell on Ms his head fie b s staggered ered buck rut but it lid did tact not mal anki loll 1011 loose tits his hold TO HE BB I 1 |