Show aji FREE SAY on of df d f baian chapter XII continued I 1 21 it wn ani s a bondi wonderfully artilly rr tilly clear after the lie storm i vold old oral anil brillh util witt tile the I 1 thadows standing out its c OR an IM the hie third idea catie came to 1 aree now ire ile was like nil ii ll 11 euils largely of one llyl nill ot at it if time a i creati creature lre with whom till lessi r impulses were pre governed by it 11 fill I 1 lending ending impulse ali and tills ills lin pul pulse pulp P in lip lie clew of if lie starlit wivi to reach us jig quickly its is possible ibe list first of pierrott Pierro tB two cubing on it I 1 hie b e trap I 1 ine there lie would orrl I 1 we r wont mont cull call the lie process by which haree cattle to thir conclusion a peov poll of if ri instinct or in ing whale er it was n fix fixed pout H the re callb canie to iturea baree just joist tile lie haiti lie 10 i began liepin to abis thu the traps lit li ill lih haste halite to cover dI distance stanco to re reinli ell till coan it was twenty the miles from rols barnd biome 0 to the first arst trap C ill I 1 anil ili it rive had milde made ten tell of ill those A bot bv v airall tha taft fifteen were HIP flip most difficult I 1 in ill the open spines the he snow allow was belly doer deell will mid soft frequently it in 1 hiliger through drifts lit in which fur for it few roo lile tits lie was hurled aborted th tareo rep limes blines during the hie curly early purl part of the lie night baaree baree heard HIP dirgo of tile lie wolves once te it wall MIS it wild of triumph us na the hunters li pulled tinn their hill 1111 lem thlin half n mile till in the hep fleek fol foiest hut but the edve clr no longer culled to allm it haq repellent it 11 bolce ir of haired fill and of if elicit andi that lie le heerd it lie slopped lit in ills drallos I 1 s oil aind I 1 si ailed while lilac ills apine Illif felled ned at idaree came to tit alie in ahe lie forest where Iler rot lind ell n the hp lops logs for flip fir first it of if tits ills trail line cablitz lor for lit denst n 11 minute tp bampe nt lit the eilee edge nf fir flip lie clearing lenil nf lils ills ears nery lili ills ces bright with holve will lon ion while it he misted lie he air there 1 liere was no smoke nole ni no no light in tile one window of the loe killick ills fell oil nn ill him even een its n tie lie stood there again lie sensed tile eliet of lit lla ills tit of tile ho barrenness of ills his emst there was ans a dis heartened blouch to his hir body as lie lilace ills his way through tle tile snow to tile cuthill door lip he had find traveled truie led twenty five alve miles and lie was tired fired tile snow was drifted deep tit nt the doorway find here baaree baree sat down own aad whined tt it wits was no longer the questing whine of 0 a few hours houra IRO ago now it olal hopelessness and a deep despair for half nn an hour ho he sot sat shivering with his back to the door and his face to tile the starlit wilderness na as if there wit still remained tile the flet ting hope that Ne peee might follow lifter after blin over the flip trull trail then ile he burrowed lill himself self a hole deep in the snowdrift drift igind parsed tit alie remainder of the night in slumber with the first light of day bar enree re punted tile the trail trall lie he was not so BO alert this morning there was the disconsolate droop to ills tall which tile the in deans mil call tile the the sign of the sick dor dog and baaree baree was sick not of body but of soul the keenness of lils hope luid hall died and lie he no longer expected to find the file willow the second cabin lit it the fur far end of the tha arap line drew him on lull bot 11 aspired atred pt red in ili him none of the with ellch lie find hurried to tile the first firlit lie tn led slowly tits ls suspicions lona of the lie forests again replacing ibe ali e ill of ills 1114 quest ile he lied emli of Iler rots raps and lowly and twice lie 1 sl luel III fanga once nt lit it a marten tant lit at littie from under a root where it lind hall dragged the lie trap in 1 1 wits caught and the second bilue lit it mg owl that hat had inc ir efat halt ind wits was now a arli in r 11 I 1 ile pail 1 a steel stee I 1 chain it 1 iain lip lie tint that ilaree thought it wits was Ild and that ill lie still lifred ivied idill i till the argault and florip lyattle of that light when it us it n lie in ns lihi ills sore annd til through Hir ouli flip 1113 mys s tern inin aim tear lif f the big til timber liber for lie ile olm calil more imire than to show his fangs lie ile owe the ali owl wl into pieces pa there opre nf if in traps nod nil chirpe buirel ild did not go langri lie ife renil itil fl the lie leond second trail alne in title lale tit lit the afternoon aft moon of utter 1 er ten dpn amir if ile HP tile met i w with ath tio no tn ery grent great here rr fir lie he i I 1 ill i n attl linni erv much the 1 lie ini had h ed tills elk elkhill lill men een than tho ther in r it lin iny three fet an fn t dep du i n aili l tin lh r aind tile tn kiili ii ili ji n alte will fill it 11 thick nut coat biz af if fit f fai it t A M I 1 I 1 lails li is 10 1 i 1 I 1 I 1 wn ak iii tn HIP f lii of 1 l I 1 1 ital i li i i b ii ali r rrt firt r t fur far 11 pr hawk li lien 1 ail I 1 libil 41 bill inell i n helter i lit ills lit p binl in ill ilus sl helter i hiir 1 iree n alo ills liiv li 1111 ml 1141 tiit alln text ml il ii i up cwi iwi m honi li n n ir ar the lie awl nd of f ow antl n ip aliw ail UH igo i nf r it I 1 ti irr it n mal III nis iiii lug iii it 1 art rt alil uh inn ime of f i i whit v hah I 1 pierrot rot t ain t 11 i strung through H R si in m ll 11 i in ili it i inre IN m re liall inn in ko tl n dilall aimin ill 4 f hn it if iva w is I 1 aln 1 third il 13 IK 1 f 1 ii 11 lii i 1 tit W hi tits I 1 I 1 in ill tle gal in I 1 it i ile he dill not trai vi in i isi t sui ing two dacz lit in to enni tho iliin fire miles tio t tw iw ell ii in file i 1 I mj lind file kekona trail at t tile ilu i ond cicili ci lili lie he revalued fir bir lirar alls nd H watt on CTT tha mifflin m lie fill reached the only iray loon ther luiere was 0 no o er tange e there were no trails tracks lit in the snow but his own made nine days das g mr t farces quest for becia me mow more or less involuntary a sort bort 4 J t aaa routine for a week he made 1 N by JAMES OLIVER curwood CUR WOOt Q 0 7 pair A co sob biolo its ills harrow in the dog corral and at least twice between dawn and dark r SH tic would KO go to the birch bark n ave unil and the ch chaliki alini ills ilia trail I 1 soon boon bellien hard in it tile snow became as 1 axed I lei us 14 I 1 pierrott Pier Iller rots imp line anil then ot if a budden faree mao made e it 11 efi chanke linge lip he spent a night in the eive after lint flat whenever lie he was nt t tit ruy ray loon during durine tile the lay day he slept t in the 1110 belive the two were his lied bed tind they wore wen 11 part 1 art of if Ni anti and there nil fill through the lie long lone winter lie he waited I 1 HIP lip whiter pawed passed lind spring came III aind I 1 R till ilaree to haunt tits his alil fit even going now and t lien over tit lie old trap rup line as far ar oil an the first of if tile two cabins the traps were rusted and now the ving snow inow disclosed bonea bone unil and feal ivri cai their jaws under tile HIP were remnants of fur ani out on the lie ice fee of the laker were picked of iames o kea and wolves that had taken the lip poison halts balts the lust last MOW allow went tile swollen st stream sling lit in tin the foresta ml and canyons citny ous the grass turned tuni d green erren and the first flowers rs cal ainne all these illings were happening and lie he bink fill and mald mal d ind and nested anit still did wit conie come and ani HI I 1 lust I 1 st something broke inide in of iturea ills his atit hope perhaps last irevin and one lay tic lie hade goodby bood ly to the ru ray loon no one can say kny what it cost to go co i no one it cn all say liow how lie fought the that lint were holding him to tile lie tepee alie tit old swimming pool the fri millar in tile the forest orcut tin and tile alio two knives graves flint were not so lonely now under the lip tall spruce lie he and into the north he ha went went ile he had bad no reason simply went well t it may be that there Is a master blaster whose hand galdes the beast as well as the man aad that we know just juit enough of this guidance to call it instinct for in dragging himself away baaree baree faced the great adventure it was there in the north waiting for him and into the north he went 0 0 0 0 it was early in ili august when baaree baree left the he gray loon ile he had tie no objective lit in view lew hut but there was still left upon tits his mind like tile the delicate impression prest lon of light and shadow on a negative the meni memories orles of ills his earlier dis das things an happenings that lie he ibid forgotten for cotten recurred to linn hun us its lili ills trull trail led him farther and farther away anny from the gray cray loon and ills his earlier experiences became real pictures thrown out afresh in ills wind mind hy by the breaking brenk liiK of the last ties lien that held him to the home of the lV ll illow low involuntarily lie followed the trull trail of these impressions of these aist past happenings and slowly they helped to build up new interests for libin 1 1 1 ile he came to the blind canyon ui ill which and pierrot had chased him that seemed but yesterday lie entered the little land stood bebide liei ildo tile great rock that had almost crushed the life out of the willows body aud and then lie he reme remembered I 1 where Waka bakay yoo oo 00 his fils lle big b beuc e ar friend lad died under rifle find indge he led of Wakayo oa whitened bones dheri they lay scattered lo in the green gras grans with flowers flowers growing up among clr iii i and now for tile the first time in many weeks it a bit of tile the old time eager nea bilut hit speed sace into fla feet Slem memories orles that fill hafid been linzy hazy and indistinct through forgetfulness were bo coming realities again und and as he would have returned to tile he bruy ray loon lind had Nep cee been there so now with something of the feeling of a u wanderer going home hoine lit lib returned to the old beaver pond all through tile the of august ilaree made the beaver pond tits his headquarters at finies his excursions I 1 ons kept hita him away for two or ahr three e daya at a time these journeys were always into the north sonie it a little east cant and sometimes a little west but b t never again into the flip south routh and ut at last early in september lie he left the die beaver pond for good it wits was almost december when lerue a halt halfbreed breed from filin lae lac baan SHW saw Ili trees footprints in freshly fallen snow and a little later caught a flash of him in tile the bit bush it mon me aleu I 1 tell you ills bis feet are 11 as big as ai my hand all and he Is its as bind OS ns a ravens wing with the sun still on it lie fit exclaimed in tile the Comp companas anys sto store re at anc baan A fox non I 1 lie he la is hille ns As big us its a bear A wolf 1 and black OR as lie file drill Ms Als leus 11 Afe Taggart was ivas one line of those thoe who heard lie ile was pi pt etting ting ilia hl 1 signature lit ink to it a letter lie he had written to tile the Compi any iny when berties Leri Ler ies ties words cattle to alln ills hand stopped so suddenly that it a drop of ink spattered on tit the e letter through film there ran a ell cu alotis shiar r a as 4 lie looked over at I 1 lie hip just junt then marle cattle came I 1 in it baggart hall brought aught her back from tier her tribe iii big dark eyes had a sick look k in fit them thein and some of her wild beauty had gone since a year ago with scarcely it a sound that tile the others could hear marle had whisp whispered ered into the lie factors ear and folding his letter Me Taggart rose quickly and left tile the store lie he was gone tin an hour lerue and the others were puzzled it was not often that marle came into the store it was not often that they saw tier her at nil all she remained hidden in the factors log house and each time that lie he saw her lerue thought that tier her face was wag a little thinner thap the last and tier her eyes bigger and hungrier looking in his own heart there was a great yearning yearn ing many a night he passed the little window beyond which he knew that she was sleeping often he looked to catch it a glimpse of her pate pale face and he lived in the one happiness of knowing that marle marie understood and that into her eyes there came for an instant a different light when their glances met no one else knew the secret lay between them and patiently lerue lerne waited and watched some day he kept saying to himself some day aud and that was all lerue was thinking of this when Me Taggart returned pt at the end of the hour the factor came bame straight up to where the halt half dozen of them were seated about the big box stove and with a grunt of satisfaction shook the freshly fallon fallen snow from his shoulders alerre Il erre eustach has accepted the governments offer and Is going to guide the map making party up into the barrens this winter he an bounced noun ced you know lerue he ha has 3 a hundred and fifty traps and dead falls set and a big poison balt bait country A good line ell eh and I 1 have leased it of him for the season it will give met me door work I 1 need three days on the trail three d days flys here kb what do you say to th the e bargain it Is good said lerue yes ves it Is good said bald roget beget A wide fox country said mons houle and easy to travel murmured va len lence in a voice that was almost like it a comans womans wo mans ans IT TO BE BB CONTINUED |