Show 1 I 1 s rr F mus L aa ASH jam OILS H I 1 j I 1 the lead dog B george marsh marjh by 1 1 THE reno PENI publishing ISHINO CO SERVICE SYNOPSIS up the wild waters of the unknown yellow lei leg on a win kwintera terA hunt journey our ney brock mccaan mccaln and haspard lecroix his ri rench cree comrade with plash flash djock brocks puppy and their 4 dog 0 g t team earn brocks brock rather father had war warned e a hlin him of the danger of hla hin trip after several battles with the stormy waters they arrive at ft a fork in the yel I 1 low w leg brock to Is severely injured ju red in making a portage and flash ash leads gaspard to the unconscious u youth the trappers race desperately to reach their deat destination before winter sets seti in plash engages in ih a desperate des fight with a wolf and kills kilia him blim lampard lai pard tells brock of hla his determination to find out who killed his father tracks are discovered and the two boys separate parate ee for purposes brock la in jumped by 13 two and a white map man and knocked unconscious lle he ls la held prisoner ciao pard rescues him wafie his ba captors sleep gaspard bel believe leves theve meri men killed bis fatherland herand fat and Is aspre prevented from killing them by br brock 0 ck while out alone gaspard 1 la shot from ambush by an indian and kills his would be slayer while tout on his bis trap lines brocak la Is caught ap n a heavy snow storm ile he Is lost and bis food oven elves out his hopes are raised when hs ho discovers discovers t a moose trall trail CHAPTER ym aej 14 for nn an Ini instant tant tie fie paused in doubt ile he would rest ills hla gun against a tree if he could bad and time but suppose flash lunged as ho he tired fired k ita I 1 might be b safer to tit lash him here no he did not dot dare darc ills his hand shook like a lent leat lie he would only wound the moose would need flash so weak with famine and excite runt brok brock went on on into the thick timber nerves strung g like bow strings straining uncertain eyes for the vision pt a huge sha shape pe ln in th the e snow ihen dilating his no nostrils strlla in deep de ep sniffs of the theair alfi flash budd suddenly eniy avent went mid mad A falling on an tile tha trembling husky brock seized his nosed shut up flash 1 I he ga gasped s ped in U desperation S Pe steady boyl shut UPI gut but the starved dog trembled where he crouched wild to charge the beast choi scent was strong in ills his nostrils with stiff fingers prock brock knotted the lease to a sapling and left his bis dog to make the stalk lie he had moved by a few yards faben ewhen suddenly he be saw a patch kid I 1 M ly between the dark green oi 66 young joung spruce dreos trees life hung op oja the pitiful bandar which raised his rifle to td bl his shoulder iye eyes s blurred as aa tl bead wavered pat past the open reab rear sight again he looked for hla his target 1 the black patch was gone with a groan the kd boy reeled I 1 his fevered eyes peering desperately into the timber already blue with shadow then ihen to his clarp he saw a shape flounce floundering ring in show snow to lis its shoulders it vaa was tj the ie lost chancel bancel I 1 ar crouching ti ching gitil elbow e on knee ann brock tired agthe As the rifle shattered the silence a preat preal gray and white shape sifi king to the shoulders shou fit at every leap plunged pasa past 1 plash flash I 1 r with nil the strength he could buntinton Bun tinon i non brockhan brock Broc kran ran ue had missed hardly seen his bis sights I 1 one more shot only ond one shot I 1 he sobbed aa he shuffled after the dog who had snapped hla his leash brock reached the trail of the hera the do dog had d joined it ft not d a propof drop of blood on the lie ile had masse d ahead abiad flash yelped hard in iii pur suit of tile lie flying beast but tle long legs of 61 the moose would outdistance out distance the dog I 1 in n Ilie lie deep snow I 1 it vav as nil over they had fidd lost I 1 it wa was alfe bo endl 4 1 6 ting in his weakness brock stumbled foiw over the broken trail eft hy by moose and dog then of a S uddin the file elpa of the husky clinn changed ged to roars of rage flails bad caught him I 1 clutching ills his rifle the boy kept pit on hopley alit hoping tor for one last insi satt ile he broke through the thicker to gasp I 1 in inthe n the snow a 0 young youn bull hl his horns hodis still in afie he spike lashed with his great forefeet for et at the dog who leaped aej around aund him heir r stiff off eyes ayes bloodshot his breath escaping from diluted nostrils like the lve exhaust st of an engine W with his sharp the bull the aft clr jis as tho the dog ag lunged in and out and the then ri as the dem desperate prate beast tried to rise on hla hind legs and fell an bock ck brock saw hamstrung I 1 flash boy youve saved br us with spur teeth P mercifully brock bonded the fight TOM a bullet through the beasts braan As the animal tell blackness clo closed ed on the vision of tile exha exhausted eved tony hov and he fainted fan led tl bosky triad mad with avia the last P af blood tore savagely attebe the ahr 0 the moose then at the sight algal lilt t of the 66 crumpled aldi ng figure of brock ran to him with io hine the biting aar you whose des dea berato exertion had sapped tb the e last ounce of his ile he got to his blo feet while the dog went back to his red meat my old flash cupl said brock caressing the husky hamstrung him you did old pall bless your boner bonani but the dusk duel was close and there was notice notime no time to lose leading the reluctant dog from hla his quarry brock deli delirious riou s with joy jok at his bla auck went back for the sled bled and there in the swamp within beasy reach of the meat which would thicken his blood and give him back his bis strength while he be rested he built builta a ore fire and made camp but brock was wise and sitting by his bla fire with the gorged flash he drank at intervals a small cup only of the broth from the simmering ng pot of moose broth full well he be knew the danger of filling a starved and w weakened eak ened stomach and that night craving it though he did he be touched no meat meal well see home now hungry house and the family and abid old gaspard he be has become ol 01 us flash he rambled ledon on in his joy to the dog at his side but bui were lost weve welve got to find the river old pal well camp right here feedle tin on that bull til brock gets his ahls legs back then well take a hundred pounds of meat abd circle northwest what then the boy leaned rind burled his hooded face in the gray mane of the dog wha grunted with contentment at st his side elde for days brock camped beside the frozen moose meat while his strength returned As his bis dudu endurance increased he climbed the nearest ridges to search the horizon for a fa familiar millar landmark I 1 1 W 0 ham flash doy boy youve saved Us with your but to his bewilderment and chagrin found none in theand the end b be e wa was s forced to the realization that instead of be ing south oi of the head be adwater lakes lake sund und the river valley 4 h must have worked to it the e west in the two two days blizzard I 1 Tak taking ingal a hundred bundred pounds of meat a 5 treavy load for th the husky traveling across country brock turned south east in the hollowoa hollow of his arm he be car ried fils uncased r eifle for he fie wits was now sure he was well beyond the big lake in the ene hys country constantly as he traveled he watched his hanks and back trail for forthe itle memory of his capture was still vivid B rock brock camped that night in a court coun try ettli unfamiliar ilar but the next day at voon noon from a barred hill he sighted far farto to the east the shewell well known rid ridges ge circling luk lake As the day waned and atud fieW he looked ked for a calop ground stid suddenly denly be came to io lk a diz deatly I 1 I 1 stop 10 I 1 cocking his bis rifle the boyt knelt beside his bli curious dog as his big corli roving g eyes covered we the spruce arid and jack ph pine d timber surrounding him in a senac search j ing inspection A show snowshoe shoe trail I 1 edw old goldbe be wondered H Uearl P ug seeing nothing after a eunce brock walked to 16 tile the trucks tracks in the snow it and bent to study them by geo ho horned arned owl flush I 1 ebald he said juthe ta the dog sniffing at tile trail ats its Gris liard I 1 the shape of the shoes which gaspard had find fiade and h a splice in the webbing elbl ng id them now kow what Is he be after I 1 wonder won derl said jhb lie curiola boy aloud fler i alv given n me up ns wiped nut ill bet and has gone on nn n TO BE 1313 CONTINUED |