Show IS ON y by james oliver curzadd A LOVE epic OF THE FAR 1917 by doubleday pago paga C co WAREE BAREE aon OF KAZAN a VIta graph picture with wolf the th war D doa la Is an adaptation of this story SYNOPSIS the factor had gone to the cabin of pierrot the trapper to claim pierrott Pier rots daughter Ne as his bride led him to the blink of the chasm he put his arms about the girl but she hatred flaring up in lier her freed herself an and d pushed him over the brink and into a pool twenty feet below then returning to the cabin fondled baree baaree the wolf dog her touch thrilled the young untamed animal under her caress his eyes closed but at sound of her voice they shot open again CHAPTER XIV continued he will come here that beast and lie he will kill us she was saying he will kill you because you bit him baree baaree ugh I 1 wish you were bigger and stronger so that you could take off his head for me she was untying the from about the table e leg and under her breath she laughed she was not frightened it was a tremendous adventure and she throbbed with exultation at the thought of having beaten the man beast in her own way she could see him in the pool struggling and beating about like a great fish he was just about crawling out of the chasm now and she laughed again as she caught baree baaree up under her arm oh copi nao but yau vou are heavy she gasped and yet I 1 must carry you because I 1 am going to run she hurried outside pierrot had not mot rome come and she darted swiftly into the balsams back of the cabin with baree baaree hung in the crook of her arm like a backfilled sack tilled filled ut at both ends and tied lied in in the middle he felt like that too but he still had no inclination to wriggle himself free ran with him until her arm ached then she stopped and put him down on his feet holding to the end of the caribou skin thong that was tied about his neck she was prepared for any lunge he might make to escape she expected that he would make an attempt and for a few moments she watched him closely while baree baaree with his feet on earth once more looked about him and then the willow spoke to him softly you are not going to run away baree baaree non you are going to stay with me and we will kill that man beast if he dares do to me again what lie he did back there she flung back the loose hair from about her flushed face and for a moment she forgot baree baaree as she thought of that half minute at the edge of the chasm he was looking straight up at her when her glance fell on him again non you are not going to run away you are going to follow me she whispered come they came at last into an open it was a tiny meadow in the heart of the forest not more than three or four times as big as the cabin underfoot the grass was soft and green and thick with flowers straight through the heart of this little oasis trickled a streamlet across which the willow jumped with baree baaree under h her ier arm and on the edge of the rill was a small wigwam made of freshly cut spruce and balsam boughs into her diminutive mckewan the willow thrust her head to see that things were as she had left them yesterday then with a long breath of relief she put down her four legged burden and fastened the end of the to one of the cut spruce limbs baree baaree burrowed himself back into the wall of the wigwam and with head alert and eyes wide open watched attentively what happened after this not a movement of the willow escaped him she was radiant and happy her laugh sweet and wild as a birds trill set barbes heart throbbing with a desire to jump about with her among the flowers for a time nomeese see seemed me d to forget baree baaree her wild blood raced faced with the joy of her triumph over the factor from lac bain she saw saw him again floundering about in the pool pictured hildat the cabin now soaked and angry qa demanding mandin g of mon pore me where she had gone and mon pere with a shrug of his shoulders was telling him that lie he know that probably she had run off into the forest it did not enter her head that in tricking bush Taggart Me in that way she had played with dynamite she did not foresee the peril that in an in instant would have stamped th the e wild flush from her face and curdled the blood in her veins did not guess that had become for her a deadlier menace than ever there came an interruption it was the snapping of a dry stick through the forest pierrot had bad come with the stealth of a cat and when they looked up he stood at the edge of the open baree baaree knew that it was not bush T but it was a man beast instantly his body stiffened under the willows hand band he drew back slowly and cautiously from lier her lap and as pierrot advanced baree baaree snarled the next instant had bad risen and had run to pierrot the look in her fathers face alarmed her what has happened mon pere perc she cried pierrot sli shrugged rugged his shoulders nothing ma except capt that that you have roused a thousand devils in in the heart of the factor from lac bain and that 11 he stopped as he saw baree baaree and pointed at him last night when the factor caught him in a snare he bit MS icus hand hand is swollen twice its size and I 1 can see his blood turning black it is poo poo ool gasped Ne she looked into pierrott Pier rots eyes they were dark and filled with a sinister gleam a flash of exultation she thought yes it is the blood poison said pierrot rot A gleam of cunning shot into his eyes as he be looked over his shoulder and nodded 1 I have hidden bidden the medicine and told him there is no time to lose in getting back to lac bain and he be is afraid that devil he is waiting with that blackening hand he be is afraid to start back alone and so I 1 go with him and listen ma Ne we will be away by sundown and there is something you must know before I 1 go baree baaree saw them there close together in the shadows thrown by the tall spruce trees he heard the low murmur of their voices chiefly of pierrott Pier rots and at last he saw put her two arms up around the man beasts neck and then pierrot went away again into the forest CHAPTER XV for a long time after pierrot left them the willow did not move from where she had seated herself beside baree baaree it was at last the deepening shadows and a near rumble nimble in the sky that roused her from the fear of the things pierrot had told her when she looked up black clouds were massing slowly over the open space above the spruce tops darkness was falling 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 for the first time baree baaree got up and he stood close at her side above them a lightning flash cut the clouds like a knife of fire followed in an instant by a terrific crash of thunder baree baaree shrank back as if struck at a raj f blow he would have slunk into the 11 shelter of the brush wall of the wigwam but there was something about the willow as he looked at her which gave him confidence the thunder crashed again but he retreated no farther his eyes were fixed on ne nc on that night it may be the spirit of storm was born bom in Ne she loved to face it as she was facing it now it made her forget all ali things but the splendid might of nature her half balf wild soul thrilled to the crash and fire of it often she had reached up her bare arms and laughed with joy as the deluge burst about her even now no she might have stood there in the little open until the rain fell if a whine from baree baaree had bad not turned her As the first big drops struck q t ru c with the dull thud of leaden bullets about them she went with him into the balsam shelter once before baree baaree had passed through a night of terrible storm the night he had hidden himself under a root and saw the tree riven by lightning but now he had company and the warmth and soft pressure of the willows hand on his head and neck diled him with a strange courage he growled softly at the crashing thunder he wanted to snap at abc the lightning ligh aning fl flashes ashes under her hand felt the stiffening of his body and in a moment of uncanny stillness she heard the sharp uneasy click of his teeth then the rain fell to be continued |