K A ZA N
j The Story of a Dog
! That Turned Wolf
By
J&mef O liv e r Curw ood
Copyn«hi Bobbo Metnll Co.
KAZAN ONCE AGAIN C0M E9
UNDER MAN'S INFLUENCE
AND PERFORMS GREAT
GOOD DEEDS.
Knzau. a vicious Alaskan
sloflge dog, one-quarter wolf,
saves his master's Ilf* and Is ta-
keu along when the master goes
to civilization to meet his bride
and return with her to the fro
zen country. Even the muster
Is nfrahl to touch the dog. but
Isobel, Kazan's new mistress,
wins his affection at once. On
the way northward McOready. a
dog-team driver. Joins the party,
and on the following night. In
flamed by drink, he beats the
master iusAisihle and attacks
the bride. Kazan flies at the
assailant's throat, kills him,
flees to the woods. Joins a wolf
pack, whips the leader and takes
n young mate. Gray Wolf.
R e was hurt. And Gray Wolf was
hurt, but not so badly as Kazan. Ha
was tom and bleeding. One of his legs
wns terribly bitten. After a tlma ha
•aw a tire In the edge of the foreat. l ’ha
old call was strong upon him. Ha
wantad to crawl In to It, aud feel the
girl's hand on his head, aa ho had felt
that other hand In the world beyond
tho ridge, lie would buve gone—and
would have urged Gray Wolf to go
with hln»— but tne man was thera. 11a
whined, and Gray Wolf thrust her
warm muzzle against his neck. Rotua-
j thing told them both that they wars
outcasts, that the plains, aud ths tuoon,
and the stars were agalust them now,
and they slunk Into the shatter aud tho
gloom of the forest.
Kazan could not go far. Ila could
still smell the camp when ha lay down.
Gray Wolf snuggled close to him.
Gently she toothed with her soft tongue
Kazan's bleedlug wouuds. And Kazan,
lifting his head, whined softly to the
stun*.
CHAPTER VII.
Joan.
On the edge of the cedar nnd spruce
forest old Pierre Radlsson built the
fire. He wns bleeding from a dozen
wounds, where the fangs of the wolves
hnd reached to his flesh, and he felt In
his breust that old and terrible pain, of
which no one knew the meaning hut
himself. He dragged in log after log.
piled them on the fire until the flames
leaped up to tho crisping needles of
the limbs above, and heaped a supply
close at hand for use later In the night.
From the sledge Joan watched him,
still wild-eyed and fearful, still trem
bling. She was holdiug her baby close
to her breast. Her long heavy hair
smothered her shoulders and arms In
a dark lustrous veil that glistened nnd
rippled In the firelight when she
moved. Her young face was scarcely
u woman’s tonight, though she was a
mother. She looked like a child.
Old Pierre laughed ns he threw down
the last urmful of fuel, and stmxl
breathing hard.
"It was close, ma cherle," he panted
through his white heard. “We were
nearer to death out there on the pluln
than we will ever be ugaln, I hope. But
we are comfortable now, nnd wurm.
Eh? You are no longer afraid?"
He sat down beside his daughter,
nnd gently pulled back the soft fur
that enveloped the bundle she held In
her arms. lie could see one pink cheek
of baby Joan. The eyes of Joan, the
mother, were like stars.
“It was the baby who saved us," she
whispered. “The dogs were being torn
to pieces by the wolves, and I saw them
CHAPTER VI.—Continued.
—6—
Three hundred yards beyond that
moving blotch was the thin line of tim
ber. and Kazan and his followers bore
down swiftly. Halfway to the timber
they were almost upon it. and suddenly
It stopped and became a black and mo
tionless shudow on the snow. From out
of it there leaped that lightning tongue
of flame that Kuzan had always dread
ed. aud he heard the hissing song of
the death-hee over his head. He did
not mind it now. He yelped sharply,
and the wolves raced In until four of
them were neck-and-ueck with him.
A second flash—and the death-bee
drove from breast to tail of n huge
gray fighter close to Gray Wolf. A
third—a fourth—a fifth spurt of that
fire from the black shadow, and Kazan
himself felt a sudden swift passing of
n red-hot thing along his shoulder,
where the man's last bullet shaved off
the hair and stung his flesh.
Three of the pack had gone down un
der the Are of the rifle, and half of
the others were swinging to the right
and the left. But Kazan drove straight
ahead. Faithfully Gray Wolf followed
him.
The sledge-dogs hnd been freed from
their traces, and before lie could reach
the man, whom he saw with his rifle
held like a cluh in his hands, Kazan
was met by the fighting muss of them.
He fought like a fiend, and there was
the strength and the fierceness of two
mates In the mad gnashing of Gray
Wolf’s fangs. Kazan wanted to reach
the man who held the rifle, and he
freed himself from the fighting mass of
the dogs and sprang to the sledge. For
the first time he saw that there was
something human on the sledge, and In
an Instant he was upon It. He burled
his Jaws deep. They sank In something
soft and hairy, and he opened them for
another lunge. And then he heard the
voice! It was her voice! Every muscle
In his body stood still. He became sud
denly like flesh turned to lifeless stone.
Her voice; the bear rug was thrown
hack and what had been hidden under
it he saw clearly now in the light of
Fought Like Ten Demons Now.
the moon und the stars. In 1dm Instinct
worked more swiftly than human brain
leaping upon you, when one of them
could have given birth to reason. It •
sprang to the sledge. At first I thought
was not she. But the voice was the
It was one of the dogs. But It was a
same, and the white girlish face so
wolf. He tore once at us, nnd the bear
close to his own blood-reddened eyes 1
held In it that same mystery that he skin saved us. He was almost at my
had learned to love. And he saw now throat when baby cried, nnd then he
that which she was clutching to her stood there, his red eyes a foot from
breast, nnd there came from It a us, nnd I could have sworn that he was
a dog. In an instant he turned, and
strange thrilling cry.
In a flash he turned. He snapped at wns fighting the wolves. I suw him
Gray W olfs flank, nnd she dropped leap upon one that was ulmost at your
away with a startled yelp. It had all throat.”
“He was a dog,” said old Pierre,
happened In a moment, hut the man
holding
out his hands to the warmth.
was ulmost down. Kazan leaped under
his clubbed rifle nnd drove Into the “They often wander awny from the
face of what was left of the pack. His posts, and Join the wolves. I have hnd
fangs cut like knives. If he had fought dogs do that. Ma cherle, a dog Is a dog
like a demon against the dogs, he nil his life. Kicks, abuse, even the
fought like ten demons now, and the ! wolves cannot change him—for long.
mnn—bleeding nnd ready to fall—stug- He wus one of the pack. He came with
gored back to the sledge, marveling at them—to kill. But when he found
whut was happening. For In Gray | un—”
Wolf there was now the infginct of \ “He fought for us,” breathed the
matehood, and seeing Kuzan tearing : girl. She gave him the bundle, and
and fighting the pack she Joined him In Stood up, straight nnd tall and slim In
the struggle which she could not un the firelight. “He fought for us—and
he was terribly hurt,” she said. "I saw
derstand.
When it was over, Kazan and Gray him drag himself away. Father, if he
Wolf were alone out on the plain. The is out there—dying—”
ipnck bnd slunk away into the night,
Pierre Radlsson stood up. He
and the same moon nnd stars thpt had coughed In n shuddering way, trying to
given to Kazan the first knowledge of stifle the sound under hts beard. The
his birthright told him now that no fleck of crimson that came to his lips
longer would those wild brothers of with the cough Joan did not see.
the plains respond to his call when he She had seen nothing of It daring the
six days they had been traveling up
howled Into the sky.
from the edge of elvlllzatlon. Because Whe held out her hand. Kazan’s m i»
of that cough, nnd the strain that came cles twitched. He moved an Inch.—
with It, Pierre had uncle more than or two Inchea toward her, There waa the
dinary hustc.
old light In her eyes and face now, (ha
"J have Ixwii thinking of that." he love and gentleness he hnd known mice
aald. " lie wna badly hurt, and I do liefore, when another woman with ahln-
not think he went fur. Here— take tit Iitg hair and eyea had come Into hU Ufe.
tle Joan and alt close to the firs until I "C o m e r she whispered aa slie aaw him
come hack."
move, and she bent n little, reached a
The moon and the stars were bril little farther with tier hand, nnd at lae«
liant In the sky when Its went out lu touched tils head.
the plain. A short distance from ths
edge of ths timber lino he stood for a
The young woman, by kind-
moment upon ths spot where ths
nets, wine from this fleroe wolf-
wolves had overtaken them un hour
dog a service that aavee her Ilf*.
before. Not one of tils four dogs hud
It's all told In the neat InoUIL
lived. The snow was red with their
m ent
blood, and their bodies lay stiff where
they had fallen under ths pack. Pierre
shuddered as he looked nt them. If
CTO IIIB C O N T I N U E D . )
ths wolves had not turned their first
mad attack upon the d«ga. what would
have become of hltnself, Joan aud the W ELL EQUIPPED WITH BRAINS
baby? He turned away, with another
of those hollow coughs that brought Nature Was by No Meant Niggardly
When She Handed Feathered
the blood to hts lips.
Creatures Their Portion.
A few yurda to one side he found In
the snow the trail of the strange dog
Naturalists have arrived at the con
that had come with the wolves, and
had turned ugulnst them In thnt mo clusion that the brain In birds Is large
ment when alt seemed lost. It wns not In proportion to tho hotly. If It Is ad
a clean running trull. It wns more of | mitted that Intelligence depends upon
a furrow In the snow, and Pierre Itnd- the weight of brain, then the goldfinch
Isaon followed It, expecting to find the must he placed lit the top of the list of
birds; the brain weighs one fourteenth
dog dead at the end of It.
Ill the sheltered spot to which he hnd of Its whole body. It must he remarked.
drugged himself in the edge of the for | however, that attempts to draw con
est Kazan lay for a long time after clusions as to tin* Intelligence of cer
the fight, ulert and watchful. He felt tain birds frt.ni a comparison of the
no very great pain. But lie hud lost weight of the brain with that of tho
the power to stand upon his leg*. His ! body have been considered futile. In
flunks seemed purnlj/tsl. Gray Wolf , man the bruin forms from one-twenty-
crouched close at his -.ide, shilling the second to one-thirty-thlrd of the whole
air. They could smell the camp, nnd body; In the canary, one-fourtoaoth;
Kuzan could detect the two things that the sparrow, one-twenty fifth } tho
one-twenty-seventh;
the
were there—man and woman. He knew chaffinch.
that the girl was there, where he could r e i l l m - u s t . one thirty-second; the black
one-slzty eighth;
the
duck,
; see the glow' of the firelight through bird,
the spruce and tho cedars. He wanted one-two-hundred ami fifty seventh; tho
one two hundred and sixtieth;
to go to her. He wanted to drag him eagle,
self close in to the fire, and take Gray the goose, one-three-hundred-and sixti
Wolf with him, nnd listen to her voice eth ; th«> domestic l ie n , one-four hun-
B u t dred nnd twelfth. B y some the prefer-
and feel the touch of her hand
the man wna there, and to him man naturally cunning raven Is supposed to
hnd always meant the club, the whip, he the most highly developed of birds.
Ills courage Is so great that tho engl*
pain, death.
Gray Wolf crouched close to his respects It. ami Uls Intelligence pre
side, and whined softly a s she urged vents lilm from getting Into unseen
Kazan to fh-e deeper with her Into the though suspected dangers.
forest. At lust nhe understood that he
could not move, und she ran nervously
Make Home Happy.
out into the pluln, nnd hack again, un
Hnppy. well-ordered Inanes nre the
til her footprints were thick In the foundations of society, a solid hnsla
trail she made. The Instincts of mate- on which to build n state. Ilome-tnsk-
hood were strong In her. It was she Ing Is something beyond and superior
who first saw Pierre Itudlsson com to mere housekeeping. It Is a high
ing over their trail, und she ran swift calling. It requires noble traits of
ly hack to Kuzan und gave the warn character and fine executive ability
ing.
und real wisdom. The re«i>onslblUty
Then Kazan caught the scent, nnd of the home-making does not devolve
he saw the shadowy figure coming on one alone. Every member of the
through the starligh t
He tried t° family bus bis or her share. Friends
drug himself hack, hut he could move ure dear, strangers have n certain
only by Inches. The man came rapidly clulm on us, but tlie members of our
nearer. Kazan caught the glisten of fumlly ure nearer und dearer. Give
the rifle in his bund. He heard his of your love, your help, your sympathy
hollow cough, und the trend of his feet and coinfort to your own family first
In the snow. Gray Wolf crouched and most. Those with happy homes
shoulder to shoulder with him, trem ure more utile to give from the In-art
bling and showing her teeth. When to others in need. No one run tell
Pierre had nppmuchyd within fifty feet how far the Influence of u happy home
of them she slunk bad: Into the deeper ! will go.
shadows of the spruce;
Kazan’s fangs were bared menacing
He Wanted to Know.
ly when Pierre stopped und looked
The late E. II. Hnrrltnan, says the
down at him. With un effort he Wull Street Journal, wns a stickler for
drugged himself to his feet, hut fell facts. He cured little for an approxl-
■ mate statement. When he asked his
leaned his rifle against a sapling und employees for Information he wnnted
bent over him fearlessly. With u fierce )t (|,.flnite
growl Kazan snapped at his extended I Whlle tnlVellng through ths cheer-
hands
To his surprise the man d d ,
d<.8ert, of Nevada one day with a
not pick up a stick or a club. He held , num|><.r of
Mie tJnion
out bis hand again—cautiously and Pacific, the train passed a little sta
spoke in a voice new to Kazan, Ths tion with much platform, a bleak hack
dog snapped again, and growled.
ground of sagebrush and Junipers, nnd
The man persisted, talking to him no habitation within sight.
all the time, and once his mlttened
“Whut Is thnt station there for?”
hand touched Kazan's head, and es asked Mr. Hnrrltnan of one of the rail
caped before the Jaws could reach 1t. way officials with the party.
Again anil again the man reached out
“They ship n few cattle and two or
Ids hand, anil three times Kazan felt three cars of wool.”
, the touch of it, und there wus neither
“Which la It, two or three?" snapped
threat nor hurt In It. At lust Pierre Mr Hurrlmnn. “Which Is it? There is
j turned away und went back over the „ d i f f e r e n c e of 33 1-8 per cent.”
trull.
When he was out of sight nnd hear
Not Like a Church.
ing. Kazan whined, and the crest along
The express elevator in one of the
his spine flattened. He looker! wist offlee buildings flew up to tho tenth
fully toward the glow of the fire. The floor. Nobody called for a floor num-
mnn hnd not hurt him, nnd the three- her, nobody »poke.
quarters of him that wns dog wanted
All nt once a timid little vole* said:
to follow.
“Mother, please, rnuy I speak 7”
Gray Wolf came back, and stood
"Of course, dear, why u o t r an-
with stiffly planted forefeet nt his side. swered mother.
She had never been tills neur to man
"O, It Is not here like In church
before, except when the pack bad over then, Isn't It?" cuino the quite relieved
taken the sledge out on the plain. She reply.
could not understand. Every Instinct
that was In her warned her that he
The Exception.
was the most dangerous of nil things,
“I am going to cull up Hint pretty
more to be feared than the strongest telephone girl nnd nsk her to marry
beasts, the storms, the floods, cold and m < \ "
starvation. And yet this man hnd not
"Then you won’t get the usual an
harmed her mate. She sniffed nt Ka swer.”
zan’s bock nnd head, where the mlt
“What do you mean?”
tened hand had touched. Then she
“She’ll hurry to reply, ‘Ring on.’ "
trotted hack Into the darkness ngaln.
for beyond the edge of the forest she
Deer Wae a Fighter.
once more saw moving life.
A Inrge deer appeared In a Virginian
The man wns returning, and with pnsture In which there wns a large
him was the girl. Ile r voice wns soft number of cows nnd defeated the cat
nnd sweet, and there wns about her the tle In a pitched battle, goring several
Breath nnd sweetness of woman. The of them to such nn extent that they
man stood prepared, but not threaten later died. The deer wns captured and
killed by a posse.
ing.
“lie careful, Joan ," he warned.
She dropped on her kneee In the
Milwaukee Pythian« plan erectloo of
snow, Just out of reach.
a temple to coat >300,000. flirt ion
"Come, boy—come I” she gold gently. 1
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