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. 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