KAZAN v 1 3 1 SI 1. I Ooprrlcht br the Bobbs-Merrlll Comptay. CHAPTER IX Continued. Knrnn stopped In the trail. lie catno back then and sot down upon his haunches beside her, waiting for her to move and speak. But she was very still. lie thrust his nose Into her loose hair. A whine rose In his throat, and suddenly he raised his head and sniffed In the face of the wind. Some thing came to htm with that wind. lie muzzled Joan again, but she did not stir. Then he went forward, and stood In his truces, ready for the pull, and looked back nt her. Still she did not move or speak, nnd Kazan's whine gave place to n sharp, escltcd bark. The strange thing In the wind camo to him stronger for a moment. He began to pull. The sledge runners had frozen to the snow, and It took every ounco of his strength to free them. Twice during the next flvo min utes he stopped and sniffed the air. The third time that he halted, In a drift of snow, he returned to Joan's side again, and whined to awaken her. Then he tugged again at the end of his traces, and foot by foot ho dragged the sledge through the drift. Beyond the drift there was a stretch of clear ice, and here Kazan rested. During a lull In the wind the scent came to him stronger than before. At the end of the clear Ice was a narrow break In the shore, where a creek ran Into the main stream. If Joan had been conscious she would have urged him straight ahead. But Kazan turned into the break, and for ten minutes he struggled through the snow without a rest, whining more and more frequently, until at last the whine broke Into a Joyous bark. Ahead of him, close to the creek, was a small cabin. Smoke was rising out of the chimney. It was the scent of smoke that had come to him In the wind. A hard, level slope reached to the cabin door, and with the last strength that was In him, Kazan dragged' his bur den up that Then he settled himself back beside Joan, lifted his shaggy head to the dark sky and howled. A moment later the door opened. A man came out Kazan's reddened, snow-ihot eyes followed him watch fully as he ran to the sledge. lie heard his startled exclamation as he bent over Joan. In another lull of tho wind there came from out of the mass of furs on the sledge the walling, half smothered voice of baby Joan. A deep sigh of relief heaved up from Kazan's chest He was exhausted. Ills strength was gone. Ills feet were torn and bleeding. But the voice of baby Joan filled him with a strange happiness, and he lay down In his traces, while the man carried Joan and tho baby into the life and warmth of the cabin. A few minutes later tho man reap peared. He was not old, like Pierre Itadlshon. He came close to Kazan, and looked down at him. "My Ood," he said. "And you did that alone 1" He bent down fearlessly, unfastened him from the traces, and led him toward the cabin door. Kazan hesi tated but once almost on the thresh old. He turned his head, swift and alert From out of the moaning and walling of the storm it seemed to him that for a moment ho bad heard the voice of Gray Wolf. Then the cabin door closed behind him. Back in a shadowy corner of the cabin he lay, while the man prepared something over a hot stove for Joan. It was a long time before Joan rose from the cot on which tho man had placed her. After that Kazan heard her sobbing; and then the man mado her cat, and for a timo they talked. Then tho stranger hung up a big blan ket in front of the bunk, and sat down close to the stove. Quietly Kazan slipped along the wall, nnd crept un der the bunk. For a long time he could hear the sobbing breath of the girl. Then all was still. Tho next morning he slipped out through the door when tho man opened It, and sped swiftly Into the forest Half a mile away he found tho trail of Gray Wolf, and called to her. From the frozen river came her reply, and lie went to ber, Vainly Gray Wolf tried to lure hlra ,back Into their old haunts away from the cabin and the scent of man. Late that morning the man harnessed kin dogs, and from the fringe of the forest Kazan saw him tuck Joan and the baby among the furs on tho sledge, as old Pierre bad done. All tout day By Jamos Ollvar 0 Garwood JOAN LEARNS THAT THE GREAT PRIZE INDEED, AFFECTION Kazan, a vicious Alaskan sledge dog, one-qunrtcr wolf, snves tho life of Thorpe, his master, nnd Is taken nloug when tho mnstcr goes to civilization to meet his bride nnd return with her to tho frozen country. Kvcn Thorpe Is afraid to touch Kazan, but Isobel, tho dog's new mis tress, wins his affection at once. On tho war northward McCreiuly, a dog-team driver, beats tho master Insenslblo nnd attacks tho bride. Kazan kills McCrendy, flees to tho woods, Joins a wolf pack, whips tho leader, takes n young mate, Gray Wolf, nnd n few nights Inter drives off the pack which had attacked Pierre, a sick man, his daughter Joan, nnd her baby. Knznn, lured by Joan's kindness, stnys near her. 1'lerro dies. Joan nnd Knznn start to pull tho sledgo to tho settle mcnt. Joan falls exhausted nnd cold. he followed In the trail of tho team, with Gray Wolf slinking behind him. They traveled until dark; nnd then, under the stars and the moon that had followed tho storm, tho man still urged on his team. It was deep In tho night when they enmo to another cabin, and tho man beat upon tho door. A light, tho opening of the door, the Joyous welcome of a man's voice, Joan's sob bing cry Kazan heard theso from the shadows In which ho was hidden, nnd then slipped back to Gray Wolf. In tho days nnd weeks that followed Joan's homecoming the lure of tho cabin nnd of the woman's hand held Knznn. As he had tolerated l'lerre, so now ho tolerated the younger man who lived with Joan nnd the baby. He knew that the man was very dear to Joan, nnd thnt tho baby was very denr to him, as It was to tho girl. It was not until tho third day that Jonn suc ceeded In coaxing him Into tho cabin nnd that was tho day on which tho man returned with the dead nnd fro zen body of Pierre. It wns Joan's husband who first found tho name on the collar he wore, and they began calling him Kazan. naif a mile away, at tho summit of n huge mass of rock which tho Indlnns called tho Sun rock, he nnd Gray Wolf had found a home; and from here they went down to their hunts on the plain, nnd often tho girl's volco reached up to them, calling, "Kazan I Kazan I Kazan 1" Through all the long winter Kazan hovered thus between the luro of Joan and tho cabin and Gray Wolf. Then camo spring and tho Great Change. CHAPTER X. The Great Change. The rocks, the ridges and the val leys were taking on a warmer glow. The poplar buds were ready to burst. The scent of balsam nnd of spruco grew heavier in the air each day, and all through tho wilderness, In plain and forest, there was the rippling murmur of the spring floods finding their way to Hudson's bay. In that great bay there was the rumble and crash of tho Ice fields thundering down In the enrly break-up through the Boes Welcome the doorway to the Arctic, and for that reason there still came with tho April wind an occasional sharp breuth of winter. Kazan had sheltered himself against that wind. Not n breath of air stirred In tho sunny spot tho wolf-dog had chosen for himself. He was more com fortable than ho had been at any time during the six months of terrible win terand as he slept ho dreamed. Gray Wolf, his wild mate, lay near him, flat on her belly, her forcpnws reaching out, her eyes nnd nostrils as keen and alort as tho smell of man could make them. For there was that smell of mnn, ns well ns of balsam and spruce, In tho warm spring nlr. She gazed anxiously nnd sometimes steadily, at Kazan ns ho slept. Her own gray spine stiffened when she saw the tawny hair along Kazan's back bristle at some dream vision. She whined softly as his upper Hp snarled back, showing his long, white fangs. But for the moat part, Kazan lay quiet, save for the muscular twltchlngs of legs, shoulders and muzzle, which always tell when a dog Is dreaming; and as ho dreamed thcro came to the door of the cabin out on the plain n blue-eyed girl-woman, with a big brown braid over ber shoulder, who called through tho cup of ber hands, "Knzan, Kazan, Kazan I" The voice reached faintly to tho top of tho Bun rock, and Gray Wolf flat tened her ears. Kazan stirred, and In another Instant he was awako and on IiIh feet. Ho leaped to an outcropping ledge, sniffing the air and looking far out over the plain that lay below them. Over the plain tho woman's volco came to them again, and Kazan ran to the edge of tho rock and whined. Gray Wolf stepped softly to his sldo nnd laid her muzzle on his shoulder. She had grown to know what the Volco meant. Day nnd night she feared It, more than sho feared tho scent or sound of man. Since sho had given up the pack and her old life for Kazan, tho Volco had becorao Gray Wlfs greatest enemy, and she hated It It took Kazan from her. And wherever It went, Kazan followed. Night after night It robbed her of her mate, and left her to wander alone LOVE OF KAZAN IS A VERY AND SHE SHOWS HER FOR THE DOG under tho stars nnd the moon, keeping faithfully to her loneliness, and never once responding with her own tonguo to tho hunt-cnltn of her wild brothers and sisters In the forests nnd out on tho plains. Usually sho would snarl nt tho Voice, nnd sometimes nip Knznn lightly to show her displeasure. But today, ns tho Voice enmo n third time, sho slunk buck luto tho darkness of n flssuro between two rocks, nnd Kazan saw only the tlery glow of her cyos. Knzan ran nervously to tho trail their feet had worn up to tho top of tho Sun rock, and stood undecided. All day, nnd yesterday, ho had been uu ensy nnd dUturbed. Whatovor It was that stirred him seemed to bo In tho air, for ho could not see It or hear It or scent It. But ho could feel It Ho went to the flssuro nnd sniffed nt Gray Wolf. Usually sho whined coaxtngly. But her rcsponso today wns to draw bnck her lips until ho could seo her white fangs. A fourth tlmo tho Volco camo to them faintly, and she snapped fiercely at somo unseen thing In tho darkness botween tho two rocks. Kazan went ngaln to tho trail, still hesitating. Then ho began to go down. It wns a nar row, winding trail, worn only by tho Darted Swiftly In the Direction of the Cabin. pads and claws of nnlmnls, for the Sun rock was n hugo crag that roso almost sheer up for a hundred feet abovo tho tops of tho spruco and balsam, Its bald crest cotchlng tho first gleams of the sun In tho morning und the last glow of It In the evening. Gray Wolf had first led Kazan to tho security of tho retreat at the top of tho rock. When ho reached the bottom bo no longer hesitated, but dortod swiftly In tho direction of the cabin. Becauso of thnt Instinct of tho wild that was still In him, he always approached tho cabin with caution. He never gave warning, nnd for n moment Joan wns startled when sho looked up from ber baby and saw Kazan's shaggy hoad and shoulders In tho open door, Tho baby struggled and kicked In hor de light, and held out hor two bands with cooing cries to Kazan. Joan, too, held out o hand. "Kazan I" sho crlod softly. "Come In, Kazan I" Slowly tho wild red light In Kazan's eyes softened. Ho put a forefoot on the sill, and stood there, whllo the girl urged him again. Syddonly his legs seemed to sink a little under him, bis tall drooped and ho slunk In with that doggish air of having committed a crime. Tho creatures ho loved were In tho cabin, but the cabin Itself ho hated. Ho hntod nil cabins, for they all brcuthed of tho club and tho whip bondage. Llko all tho slcdgo-dogs, he preferred tho open snow for a bed, and tho spruco-tops for shcltor. Joan dropped her hand to his head, and at Its touch thero thrilled through him that strango Joy that was his re ward for leaving Gray Wolf nnd tho wild. Slowly ho ralsod hla head until Ids black muzzle rested on her lap, and he closed his eyes while that wonder ful llttlo creature that mystified him so the baby prodded him with her tiny feet, and pulled his tawny hair. He loved these boby-mtullngs even more than the touch of Joan's hand. Motionless, sphlnxltke, undmontr- tlvo In cvory musclo of hla body, Ka snu stood, scarcely breathing. More thnu once this lack of demonstration had urged Jonn's husbnnd to wnrn tier. But tho wolf thnt wns In Katun, his wild aloofness, oven his mating with Gray Wolf hnd tnnda hor lovo him more. Sho understood, nnd hod faith In him. In tho days of tho last snow Kntnn hnd proved himself, A neighboring trapper hnd run over with his tenm, and tho bnby Jonn hnd toddlod up to ouo of tho big huskies. Thero was a fierce snnp of Jaws, n scrcnni of horror from Jonn, n shout from tho men ni they leaped toward tho pack. But Kn znn wns nhend of them nil. In n gray streak that traveled with tho speed of n bullet ho was tit tho big husky's thront. When they pullod htm off, the husky wns dead. Jonn thought of that now, ns tho bnby kicked nnd tousled Kazan's head. Another Important event bobs up for Kazan, and the wolf dog assumes a new pride and dignity. It's all told In the next Installment (TO HU CONTINUKD.) DRINKING WATER IN GUTTERS However, the Ladles of tho Andsan Capital Also Oath In It Ibngue, capital of tho Colombtnn provlnco of Tollma, claims 2,300 "souls," but tho count takes much for grunted. It Is a squnre-cornored town of almost wholly thatchod ono-stpry buildings, Its wldo streets atrociously cobblod and Its few sldewulks worn perilously slippery nnd barely wldo enough for two feet nt once. A stream of crystal-clear water gurgles down every stroot through cobbled gutters, lulling tho travel weary to sleep nnd furnishing a con venient menus of washing photographic films. Wo drank less often, however, ufter wo had strolled up to tho end of the mountain nnd found threo none-too-handsome Indies bathing In tho res ervoir. It Is a pencefut, roomy plnco, where cveryono has unlimited spaco on tho grassy, gontlo slope to put up his llttlo chalky, straw-roofed cottage, yet nil too tho stroot lino ns If fearful of miss ing anything thnt might unexpectedly pass. Foreigners seem to bo n grent novelty, nnd I could find no nt I fac tory ronson why so mnny Ibnguenos wero blind, unless they hnd overin dulged themselves In tho national gnmo of stnrlng. Hnrry A. Frnnck, In the Century Magazine. Eucalyptus Loaves. Eucalyptus nro ovcrgreens, which shed their bark but not their leavos, but they nro not shndo treos. Tho leaves nro placed In Inclined rathor thnn In horizontal positions, nnd the pnssngo of light Is but llttlo obstruct ed. For this reason, smaller trees nnd bushes nnd grass grow undornoatb, nnd tho woods In places nssumo tho npponrnnco of n Jungle from which nrlse tho towering shnfts of troes. It Is interesting to noto thnt primitive types of eucalyptus, as well ns the young or moro modern typos, hnvs horizontal leaves, pointing to a time In tho geologic past when tho cllmato wns moro congenial nnd no precau tions to conserve molsturo need bo tak en. National Geographic Mngnzlno. Big Profit In Onions. Roman 8klvlckl of Sundorlnnd con tinues to bo favored of fortune or by his own foresight. Ho held on to his onions when nil his wlso Ynnkeo frlonds snld "sell," nnd has got tho highest price on record, $7 a bag of 100 pounds. When tho prlco got up to $3 his Yankee friends dropped In nnd told Itomnn thnt It wns dangerous to hold on any longor, nnd thsy repeated tho warnings at H 5 and $0, but still Boman kept somo of thorn till tho last, If thore Is any Inst whon crops nro going up on a crop fnlluro. Boman mndo a not profit of $7,000 on his on ions In 1001, nnd he must havo dono much hotr than that this yeur, Northampton Gazette. Dootors Don't Know Everything. "I thought you told mo that your doctor had ordered you to quit drink ing?" said Smith. "Aw, theso doctors don't know whnt ihav nra tnlklnir nhotit." rfmllnrt Brown, as ho stlrrod IiIb highball. "I oult drinking for two dnys and I didn't feel a hit better." Ho Disliked Laziness. Aftor a duy or two in a hustling, bustling western town a tramp shook tho dust from his boots with a snarl. "They. must bo durn lazy people la this town. Everywhere you turn they offer you work to do," Safe to Be Around, "now Is your husband getting on with his golf?" "Very well, Indeed. Tho children nro allowed to watch him now." The dry season range of tomperatuM In Cuba la from 80 to 85 degree. SAGE AND SULPHUR DARKENS GRAY HAIR It's Grantlmother'fl ltcclpc Restore Color, GIohh nnd AttractlvcncsH. to Almost ovoryono knows that Sago Tea and Bulphur, proporly compound ed, brings bnck tho natural color nnd lustro to tho hair whon fadod, streak od or gray. 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