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« ——— ' -■-*%,« IBAREEi < » 4 ji Son of ;; Kazan I> « r < ► (f < ► ' <1 ii < ■ o " 4 » 1 •: By JAMES OUTER CURW3OD ;; : :l _Jf (©, Doubleday, Page & Co.) WNU Service THE STORY CHAPTER L—Part wolf, part dor — wh«n two month* old Bare* ha* hi* Er*t meeting with an enemy, Papayu ohieew (youn* owl). Fighting: hard, the antagonist* are suddenly plunged into a swoH*n creek. CHAPTER ll.—Badly buffeted, and half drowned. Baree 1* finally flung •a the bank, but the water ha* de- Ktroyed hi* senfae of direction and he I loot, lonely and hungry. For many day* hi* life la one of rear and dls trees. He ilnally wanders into the traptriag ground* of a halfbreed., Pier rot Du Queane, and his daughter. Ne peese the Willow. Taking Baree for a wolf. Mepeeae eh oof* and wounds him. hat he escapes. CHAPTER 111.-!—The wolf blood In Bare# becomes uppermost. He rapidly learns Nature’s secrets, though he finds ■o comrade* and is desperately lonely. CHAPTER IV.—Following Waknyoo, the Mack bear, Baree subsists royally on the cache* of fish the big fellow leaves. He comes agaln_ into Pierrot’s trapping domain. Pierrot shoots Wa k&yoo. Nepeese, insisting Baree is dog, not wolf, tries to capture him. Baree is strongly drawn to the girl, but canuot entirely dvercome his dread of man. • CHAPTER V.—Baree makes friends with a colony of beavers, losing much of his BenSe of loneliness. CHAPTER VI. Bush McTaggart, factor at Lac Bain, Hudson's Bay com pany's post, man of evil life, has long coveted Nepeese, even to the extent of offering marriage, but makes no prog ress with his suit. On his way to Pierrot and Nepeese McTaggart takes Baree in a trap, and in a struggle is bitten. With the dog he conies to Pierrot's cabin. CHAPTER Vll.—Nepeese claims Ba ree as hers, bathing me wounds in flicted by McTaggart after the dog had • bitten him. Then, promising to giv< him a definite answer to his lovemak ing Nepeese lures McTaggart to the edge of a deep pool and *hu»niliates him by plunging him into the water, at tlm same time taunting him for presum ing to address her. Blood poisoning developing from Ba roe's bite. McTag gart and Pierrot hasten to Lnc Bain to secure medical treatment. CHAPTER VIII. —Nepeese has spent three winters at a mission, win re slo has learned to read and sew. On Iter seventeenth birthday she fashions a costume Which properly sets foj th her really great beauty. naa ioukoo nc rsepeese more cioseiy than ever before in his life. Site was beautiful. She was lovelier even than Wyola, her princess mother, who was dead. That hair —which made men stare as if they could not believe! Those eyes—like pools filled whli won derful starlight! Her slimness, that was like a flower! And McTaggart had said — Floating back to him there came an excited cry. “Hurry, Nootawe! lie has lurned Into the blind canyon. Lie cannot cs-. cape us now.” She was panting whin be came up to her. The French blood in her glowed a vivid crimson in her checks and lips. Her white teeth gleamed like milk. “In there!” And she pointed. They went in. Ahead of them Baree was running for his life, lie sensed instinctively the fact that these wonderful two legged beings he had looked upon were all-powerful. And they were after him! He could hear them. Ne peese was following ylniost as swiftly as he could run. Suddenly he turned Into a cleft between two great rocks. Twenty feet in, his way was barred, and he ran back. When he darted out, straight up the canyon, Nepeese was noFTt £gzen yards behind him, and he saw* Pierrot at her sble, The ’Willow gave a cry. “Mar.a —There he is!” She eaught her breath, and darted into a copse of young balsams where Baree had disappeared. Like a great entangling web her loose hair impeded her in the brash, and with an encour aging cry to Pierrot she stopped to gather it over her shoulder as he ran past her. She lost only a moment or two, and was after him. Fifty yards ahead of her Pierrot gave a warning Shout. Baree had turned. Almost in the same breath he was tearing over his back trail, directly toward the Willow. He did not see her in time to stop or swerve aside, and Nepeese flung herself down in bis path. For an instant or two they were together. Baree felt the smother of her hair, and the clutch of her hands. Then he squirmed away and darted again to ward the blind end of the canyon* Nepeese sprung to her feet. She was panting—and laughing. Pierrot came back wildly, and the Willow pointed beyond him. “I had him—and he didn’t bite!” she said, breathing swiftly. She still pointed to the end of the canyon, and she said again: “I had him—and he didn’t bite me, Nootawe!” That was the wonder of it. She had been reckless —and Baree had not bit ten her! It was then, with her eyes shining at Pierrot, and the smile fad ing slowly from | her lips, that she spoke softly the word “Baree,” which In her tongue meant “the wild dog”— s little brother of the wolf. "Come,” cried Pierrot, "or ws will .use him!” Pierrot was confident. The canyon uad narrowed. Baree could not gel past tnem unseen. Three minutes inter Baree came to the blind end of the •anyon —a wail ms rock that rose straight up like the curve of a dish, feasting on tish and long hours of sleep had fattened him, and lie was half winded as he sought vainly for an exit. He was at the far end of the uishlike curve of rock, without a bush or a clump of grass to hide him, when Pierrot and Nepeese saw him again. Nepeese made straight toward him. Pierrot, foreseeing what Baree would do, hurtled to the left, nt right angles to the end of the canyon. In and out among the rocks Baree muglit swiftly for away of escape, in a moment more he had come to the ■•box,” or cup of the canyon. This was » break in the wail, fifty or sixty feet wide, which opened int 6 a natural prison about an acre in extent. It was a beautiful spot. On all sides but rhat leading into the coulee it was shut in by walls ©f rock. At the far end a waterfall broke down in a series of rippling cascades. The grass was thick underfoot and strewn with flow ers. In this trap Pierrot had got more than one fine haunch of venison. From ft there was no escape, except In the face of his rifle. He called to Nepeese as he saw Baree entering It, and to gether they climbed the slope. Baree bad almost reached the edge of the little prison meadow when sud denly he stopped himself so quickly Full in His Path Stood Wakayoo—the Huge Black Bear. that lie fell back on his haunches, and his heart jumped up into his throat. Full in his path stood Wakayoo, the huge black bear! For perhaps a half-minute Baree hesitated between the two perils. He heard the voices of Nepeese and Pier rot. lie caught the rattle of stones under their feet. And he was filled with a great dread. Then he looked at Wakayoo. The big bear bad not moved an inch. He, too, was listening. But to him there was a thing more disturbing than tiie sounds he heard, ft wuss tiie scent which he caught in the air—the man-scent. Baree, -watching him. saw his head swing slowly even as the footsteps of Nepeese and Pierrot became more and more distinct. It was the first time Baree had ever stood face to face with the bfg bear. He had watched him lish; he had fattened on Wakayoo’s prowess; he had held him in splendid awe. Now there was something about the bear that took away bis fear and gave him in its place a new and thrill ing confidence. Wakayoo, big and powerful as he was, would not run from tiie two-legged creatures who pursued him ! If Baree could only get cast Wakayoo he was safe! Br.ree darted to one side and ran for the open meadow. Wakayoo did not stir as Baree sped past him —no more than if he had been a bird or a rabbit. Then canto another breath of air. heavy with the scent of man. at last, put life into him. He . ui'i.ed and began lumbering after lbiree into Hie meadow trap. Bar: , f looking back, saw him coming—and thought it was pursuit. Nepeese and Pierrot t*ame over tjie slope, and at / ; c 'nstsnt they saw Wakayoo Mid ni.lf-P. When they entered into the grassy <!!p under the rock walls, Baree turned sharply to the right. Here was a great boulder, one end of it tilted up off the earth. It looked like a splen did iiiding place, and Baree crawled under it. But Wakayoo kept straight ahead into tlie meadow. From where he lay Baree could see what happened. Scarcely had he •raveled under the rock when Nepeese »nd Pierrot appeared through the weak in tiie dip, and stopped. The !Y.ct timt they stopped thrilled Baree. They were afraid of Wakayoo! The big hear was two-thirds of the way Teross Ihe meadow. The sun fell on 'dm, so fils coat.shone like black satin. Pierrot did not kill for the love "of fiH’r.g. Necessity made him a con-- "ervnthmist. But he saw that in snjt* >f the lateness of the season. Wnka • oo’s co.it was splendid—and he raised 1 :ds rifle. Baree saw this action. He saw, a aomeiit later, something spit from th< ■n«l of the gun, and then he beard 'cat de.ifcrrng crash that had come Bh Vs own hurt, when the Willow’s ; •Vet had burned s brough his flesh 1 ’e ir-mol his, eyes swiftly to S.' dca .. -u. .lie I bear had stumbled; h* wnfi on Us It nees; and then be strug gled fio and lumbered on. The roar of the rifle came again, and a second time Wakayoo went down. Pierrot could not miss at that distance. Wakayoo made a splenddi mark. It was slaughter; yet for Pierrot and Nepeese it was business — the business of life. Baree was shivering. It was more from excitement than fear, for he had lost his own fear in the tragedy of these moments. A low whine rose in his throat as he looked at Wakayoo, who had risen again and faced his enemies—ids jaws gaping, his head swinging slowly, his legs weakening under him ns the blood poured through his torn lungs. Baree whined—be cause Wakayoo had fished for him, because he had come to look on him as a friend, and because he knew It was death that Wakayoo was facing now. There was a third shot —the last. Wakayoo sank down in his tracks. His big bead dropped be tween his forepaws. A racking cough or two came to Baree. And then there was silence. It was slaughter—but business. A minute later, standing over Wakayoo. Pierrot said to Nepeese: “Mon Dleu. but it Is a fine skin, Snkahet! It is worth twenty dollars over at Lac Bain!” He drew forth his knife and began ; whetting It on a stone which he car- j ried In his pocket In these minutes ; Baree might have crawled out from • under his rock and escaped down the \ ennyon; for a space he was forgotten, j Then Nepeese thought of him, and In ! that same strange, wondering voice she spoke again the word “Baree.” Pierrot, who was kneeling, looked up at her. | "Oul. Snkahet. He was horn of the wild. And now he Is gone—” The Willow shook her head. “Non. he Is not gf'ne.” she said, and ! her dark eyes quested the sunlit j meadow. As she quested the ragged edges of i the little meadow for signs of the dog pup, her thoughts flashed hack swiftly. Two years ago they had buried her princess mother under the tall spruce near their cabin. That day Pierrot’s ; sun had set for all time, and her own | life was filled with a vast loneliness, j There had been three at the graveside j that afternoon as the sun went down J —Pierrot, herself, and a dog, a great, I powerful husky with a white star on | Ills breast and a white-t’pped ear. lie 1 had been her dead mother’s pet from puppyhood—her bodyguard, with her : always, even with his head resting on j the side of her bed ns she diod. And ! that night. the night of the day they j buried her, the dog had disappeared. | He had gone as quietly and as com- • pletely as her spirit. No one ever saw | him after that. It was strange, and to j Pierrot it was a miracle. Deep in his j heart he was filled with the wonder- j ful conviction that the dog had gone with his beloved Wyola into heaven. But Nepeese had spent three win ters at the Missioner’s school at Nel son house. She had learned a great deal about white people and the reel Hod. and she knew that Pierrot’s thought was impossible. She believed that her mother’s husky was either dead or had .joined the wolves. Prob ably he lin'd gone to the wolves. So — was it not possible that tins youngster she and her father had pursued was of ; the flesh and blood of her mother's pet? It was more than possible. The j white star on his breast, the white- I tipped ear —the fact that he had not bitten her when he might easily have buried his fangs in the soft flesh of her arms! She was convinced. While Pierrot skinned the hear, she began hunting for Baree. j Baree lmd not moved an inch from under his rock. He lay like a thing , stunned, his eyes fixed steadily on tliP scene of the tragedy out in the meadow. He had se f, n something that j he would never forget—even as he would never quite forget his mother j‘ and Kazan and the old windfall. He j had witnessed the death of the cren- j ture he had thought all-powerful. ' Wakayoo, the big bear, had not even J put up a figbt. Pierrot and Nepeese had killed him without touching him; now Pierrot was cutting him with a knife which shot silvery flashes in the sun; and Wakayoo made no move ment. It made Baree shiver, and he drew himself an inch farther back under the rock, where he was already wedged nr !* he had been shoved there by a strong hand. He could see Nepeese. She came straight back to the break through j which his flight had taken him, and j stood at last not more than twenty I feet from where he was hidden. Now j that she stood where he could not escape, she began weaving her sinn ing hair into two thick braids. Baree had taken his eyes from Pierrot, and he watched her curiously. Ho was not afraid now. Ills nerves Mnglcd. In him a strange and growing force was struggling to solve a great mys tery—the reason for his desire to creep out from under his rock and ap proach that wonderful creature with the shining eyes and the beautiful hair. Nepeese was looking about her. She was smiling. For a moment her face was turned toward him, and he flaw the white shine of her teeth, and her beautiful eyes seemed glowing straight at him. And then, suddenly, she dropped on her knees and peered under the rock. Their eyes met. For at least half a minute there was not a sound. Nepeese did not move, and her breath came so softly that Baree could not hear It. Then she said, almost In a whisper: "Baree! Baree! 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