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KAZAN.
BYNOPBIB. iflflFjj * |
CHAPTER I—Kuan, the wtlfl sledg*
dog, one-quarter wolf and three-quarter
husky," distrustful of all men becauaa
of their brutal treatment of him, learna
to love hla master's wife when ahe la kind
to him In new and strange surroundings.
CHAPTER ll—He shows snarling enmi
ty to McCready, who la to accompany
Thorpe and hla wife to the Red River
camp.
CHAPTER lll—Kazan knowa that Mo-
Cready la a murderer. McCready Health
ily caresaea Isobel's hair and Kazan at
tacka him. Thorpe whip* Kazan. Mo-
Cready trlea to murder Thorpe and at
tacka IsobeL Kazan kills blm and than,
fearing the club In punishment, rune away
into the foreat
CHAPTER IV—Torn between love of hla
mistress, the fear of hla maatar*a club and
the desires of the wolf nature In him, ha
at length sends forth the wolf cry.
CHAPTER V—Kaxan rune with th*
wolvea, fights tbelr leader, tinman Ma
ter of the pack, and matea with Gray
Wolf.
CHAPTER VT—Kazan and the pack at
tack Pierre Radlsson, hla daughter Joan
and her baby, but In the battle Kaaaa
tur.ns dog again and helpa drive off the
wolves.
CHAPTER vn— Kazan's woflfids are
dressed and he la tied to the eledge.
CHAPTER Vlll—Pierre and Kazan drag
the sledire. Gray Wolf follows at a dis
tance. Pierre dies, 40 miles away from
their home on the Little Beaver.
CHAPTEk xa— out oi a blizzard Kazan
drags the eledge with Joan and the baby
on it to safety and then goes back to
Gray Wolf. He spends the long winter
hovering between the lure of Joan and
the baby and Qray Wolf.
CHAPTER X—ln their den on the top of
Sun Rock puppies come to Gray Wolf and
Kazan In the spring.
CHAPTER XI—A lynx kills the puppies
and blinds Gray Wolf. Kazan kills the
lynx. Joan and her husband go away to
the South. Kazan stays with Qray wolf.*
CHAPTER Xn—Kazan and Gray Wolf
travel. He Is eyes to her and she Is ears
and nose to him.
A Quarter of a mile away Gray Wolf
had caught the dreaded scent of man
In the wind, and was giving voice to
her warning. It was a long walling
howl, and not until its last echoes had
died away did Sandy McTrlgger move.
Then he returned to the canoe, tools
out his old gun, put a fresh cap on the
nipple and disappeared quickly over;
the edge of the bank.
For a week Kazan and Gray Wolf
had been wandering about the headwa
ters of the McFarlane and this was the
first time since the preceding wlnter|
that Gray Wolf had caught the scent of
man In the air. When the wind brought
the danger-signal to her she was alone.
Two or hree minutes before the scent
came to her Kazan bad left her side in
swift pursuit of a snow-shoe rabbit,
and she lay flat on her belly under a
bush, waiting for him. In these mo
l
tnents when she wag alone Gray Wolf
was constantly sniffing the air. Blind
ness bad developed her scent and
hearing until they were next to In
fallible. First she had heard the rattle
of Sandy McTrigger's paddle against
the side of his canoe a quarter of a
mile away. Scent had followed swift
ly. Five minutes after her warning
howl Kazan stood at her side, his head
flung up, his Jaws open and panting.
Sandy had hunted Arctic foxes, and he
was using the Eskimo tactics now,
swinging in a half-circle until he should
come up In the face of the wind. Ka
zan caoght a single whiff of the man
tainted air and his spine grew stiff.
But blind Gray Wolf was keener than
the little red-eyed fox of the north. Her
pointed nose slowly followed Sandy's
progress. She heard a dry stick crack
under his feet three hundred yards
away. £-tie caught the metallic click of
his gun-barrel as It struck a birch sap
ling. The moment she lost Sandy In
the wind she whined and rubbed her
self against Kazan and trotted a few
steps to the southwest.
At times such as this Kazan seldom
refused to take guidance from her.
They trotted away side by side and by
the time Sundy was creeping up snake
like with the wind In his face, Kazan
was peering from the fringe of river
brush down upon the canoe on the
white strip of Band. When Sandy re
turned, after an hour of futile stalking,
two fresh tracks led straight down to
the canoe. He looked at them In amaze
ment and then a sinister grin wrinkled
his ugly face. He chuckled as he went
to his kit and dug out a small rubber
bag. From this he drew a tightly
corked bottle, filled with gelatin cap
sules. In each little capsule were Ave
grains of strychnine. There were dark
hints that once upon a time Sandy Mc-
Trlgger had tried one of these capsules
by dropping it in a cup of coffee and
giving it to a man, but the police bad
never proved It. He was expert In the
use of poison. Probably he had killed
a thousand foxes In his time, and he
chuckled again as he counted out a
dozen of the capsules and thought how
easy It would be to get this Inquisitive
pair of wolves. Two or three days be
fore he had killed a caribou, and each
of the capsules be now rolled up In a
little ball of deer fat, doing the work
with short sticks In place of his An
gers, so that there would be no man
smell clinging to the death-baits. Be
fore sundown Sandy set out at right
angles over the plain, planting the
baits. Most of them he hung to low
bushes. Others he dropped In worn
rabbit and caribou trails. Then be re
turned to the creek and cooked his sup
per.
The next morning be was op early,
and off to the poison baits. The first
bolt was nntouched. Tbe second was
as be had planted It Tbe third waa
gone. A thrill shot through Sandy as
be looked about him. Somewhere with
in a radios of two or three hundred
I yards he would find his game. Then
i his glance fell to the ground under
I the bush where he bad hung the poison
capsule and an oath broke from bla
Up*. The bait had not been eaten. The
1 caribou f«t l*/ JS»Ue*«d yo4a..£§
•V m ' V
| bush atwTstill ImFeJdirt In the" largest
11 portion of It was the little white cnp
sule —unbroken. It was Sandy's Unit
experience with a wild creature whose
Instincts were sharpened by blindness,
and he was puzsled. He had never
' known this to happen before. If a fox
or a wolf could be lured to the point of
touching a bait. It followed that the
| bait was eaten. Sandy went on to the
fourth and the fifth baits. They were
untouched. The sixth wns torn to
pieces, like the third. In this Instance
the capsule was broken and the white
powder scattered. Two more poison
baits Sandy found polled down In this
manner. He knew that Kazun and Gray
Wolf had done the work, for he found
the marks of their feet in a dozen dif
ferent places. Tli* accumulated bad
humor of weeks of futile labor found
vent In his disappointment and anger.
At last he had found something tangible
to curse. The failure of hla poison
baits he accepted as a sort of cHmax
to his general bad luck. Everything
was against him, be believed, and he
made up his mind to return to Red
Gold City. Early In the afternoon he
launched his canoe and drifted down
stream with the current. He was Von
tent to let the current do all of tha
work today, and he used Ills paddle
just enough to keep his slender craft
head on. He leaned back comfortably
and smoked his pipe, with the old rifle
between his knees. The wind was In
his face and he kept a sharp watch for
I' game.
It was late In the afternoon when
Kazan and Gray Wolf came out on a
sand bar live or six miles down-stream.
Kazan was lapping up the cool water
when Sandy drifted quietly around a
bend a hundred yards above them. If
the wind had been right, or If Hand;
had been using his paddle, Oray Wolf
would have detected danger. It wan
the metallic click-click of the old-fash
ioned lock of Sandy's rifle that awak
ened her to a sense of peril. Instantly
she was thrilled by the nearness of It.
Kazan heard the sound and stopped
drinking to face it In that moment
Sandy pressed the trigger. A belch of
smoke, a roar of gunpowder, and Ka
zan felt a red-hot stream of fire pass
with the swiftness of a lightning-flush
through his brain. He stumbled back,
his legs gave way under him, and he
crumpled down in a limp heup. Gray
Wolf darted like a streak off into the
bush. Blind, she had not seen Kazan
wilt down upon the white sand. Not
until she was a quarter of a mile away
from the terrifying thunder of the
white man's rifle did she stop and wait
for him.
Sandy McTrigger grounded his cnnoe
on the sand bar with an exultant yell.
"Got you, you old devil, didn't 17" h«
cried. Td 'a' got the other, too, If I'd
'a' had something besides this damned
old relic!"
He turned Kazan's head over with
the butt of his gun, and the leer of sat
isfaction in his face gave place to a
sudden look of amazement. For the
first time he saw the collur about Ka
zan's neck.
"My Oawd, It ain't a wolf," he
gasped.. "It's a dog. Sandy McTrigger
—a dog I"
CHAPTER XV.
. Sandy's Method.
McTrigger dropped on his knees In
the sand. The look of exultation WHS
gone from bis face. He twisted the
collar about the dog's limp neck until
he came to the worn plate, on which he
could make out the faintly engraved
letters K-a-z-a-n. He spelled the let
ters out one by one, and the look In his
face was of one who still disbelieved
what he had seen and heard.
"A dog I" he exclaimed again. "A
dog, Sandy McTrigger an' a—a
beauty I"
He rose to his feet and looked down
on his victim. A pool of blood lay In
the white ssnd at the end of Kazan's
nose. After a moment Sandy bent over
to see where bis bullet had struck. His
Inspection filled blm with a new and
greater interest. The heavy ball from
the muzzle-loader had struck Kazan
fairly on top of the head. It was a
glancing blow that bad not even broken
the skull, and like a flush Sandy un
derstood the quivering and twitching
of Kazan's shoulders and legs. He
had thought that they were the last
muscular throes of death. But Kazan
was not dying. He was only stunned,
and would be on hla feet again In a few
minutes.
Sandy was a connoisseur of dog»—of
do(t« that hud worn sledge traces. He
bad lived among them two-thlrda of bl* j
life. He could tell their age, their
value, and a part of their history at a I
glance. In tbe snow he could tell the
trail of a Mackenzie bound from that
of a Malemute, and the track of an
Eskimo dog from that of a Yukon |
husky. lie looked at Kazan'* feet.
They were wolf feet, and he chuckled.
Kazan wm part wild. He was big and
powerful, and Sandy thought of the I
coming winter, and of the high price* I
that dog* would bring at Ited Uold
City. He went to the canoe and re
turned with a roll of stout moo#e-hlde
bnblche. Then be aat down crow-leg
ged In front of Kazan and began mak
ing a muzzle. He did thla by plaiting
bablcbe thongs In the name manner
that one does in making a web of a 1
anow-aboe. In ten minute* be had the,
muzzle over Kazan'a no*e and font en ed
securely about bis neck: To the dog's
collar he then fastened a ten-foot rope
of bablche. After that be aat back
and waited for Kazan to come to life.
When Kazan first lifted bis bead be
could not see. There was a red film
before his eye*. But thla passed away
swiftly and be snw tbe man, Hla first |
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1917
InsQnct was"to rise fo' his "feet. Three
times he felt back before be could
stand up. Sandy was squatted six feet
from blm, holding the end of the ba
blche, and grinning, Kazan's fangs I
gleamed back. He growled, and the , I
crest along his spine rose menacingly. | -
Sandy jumped to his feet. .1
"Guess I know what you're flggerlng [
on," he said. "I've had your kind be
fore. The d— wolves have turned j 1
you bad, an' youll need a whole lot ol , 1
club before you're right again. Now, 1
look here."
Sandy had taken the precaution of
bringing a thick club along with the
bablche. He picked It up from where
he had dropped It In the sand. Kazan's
strength had fairly returned to him
now. He was no longer dizzy. The
mist had cleared away from his eyes.
Before him he saw once more his old
enemy, man—man and the club. All of
the wild ferocity of his nature wns
roused In an Instant. Without reason
ing he knew that Gray Wolf was gone,
and that this man was accountable for
her going. He knew that this man
had also brought him his own hurt, and
what he ascribed to the man he also
attributed to the club. In his newer
undertaking of things, born of freedom
and Gray Wolf, man and club were one
and Inseparable. With a snarl he
leaped at Sundy. The man was not ex
pecting a direct assault, and before he
could raise his club or spring aside
Kazan had landed full on his chest.
The muzzle about Kazan's Jaws saved
him. Fangs that would huve torn his
throat open snapped harmlessly. Un
der the weight of the dog's body ho
fell back, us If struck down by a
catapult
As quick as a cat he was on his feet
again, with the end of the bablche
twisted several times about his hand.
Kazan leaped again, and tkls time he
was met by a furious swing of the club.
It smashed against his shoulder, and
sent him down In the sand. Before he
could recover Sandy was upon him,
with all the fury of a man gone mad.
He shortened the bablche by twisting It
again and again about his hand, and
the club rose and fell with the skill and
strength of one long accustomed to Its
use. Tfie first blows served only to
add to Kazan's hutred of man, and the
ferocity and fearlessness of his attacks.
Again and again he leaped In, and each
time the club fell upon him with a
force that threatened to break his
bones. There was a tense hard look
about Sandy's cruel mouth. He had
never known a dog like this before, and
he wns a bit nervous, even with Kazan
muzzled. Three times Kazan's fangs
would have sunk deep In his flesh had
it not been for the bablche. And If the
thongs about his jaws should slip, or
break—.
Sandy followed up the thought with
a .smashing blow that landed on Ka
xau's head, and once more the old bat
tler fell limp upon the sand. McTrtt
ger's breath was coming In quick gnsps.
He was almost winded. Not until the
club slipped from his hand did he
realize how desperate the fight had
been. Before Kazan recovered from
the blow that had stunned him'Sundy
examined the muzzle and strengthened
It by adding another bablche thong.
Then he dragged Kazan to a log that
high water had thrown up on the
shore a few yards away and made the
end of the bnblche rope fast to a dead
snag. After that he pulled his canoe
higher up on the sand, and began to
prepare camp for the night.
For Some minutes after Kazan's
stanned senses liad become normal he
lay motionless, watching h'undy Me-
Strengthened It by Adding Another
Bablche Thong.
Trigger. Every bone In hi* body gave
him pain. Ilia Jawa were *ore and
bleeding. Hla upper Up wa* *ma*hed
where the club had fallen. One eye
wa* almost clo*ed. Several tlmee
Sandy came near, much plea*ed at
what he regarded a* the gin id result*
of tbe beating. Each time he brought
the club. The third time he prodded
Kazan with It, and the dog anarled and
annpped aavagely at the end of It.
That waa what Sandy wanted—lt wa*
an old trick of tlie dog-*laver. Instant
ly he wa* u*lng the club again, until
with a whining cry Kazan *lunk under
the protection of the *nag to which ho
wa* fastened. He could scarcely drag
himself. Hl* right forepnw wa*
smashed, lil* hind-quarter* sank un
der blm. For a time after thla second
beating be could not have escaped had
he been free.
Sandy waa In unusually good humor.
"I'll take the devil out of you all
right," be told Kazan for the twentieth
time. "There'* nothln' like beatln'a to
make dogs an' wlmmln live up to the
mark. A month from now you'll be
worth two hundred dollar* or I'll *kln
you alive I"
Three or four time* before dusk
Sandy worked to rouse Kazan's ani
mosity. Hut there was no longer any
de*!re left In Kazan to light. Hl* two
terrific beating*, and the crushing blow
of tbe ballet against his skull, had
made him alck. He lay with hi* head
between hi* forepaw*, hi* eye* cloned,
and did not aee McTrlgger. He paid
no attention to tbe meat that wa*
thrown under hia nose. He did not
know when tbe last of the *uu sank
behind the western" forests, or when
the darkness came. But at last some
thing roused him from his stupor. To
his dazed and sickened brain it came
like a call from out of the far past, and
he raised his bend and listened. Out
on the sand McTrlgger had built a Orel
.and the man stood in the red glow of
It now, facing the dark shadows be
yond the shoreline. He, too, was lis
tening. What had roused Kazan came
again now—the lost mourning cry of
Gray Wolf far out on the plain.
With a whine Kazan was on his feet,
tugging at the bablche. Sandy snatched
up hla club, and leaped toward him.
"Down, you brute!" he commanded.
In the firelight the club rose and fell
with ferocious quickness. When Mc-
Trlgger returned to the flro he was
breathing hard again. He tossed his
club beside the blankets he had spread
out for a bed. It waa a dtfferent look
ing club now. It was covered with
blood and hair.
"Guess that'll take the spirit out of
him," he chuckled. "It'll do that—or
kill 'lm 1"
Several times that night Kazan heard
Gray Wolfs call. He whined aoftly in
response, fearing the club. He watched
the fire until the last embers of it died
out, and then cautiously dragged'him
self from under the snag. Two or
three times he tried to stand on his
feet, but fell back each time. His legs
were not broken, but the pain of stand
ing on them wns excruciating. He was
hot and feverish. All that night he had
craved a drink of water. When Snndy
crawled out from between his blankets
In the enrly down he gave htm both
meat itnd water. Kazan drank the wa
ter, but would not touch the meat.
Sundy regarded the change In him with
satisfaction. By the time the sun was
up he had finished his breakfast and
was ready to leave. lie approached
"Kazan fearlessly!now, without the club.
Untying the bablche he dragged the
dog to the canoe. Kazun slunk In the
sand while Ills enptor fastened the end
of the hide rope to the stern of the
canoe. Sandy grinned. What wns
about to haiipen would be fun for him.
In the Yukon he had lenrned how to
take the spirit out of dogs.
He pushed oft, bow foremost. Brac
ing himself with his paddle he then be
gan to pull Kazan toward the water. In
• few momenta Kazan stood with hi*
forefeet planted In the damp sand at
the edge of the stream. For a brief In
terval Sandy allowed the bablche *o
fall slack. Then with a sudden power
ful pull he Jerked Kazan out Into the
water. Instantly ho sent the canoe Into
midstream, swung tt quickly down with
the current, and began to paddle
enough to keep the bablche taut about
his victim's neck. In spite of his sick
ness and Injuries Kazan was now com
pelled to swlfoiyto keep his hood above
water. In the wash of the cunoe, and
with Sandy's strokes growing steadily
stronger, his position became each mo
ment one of Increasing torture. At
times bis shaggy head was pulled com
pletely iftider wuter. At others Hundy
would wait until ho had drifted along
side, and then thrust him under with
the end of his paddle. He grew weaker.
At the end of a half mile he was
drowning. Not until then did Sandy
pull him alongside and drug hlm into
the canoe. The dog fell limp and gasp
ing In the bottom. Itrutal though
Sandy's methods had been, they had
worked his purpose. In Kazan there
was no longer a desire to light. He no
longer struggled for freedom. He knew
that this man was his master, and for
the time his spirit was gone. All he
desired now was to be allowed to lie In
the bottom of the canoe, out of reach
of the club, and safe from tho water.
Tho club lay between him and the
man. Tho end of It wus within a foot
or two of hts nose, and what he
smelled wus his own blood.
For Ave days and Ave nights the
Journey down-stream continued, and
McTrlgger's process of civilizing Kazan
was continued In three moro boatings
with tho club, and another resort to the
water torture. On the morning of the
sixth day they reached Red Gold City,
and McTrlgger put up his tent close to
tho river. Botnewhere he obtained a
chain for Kazan, and after fastening
tho dog securely back of the tent he
cut off the blbache muzzle.
"Yon can't put no meat In a muzzle,"
he told his prisoner. "An' I want you
to git strong—an' fierce as hell. I've
got un Idee. It's an Idee you can lick
your weight In wildcats. We'll pull off
a stunt pretty soon that'll fill our
pockets with dust. I've done It afore,
and we can do It here. Wolf an' dog—
s'elp me Satan but It'll be a drawln'
cardJ"
Twice a day after (hi* ho brought
fresh raw meal to Kazan. Quickly Ka
zan'* spirit and courage returned to
him. The Horene** left hi* lluih*. lil*
battered Jaws healed. And after the
fourth day each time that Handy came
with meat he greeted hltn with the
challenge of hi* Hnarllng fang*. Mc-
Trlgger did not lieut him now. lie
gave film no o*ll, no tallow and meal—
nothing but raw meat. lie traveled
five mile* up the river to bring In the
fresh entrall of a caribou that bad been
killed. One day Handy brought an
other man with him and when the
Mtranger came a *tep too near Kazan
made a Rudden *wlft lurgo at him. The
mar i Jumped back with a mart led oath.
_ "Hell do," he growled. "lie'* light
er by ten or fifteen pound* than the
I>ane, but he'a got the teeth, an' th'
qulcknes*, an' he'll give a good abow
before he goea under."
"11l make you a bet of twenty-flve
per cent of my *hare that he don't go
tinder," offered Sandy.
"Done!" aald the other. "How long
before he'll be ready 7"
Handy thought • moment
"Another week," he aald. "He won't
have his weight before then. A week
from todoy, we'll say. Next Tuesday
night Doe* that suit you, Darker?"
Marker nodded.
"Next Tuesday night," he agreed.
Theft he added, "IH make It a half of
my chare that tbe Dane kill* your wolf
dog." . *
Sandy took a long look at Kazan.
"I'll Just take you on that," he said.
Then, as he shook Harker's hand, "I
don't believe there'a a dog between
here and the Yukon that can kill the
wolf I" 1
CHAKTER XVI.
Professor McQIII.
Red Gold City waa ripe for a night
of relaxation. There had been some
gambling, a few tights and enough
liquor to create excitement now and
then, hut the presence of the mounted
police had served to keep things un
usuully-.tume compared with events a
few hundred miles fnrther north, In the
Dawson country. The entertulnment
proposed by Handy McTrlgger and Jun
Murker met with excited favor. The
news spread for twenty miles about
Ited Gold City and there bud never
been greater excitement in the town
than on the afternoon and night of the
big fight. This was largely because
Kazun and the huge Dano had been
placed on exhibition, each dog In a
specially made cage of his own, and a
fever of hettlug began. Three hundred
men, each of whom wus paying five
dollars to see the battle, viewed the
gladiators through the bars of their
cages. Hnrker's dog wus a combina
tion of Great Dane and mastiff, born In
the north, and bred to the traces, net
ting favored him by the odds of two to
one. Occuslonully It ran three to one.
At. these odds there wns plenty of Ka
zan money. Those who were risking
their money on him were the older
wilderness men—men who had spent
their lives among dogs, und who knew
what the red light In Kazan's eyes
meant. An old Kootenuy miner s|>oke
low In another's ear:
"I'd bet on 'ltn even. I'd give odds
if I hud to. He'll fight all around the
Dane. The Dune won't huve no
method."
"But he's got the weight," said the
other dn'dously. "Look ut his Jaws,
an' ills shoulders— *
"An' his big feet, an' his soft throat.
an' tho clumsy thickness of his holly,"
Interrupted the Kootenuy man. "For
heaven's suke, mini ,tuko my word for
It, un' don't put your money on the
Dane t"
Others thrust themselves between
them. At flrst Kazan hud snarled at
•11 these faces nhout hliii. liut now
he lny buck against tho boarded side
of the cngo and eyed them sullenly
from between his forepaws.
The fight was to be pulled off In ITar
ker'n place, a combination of saloon
and cafe. The benches and tables had
been cleared out and In the center of
the one big room a cage ten feet square
rested on o platform three and a half
feet from the floor. Seats for the three
hundred spectators were drawn closely
around this. Suspended Just above the
open top of the cage were two big oil
lariiHH with glass reflectors.
It was eight o'clock when Harker,
McTrlgger and two other men bore Ka
zan to the arena by moans of the wood
en bars that projected from the bottom
of his cage. The big Dane was already
In the lighting cage. He stood blinking
hla eyes In the brilliant light of the
reflecting lumps. Me pricked up his
ears when he saw Kazan. Kazan did
not show his fangs. Neither revealed
the expected animosity. It wus the first
they had seen of each other, and a mur
mur of disappointment swept the ranks
of the three hundred men. The Dane
remained lis motionless us a rock when
Ktizun was prodded from his own cage
Into ttie lighting cage, lie did not leup
or suarl. lie regurded Kazan with u
dubious questioning pulse to his splen
did heud, mid then looked again to the
expectant und excited faces of the wait
ing men. For a few moments Kazan
stood stiff legged, facing tho Dane.
Then his shoulders dropped, and he,
too, coolly fuesd the crowd that had ex
pected a light to the death, A laugh of
derision swept through tho closely seat
ed rows. Catcalls, Jeering, taunts flung
ut McTrlgger and Darker, and angry
voices demanding their money back
mingled with a tumult of growing dis
content. Kandy's fuce wus red with
mortification mid rage. The lilue veins
In Marker's forehead had swollen twice
their norfiinl size. He shook his fist In
the face of the crowd, and shouted:
"Walt! (Jive 'em u chance, you
fools!" •
At his words every voice was stilled.
Kazan had turned. lie was facing tho
Dane. The Dane had turned his eye*
to Kazan. Cautiously, prepare*) for a
Inline or a sidestep, Kazan advanced
a little. Tho I>aiio's shoulders bristled.
He, too, advanced upon Kazan. Four
feet apart they stood rigid. One could
have heard a whisper In the room now.
Handy and Harker, standing closo to
the cage, scarcely breathed. Splendid
In every limit and muscle, warriors of
u hundred fights, and fearless to tho
polut of death, the two half-wolf vic
tims of man stood facing each other.
None could see the questioning look In
their brute eyes. None knew that In
this thrilling moment the uuseen hand
of the wonderful Spirit Ood of the wil
derness hovered between them, and
that one of Its miracles was descending
upon them. It was understanding.
Meeting In the open—rivals In the
trace*—they would have been rolling
In the throes of terrific battle. Hut here
came that mute appeal of brotherhood.
In the final moment, when only a step
separated them, and when men ex
pected to s«-e tho first mad lunge, the
splendid lame slowly raised Iris head
and looked over Kazan's hack through
tho glare of tlio lights. Harker trem
bled, and under his hreath he cursed.
Tho Dane's throat was open to Kazan.
Itut between the beiiMs had passed the
voiceless pledge of peace. Kazan did
not leap, lie turned. And shoulder to
shoulder—splendid In their contempt of
man—they atood and looked through
the bars of their prison Into the one of
human face*.
A roar burnt from the crowd—a roar
of anger, of demand, of threat. In hlx
rage llnrki-r drew u revolver and
leveled it at the L»ane. Aboe the tu
mult of the crowd a alngle voice
•topped him.
"Hold!" It demanded. "Hold—ln the
name of the law I"
Fur a moment there van alienee.
Every face turned In the direction of
the voice. Two men atood on chair*
behind the laat row. One waa Hergeunt
llroknw of the Itoyal Northwest
Mounted. It waa he who had apoken.
lie waa holding up a hand, command
ing alienee and attention. On the chair
bealde hlrn atood another man. lie was
thin, with drooping •boulder*, and a
pale amooth face—a little man, whose
phyalqtie and hollow cheeka (old noth-
foil y?af& tie had spent close
along the row edge of the Arctic. Ii
was he who spoke now, while the ser
geant held up his hand. His voice wa.
low and quiet:
"I'll give the owners five hundrec
dollars to r those dogs," he said.
Every man la the room heard the of
fer. Barker looked atSandy. For ai
Instant their heads were close together.
"They won't light, and they'll make
good team-mates," the little man went
on. "I'll give the owners five hundred
dollars."
llarker raised a hand.
"Make It six," he said. *!Make It six
and they're yours."
The little man hesitated. Then he
nodded.
"I'll give you six hundred," he
agreed.
Murmurs of discontent rose through
out the crowd, llarker climbed to the
edge of the platform.
"We ain't to blame because the;
wouldn't flght," he shouted, "but 1)
there's any of you small enough tc
want your money back you can git It
as you go out. The dogs laid down oi
us, that's all. We ain't to blame."
The Utile man was edging his wo
between the chairs, accompanied b
the sergeant of police. With his pa
face close to the sapling bars of th
cage he looked at Kazan and the bit
Dane.
"I guess we'll be good friends," hi
said, and he spoke so low that only th*
dogs heard his voice. "It's a big price,
but we'll charge It to the Smithsonian,
lads. I'm going to need a couple of
four-footed friends of your moral cali
ber."
And no one knew why Kazan and the
Dane drew nearer to the little sclen
tlst's side of the cage an he pulled out
a big roll of bills and counted out six
hundred dollars for Marker and Handy
MeTrlgger.
TO BE CONTINUED.
HARRISON IS AGAIN HONORED
RE-ELECTED COMMANDER-IN
CHIEF OF CONFEDERATE VET
ERANB BY ACCLAMATION.
Qreat Crowd of Vetarans Pass Up
Pennsylvania Avenut to Strains of
"Dixie" While President Wilson and
Vice-President Marshall Look On.
Washington.—The Confederal* vet
erans re-elected Oen. George P. Har
rison. of Opellka, Ala., commander-in
chief, and selected Tulsa, Okla., as the
place for the 1818 reunion, after
marching up Pennsylvania avenue to
the strains of "Dlile" and passing In
review before President Wilson and
Vice President Marshall. Escorted
by union soldiers, and followed by
United States regulars, national
guardsmen, cadets from the Virginia
Military Institute and* the Washington
high school, the hosts of the south
paraded In triumph through the streets
of the capital to the accompanying
cheers of the thousands'of spectators
who occupied all places of vantage
along the line of march.
Despite the tremendous crowd
which viewed the parade and th*
large number of veterans In line, th*
only accident raported was that re
ceived by Oen. James Dlnklns, of
Ixralslana, In falling from his horse.
He suffered a wrenched foot.
Oaneral Hurrlson wan placed in
nomination for another term by Judge
John T. Ooolrlck, of Fredericksburg
and re-elected by acclamation.
Own. Julian 8. Carr, of North Caro
lina, wan choaen lieutenant general
commanding the department of the
Army of Northern Virginia over Gen.
J. Thompson Drown, of Virginia. In
moving to make General Carr'a elec
tion unanimous, General Ilrown de
clared that his cup of Joy waa full.
"For on three occaalona have I rld
ren up Pennsylvania avenue, twice an
a prisoner, and today at the head of
the Army of Northern Virginia."
U watt authoritatively learned that
the State Firman's Association will
hold their annual meeting at Mora
head City on July 24, 26 and 26th. Tha
association wan to have met with
Aahevllle and also bold a tournament
but on account of the war that meet
lug waa poatpoaed null) 1911 and this
year'a business session will be held
a* Morehead (.'My, tasting for thraa
days.
To bring the freight claim depart
ment of the Southern Railway System
mora closely In tou4i with the shlp
plng public bo tha and that quicker ac
tion may be had hi tha adjustment of
freight claims. a central freight claim
office will be established al ("halt*.
Itooga, Tenn., effective Juno 1, with
branch freight claim offices at Char
lotte, N. C, Atlanta, Ga., Now Or
laarm, I-a , and Louisville, Ky
Citizens of WlhKm met recently
and organized what Is to bo known aa
"Wilson Community Store." Ovar
$2,000 In stock wax MUWrlbed.
Kverett Cerrlgan, 14 yearold son of
Bam A, Carrlgan, #f Mill Itridgc, Ro
wan county, la dead as a result of In
juries received when a tree fell on
hltn.
Vou Know What ten Are Taking
When you take Grove'a Taatclea)
Chill Tonic because the formula it
plainly printed on every bottle
nhowinff that it ii Iron and Qui
nine in a taateicaa form. No
cure, no pay—soc. adv
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NO. 18
GRAHAM CHLihCH^IHMfeCTOH
Graham Baptist Church—Bev. W.
«. Davis, Pastor. '
Preaching first and third
Sunday* at *I.OO a. m. and 7.00 p.
a.
Sunday School every Sunday at
i.ib a. m. A. P. Williams Suipt.
Prayer meeting every Tuesday at
■iO p. m.
Uraham Christian Church—N. Main
Street—Bev. J. P. Trait*
Preaching services every Sec
ad and Fourth Sundays, at 11.00
m.
Sunday School every Sunday at
».00 a. m.—E. L. Henderson, Super
intendent.
New Providence Christian Church
—North Main Street, near Depot—
lev, J. Q. Truitt, Pastor. Preach
ing every Second and Fourth Sun
lay night* at 8.00 o'clock.
Sunday School every Sunday at
M 6 a. m.—J. A. Bayuff, Superin
tendent.
Christian Endeavor Prayer Meet
ing every Thursday night at 7.45.
o'clock.
Friends—North of Graham Pub
lic School— Rev. Fleming Martin,
Pastor.
Preaching Ist, 2nd and 3rd Sun
day a.
.Sunday School every Sunday at
10.00 a. m.—James Crisco, Superin
tendent.
Methodist Episcopal south—cor.
Main and MapYe St„ H. E. My ere
Pastor.
Preaching every Sunday at 11 00
a. m. and at 7.30 p. m.
Sunday School every Sunday at
M 5 a. m.—W. B. Green, Supt.
M. P. Church—N. Main Street,
Rev. K. 8. Troxler, Pastor.
Preaching first and third Sun-
V" 11 "■ m - and 8 p. m.
Sunday School every Sunday at
9.45 a. m.—J. It. Amide, Supt.
Presbyterian—Wst Elm Street—
Rev. T. M. McConnell, pastor*
Sunday School every Sunday at
1.46 a. m.—Lynn B. Williamson, Su
perintendent.
r I Y.r ,b /. terlan (Travora Chapel)-
I. W. Clegg, pastor.
Preaching every Second and
Fourth Sundays at 7.30 p. m.
Bunday School every dunday af
3.30 p. m.—J. Harvey White. Su
perintendent.
Onolda School every
Sunday at 2.30 p. m.—J. V. Porne
roy, Superintendent
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Civil Engineer.
GRAHAM, N. C.
National Bank ol Alamance BT*' a
BURLINGTON, N. C,
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Attorneyat-Law
GRAHAM. N. C.
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BUKL.INGTON, N. C,
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BURLINQTON, N C,
Stomach and Nervous diseases a
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isbury, who retired to the farm a
few years ago, died Thursday night,
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