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f THE REVIEW HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLINA H wwwwwe iummiiiiiiiiwmwinwiiHii f i I ! The Voice of the Pack I By EDISON MARSHALL m i I i " - I l j; g g j j I CHAPTER II Continued. "Well rest now," Dan told them at ten o'clock. "The sun is warm enough so that we won't need much of a fire. And we'll try to get five hours' sleep." "Top long, if we're going to make it ut," Lennox objected. "That leaves a workday of nineteen hours" Dan persisted. "Not any too little. Five hours it will be." He found where the snow had drift ed against a great, dead log, leaving the white covering only a foot in depth on the lee side. He began to scrape the snow away, then hacked at the log with his ax until he had pro cured a piece of comparatively dry wood from its center. They all stood breathless while he lighted the little pile of kindling and heaped it with green wood the only wood procur able. But it didn't bUrn freely. It smoked fitfully, threatening to die out, and emitting very little heat. But they didn't particularly care. The sun was warm above, as always in the mountain winters of southern Oregon. Snowbird and Dan cleared spaces beside the fire and slept. Len nox, who had rested on the journey, lay on his sled and with his uninjured arm tried to hack enough wood from the saplings that Dan had cut to keep the fire burning. At three they got up, still tired and aching in their bones from exposure. Twenty-four hours had passed sine they had tasted food, and their upe plenished systems complained. TOere is no better engine In the wide world than the human body. It will stand more neglect and abuse than the finest steel motors ever made by the hands of craftsmen. A man may fast many days if he lies quietly in one place and keeps warm. But fasting is a deadly proposition while pulling sledges over the snow. Dan was less hopeful now. His face told what his words did not. The lines cleft deeper about his lips and eyes; and Snowbird's heart ached when he tried to encourage her with a smile. It was a wan, strange smile that couldn't quite hide the first sick ness of despair. The shadows quickly lengthened simply leaping over the snow from the last-falling sun. The twilight deep ened, the snow turned gray, and then, In a vague way, the Journey began to partake of a quality of unreality. It "was not that the cold and the snow and their hunger were not entirely real, or that the wilderness was no longer naked to their eyes. It was Just (hat their whole effort seemed like some dreadful, unburdened journey in s dream a stumbling advance under difficulties too many and real to be true. The first sign was the far-off cry of the wolf pack. It was very faint, simply a stir In the eardrums, yet It was entirely clear. That clear, cold mountain air was a perfect telephone system, conveying a message distinct ly, no matter how faintly. There, were no tall buildings or cities to dis turb the ether waves. And all three of them knew at the samel instant It was not exactly the cry they had heard before. They couldn't have told just why, even if they had wished to talk about it In some dim way, It had lost the strange quality of despair it had held before. It was as if the pack were running with renewed life, that each wolf was calling to another with a dreadful sort of exultation. It was an excited cry, too not the .long, sad song they had learned to listen for. It sounled immediately behind them. They couldn't help but listen. No human ears could have shut out the sound. But none of them pretended that they had heard. And this was the worst sign of all. Each one o:! the three was hoping against hope in his very heart ; and at the same time., hop ing that the other di$ not understand. For a long time, as the darkness deepened about them, the forests were still. Perhaps, Dan thought, he had teen mistaken after all. His shoulders straightened. Then the chorus blared again. The man looked back at the girl, smiling into her eyes. Lennox lay as if asleep, the lines of his dark face curious:? pronounced. And the girl, because ?he was of the mountains, body and aoul, answered Dan's smile. Then they knew that all of them knew the truth. Nat even an inexperienced ear could hav any delusions about the pack song nev. it was that old est o wilderness songs, the hunting cry that frenziec song of , blood-lust that the wolf pak utters when It is running on the 'rail of grme. It had found the track of living flesh at last. AW1C!) us stopping, or trying iu uimD a tree, uan tola them sim- ply. "In the first place, Lennox can't do it. In the second, we've got to take a chance for cold and hunger can get up a tree where the wolf pack can't." He sp'oke wholly without emotion. Once more he tightened the traces of the sled. "I've heard that sometimes the pack will chase a man for days without at tacking,' Lennox told them. "It all' depeads in how long they've gone without food. Keep on and try to for get 'em. Maybe we can keep 'em bluffed." But 4U the hours passed, it became increasingly difficult to forget the wolf pack. It was only a matter f turning the head and peering for an instant into the shadows to catch a glimpse of one of the creatures. Their usual fear of men, always their first emo tion, had given way wholly to a hunt ing cunning; an effort to procure their game without too great risk of their own lives. In the desperation of their hunger they could not remember such things as the fear of men. They spread out farther, and at last Dan looked up to find one of the gray beasts waiting, like a shadow himself, in the shadow of a tree not one hun dred feet from the sled. Snowbird whipped out her pistol. "Don't dare!" Dan's voice cracked out to her. He didn't speak loudly ; yet the words came so sharp and com manding, so like pistol fire itself, that they penetrated into her consciousness and choked back the nervous reflexes that in an instant might have lost them one of their three precious shells. She caught herself with a sob. Dan shouted at the wolf, and it melted into the shadows. "You won't do it again, Snowbird?" he asked her very humbly. But his meaning was clear. He was not as skilled with a pistol as she ; but if her nerves were breaking, the gun must be taken from her hands. The three shells must be saved to the moment of utmost need. "No," she told him, looking straight into Ids eyes. "I won't do It again." He believed her. He knew that she spoke the truth. He met her eyes with a half smile, Ten, wholly without warning, Fate played its last trump. Again the wilderness reminded them of its might, and their brave spirits were almost broken by the utter re morselessness of the blow. The girl went on her face with a crack of wood. "Maybe. We Can Keep Them Bluffed." Her snow shoe hacLbeen cracked by her fall of the day before, when run ning to the fire, and whether she struck some other obstruction in the snow, or whether the cracked wood had simply given way under her weight, mattered not even enough for them to investigate. As in all great disasters, only the result remained.' The result in this case was that her snotteboe, without which she could not walk at all in the snow, was irrepara bly broken. "Fate has stacked the cards against us," Lennox told them, after the first moment's horror from the broken snowshoe. t But no one answered him. The girl, white-faced' kept her wide eyes on Dan. He seemed to be peering into the shadows beside the trail, as if he were watching for the gray forms that now and then glided from tree to tree. In reality, he was not looking for wolves. He was gazing down into his own soul, measuring his own spirit for the trial that lay before him. The girl, unable to sttp with the broken snowshoe, rested her weight on one foot and hobbled like a bird with broken wings across to him. No sigh? of all this terrible journey had been more dreadful in her father's eyes than this. It seemed to split open the strong heart of the man. She Itouched her hand to his arm. "I'm sorry, Dan," she told him. "You tried so hard " Just one little sound broke from his throat a strange, deep gasp that could not be suppressed. Then he caught her hand in his and kissed it again and again. "Do you think I care about that?" he masked her. "I only wish I could have done more and what I have done doesn't count. Jnsr as in my fight with Cranston, nothing Copyright, 1920, by Little. Brown & Co. counts because I didn't win. It's jusi fat?. Snowbird. It's no one's fault, but maybe, in this world, nothing is ever anyone's fault." For in the twilight of those winter woods, in the shadow of death itself, perhaps he was catering glimmerings of eternal truths that are hidden from all but the most far-see ing eyes. "And this is the end?" she asked him. She spoke very bravely? "No!" His hand tightened on hers. "No, so long as an ounce of strength remains. To fight never to give up may God give me spirit for it till I die." And this was no .tle prayer. His eyes raised to the starry sky as he spoke. "But, son," Lennox asked him sat- er quietly, "what can you do? The wolves aren't going to wait a great deal longer, and we can't go onJZ "There's one thing more ohe more trial to make," Dan .answered. "I thought about it at first, but it was too long a chance to try if there was any p other way. And I suppose you thought of it too." "Overtaking Cranston?" Of course. And it sounds like a crazy dream. But listen, both of you. If we have got to die, up here in the snow and it looks like we had what is the thing you want done worst be fore we go?" Lennox's hands clasped, and he leaned forward on the sled. "Pay Cranston !" he said. "Yes!" Dan's voice rang. "Crans ton's never going to be paid unless we do it.. There will be no signs of in- cenaiarism at tne nouse. and no proofs. They'll find our bodies in the snow, and we'll just be a mysterVf with no one made to pay. The evi dence in my pocket will be taken by Cranston, some time this winter. If I don't make him pay, he never will pay. And that's one reason why I'm going to try to carry out this plan Ive got. "The second reason is that It's the one hope we have left. 1 take it that none ofus are deceived on that point. And no man can die tamely if he is a man while there's a chance. I mean a young man, like me not oneNeho Is old and tired. It sounds perfectly silly to talk about finding Cranston's win ter quarters, and then, with my bare hands, conquering him, taking his food and his blankets and his snowshoes and his rifle, to fight away these wolves, and bringing 'em back here." "You wouldn't be barehanded," the girl reminded him. "You could have the pistol." He didn't even 'seem to hear her. "I've been thinking about it. It's a long, long chance much worse than the chance we had of getting out by straight walking. I think we could have made it, if the wolves had kept off and the snowshoe hadn't broken. It would have nearly killed us, but I believe we could have got out. That's why I didn't try this other way first A man with his bare hands hasn't much of a chance against Another with a rifle, and I don't want you to be too hopeful. And of course, the hardest problem is finding his camp. "But I do feel sure of one thing, that he is back to his old trapping ine on the North Fork somewhere south of here and his camp is somewhere on the river. I think he would have gone there so that he could cut off any attempt I might make to get through ytth those letters. My plan is to start back at an angle that will carry me i between the North Fork and our old j house. Somewhere in there I'll find his tracks, the tracks he made when he first came over to burn up the house. I suppose he was careful U mix 'em up after once he arrived here, but the first part of the wayie likely walked straight toward the house from his camp. Somewhere, if go that way, I'll cross his trail with in 10 miles at least. Then I'll back track him to his camp." "And never come back!" the girl cried. "Maybe not. But at least every thing that can be done will be done. Nothing will be left. No regrets. W will have made the last trial. 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