famine pack amongst his wild brethren as it was he ran the young wolf down killed and ate him fortune seemed to favor him always when hardest pressed for food he found something to kill again when he was weak it was his luck that none of the larger animals chanced upon him thus he was strong from the two days eating a had afforded him when the hungry wolf pack ran full upon him it was a long cruel chase but he was better nourished than they and in the end them and not only did he them but widely back on his track he gathered in one of his exhausted after that he left that part of the country and over t o th e valley wherein had b bom here in the old he encountered j up to her old tricks she too had fled the fires of the gods and gone back to her old refuge to give birth to her young of this litter but one remained alive when white came upon the scene and this one was not destined to live long young life had little chance in such a famine s greeting of her grown son was anything but affectionate but white did not mind he had his mother so he turned tail and trotted on up the stream at the forks he took the turning to the left where he found the of the whom his mother and he white pang had fought long before here in the abandoned he settled down and rested for a day during the early summer in the last days of the famine he me t lip lip who had likewise taken to the where he had out a miserable existence white came upon him unexpectedly trotting in opposite directions along the base of a high bluff they rounded a corner of rock and found themselves face to face they paused with instant alarm and looked at each other suspiciously white was in splendid condition his hunting had been good and for a week he had eaten his fill he was even from his latest kill but in the moment he looked at lip lip his hair rose on end all along his back it was an involuntary on his part the physical state that in the past had always accompanied the mental state produced in him by lip lip s and persecution as in the past he had and at sight of lip lip so now and he and he did not waste any time the thing was done thoroughly and with despatch lip lip to back away but white struck him hard shoulder to shoulder lip lip was and rolled upon his back white s teeth drove into the throat there was a death struggle during which white walked around stiff legged and observant then he resumed his course and trotted on along the base of the bluff the famine a one day not long after he came to the edge of the crest where a narrow stretch of open land to the he had been over this ground before when it was bare but now a village it still hidden amongst the trees he caused to study the situation sights and sounds ind were familiar to him it was the old changed to a new place but sights and sounds and were different from those he had last had when le fled away from it there was no nor contented sounds saluted his ear and when le heard the angry voice of a woman he knew it to oe the anger that proceeds from a full stomach and was a smell in the air of fish there was food famine was gone he came put boldly from the forest and trotted into camp straight to gray s gray was not there but loo him with glad cries and the whole of a caught fish and he lay down to wait gray s coming f chapter i the enemy of his kind had there been in white s nature any possibility no matter how remote of his ever coming to with his kind such possibility was destroyed when he was made leader of the for now hate hated him for the extra meat bestowed upon him by hated him for all the real and fancied he received hated him for that he fled always at the head of the team his waving brush of a tail and his perpetually retreating hind quarters forever their eyes and white just as bitterly hated them back being leader was anything but gratifying to him to be compelled to run away before the yelling pack every dog of which for three years he had and mastered was almost more than he could endure but endure it he must or perish and the life that was in him had no desire to perish the moment gave his order for the st t that moment the whole team with eager savage cries sprang forward at white white there was no defence for him if he turned upon them would throw the lash of the whip into his face only remained to him to run away he could not encounter that howling with his tail and hind quarters these were scarcely fit weapons with which to meet the many merciless so run away he did his own nature and pride with every leap he made and leaping all day long one cannot the of one s nature without having that nature upon itself such a is like that of a hair made to grow out from the body turning upon the direction of its growth and growing into the body � a thing of hurt and so with white every urge of his being impelled him to spring upon the pack that cried at his heels but it was the will of the gods that this should not be and behind the 