on you well it s you that ll have to come inside white walked stiff legged up the steps and across the porch with tail rigidly erect keeping his eyes on dick to guard against a flank attack and at the same time prepared for whatever fierce of the unknown that might out upon him from the interior of the house but no thing of fear out and when he had gained the inside he carefully around looking for it and finding it not then he lay down with a contented at the master s feet observing all that went on ever ready to spring to his feet and fight for life with the terrors he felt must under the trap roof of the dwelling chapter iii the god s domain not only was white by nature but he had travelled much and knew the meaning and necessity of in vista which was the name of judge scott s place white quickly began to make himself at home he had no further serious trouble with the dogs they knew more about the ways of the gods than did he and in their eyes he had qualified when he accompanied the gods inside the house wolf that he was and as it was the gods had his presence and they the dogs of the gods could only recognize this sanction dick had to go through a few stiff at first after which he calmly accepted white as an addition to the premises had dick had his way they would have been good friends but white was averse to friendship all he asked of other dogs was to be let alone his whole life he had kept aloof from his kind and he still desired to keep aloof dick s white so he dick away in the north he had learned the lesson that he must let the master s alone and he did not forget that lesson now but he insisted on his own privacy and self and so thoroughly ignored dick that that good r creature finally gave him up and scarcely took as much interest in him as in the post near the stable not so with while she accepted him i because it was the of the gods that was no reason that she should leave him in peace woven into her being was the memory of countless crimes he and his had against her not in a day nor a generation were the to be forgotten all this was a spur to her her to she could not fly in the face of the gods who permitted him but that did not prevent her from making life miserable for him in petty ways a ages old was between them and she for one would see to it that he was reminded so took advantage of her sex to pick n white and him his instinct would not permit him to attack her while her would not permit him to her when she rushed at him he turned his fur protected shoulder to her sharp teeth and walked away stiff legged and stately when she forced him too hard he was com the god s domain to go about in a circle his shoulder presented to her his head turned from her and on his face and in his eyes a patient and bored expression sometimes however a on his hind quarters hastened his retreat and made it anything but stately but as a rule he managed to maintain a dignity that was almost solemnity he ignored her existence whenever it was possible and made it a point to keep out of her way when he saw or heard her coming he got up and walked oflf there was much in other matters for white to learn life in the was simplicity itself when compared with the complicated affairs of vista first of all he had to learn the family of the master in a way he was prepared to do this as and had belonged to gray sharing his food his fire and his blankets so now at vista belonged to the love master all the of the house but in this matter there was a difference and many differences vista was a far affair than the of gray there were many persons to be considered there w a s judge scott and there was his wife there were the master s two sisters and mary there was his wife and then there were his children and of four and six there was no way for anybody to tell him about all these people and of blood ties and relationship he knew nothing whatever and would be capable of knowing yet he worked it out that all of them belonged to the ter then by observation whenever opportunity offered by study of action speech and the very of the voice he slowly learned the and the degree of favor they enjoyed with the ter and by this ascertained standard white treated them accordingly what was of value to the master he valued what was dear to the master was to be cherished by white and guarded carefully thus it was with the two children all his life he had disliked children he hated and feared their hands the lessons were not tender that he had learned of their tyranny and cruelty in the days of the indian villages when n and had first approached him he growled and looked malignant a from the master and sharp word had then compelled him to permit their caresses though he growled and growled under their tiny hands and in the growl there was no note later he observed that the boy and girl were of great value in the master s eyes then it was no nor sharp word was necessary before they could pat him yet white was never he yielded to the master s children with an ill 