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Kaiser. The bold boy was alone, but
overtaken moro rapidly than he ex-
pected By nightfall:

Gus p0LnWay6 well, consequently had
chosen somewhat shorter route than
the beaten road Of the Lauterbrunnen
Pass. He reached home about an hour
after the event related above. The
dog had shown great restlessness, o.
casionally stopped and shifted the air,
though Fritz was quite ignorant Of the
cause. His parents lay awake as their
boy approached the hotel. They were
not likely to sleep that night.
The horrors Of what might be hap
spening up that awful valley filed their
footsteps of Fritz and the bark of
Kaiser. The man darted down stairs
to open the door to his boy.
$ Thank God you have colne!'' said
he, his face pale and his voice agitated.
9. We didn't expect you at this time.
Make haste in said he, as he began
to close the door. Fritz fingered in
the road.
81 don't know what's the matter
with Kaiser tonight; he has been won
derfully restless for the last hour, and
now he is shifting about the road as if
he smelt danger. Here are footsteps
in the snow,' attentively examining
the ground. "Who has been here,
iatherp Or whatp Here Kaiser, Kaiser,
come here, old dog
The dog obeyed. The animal and
his master had now entered the door
Of the inn. The door was Immediately
slammed to, and the pale, terrified host
told the dreadful story to Fritz.
MY father, you have never sent
that traveller awayp''
have, boy. He was hunted hard
by pack of wolves, and we dared not
open the house lest the whole pack had
come in upon us" and the Wretched
mans teeth chartered in his fright.
"Oh, father, what have you done!
It's disgrace to the valley, it's dis
grace to Switzerland; it will be a last
ing, lasting disgrace to our family
And the boy rushed toward the stable
door. In minute after, in spite of
his fathers earnest expostu]ations he
had flung himself on to the unsaddled
horse, and with Kaiser at his heels,
dashed up the Lauterbrunnen Pass.
The Wretched parents listened in an
guish to the rapidly -receding sounds of
the horse, and the second time the val
ley was left to silence, to solitude and
the night.
The gallant boy rode almost wildly
on. It was long before he caught q
sound, although he often stopped to
listen, but could hear nothing above
the wall of the wintry wind. At length
he fancied he could discern very far
away, beyond the Staubach, the faint
bay of wolves, q sound to which the
ears of Fritz had been accustomed from
his childhood.
He urged his horse on with greater
eagerness, hoping he might not arrive
too late to be of use to the unfortunate
traveller. His horse suddenly swerved,
and Kaiser dashed forward on what
turned out to be the bloody carcass OF
wolf on the road.
1t was evident the man had had q
desperate struggle with the first as
sailant. On went Fritz, and found the
snow upon the road marked with q
long track of blood stains; another ami
NAL, not dead, but disabled, lay by the
side of the road, to which it had
crawled. Kaiser soon settled the mat
ter and left it dead.
Fritz was now in an agony of dis
tress, expecting every moment to come
upon some trace of the object of his
pursuit. A few yards further, and un-
der the boughs Of some trees which
overhung the way, lay stretched the
still heaving body of the horse.
| The miserable man had evidently de.
serted the horse to become the prey OF
the ravenous brutes, in hopes of saving
himself; but not q wolf remained near
the body of the horse; which they had
satisfied themselves with lacerating in
the eager pursuit of its rider.
At that instant human voice sound.
ed on Fritz's ear some little way fur.
ther on: it was clearly the note of q
person in the extreme agony of despair,
that despair which was SO naturally
awakened by solitary valley among
the mountains on winters night, and
the presence of hungry wolves.
The great difficulty of Fritz at this
moment was how he was to save the
unfortunate man, who was clingina
hazardously to the bough of the tree,
which could not support him long;
Between the boy and the terrified trav'
eler was now ranged circle of silent
wolves, for these animals, when they
I feel sure of their prey, give up theii
baying and their bowling.
The moment was critical; but the in.
stinct and experience of an Alpine boy
told him at once what to do. He
looked at the figure upon the bough
and gave q signal of encouragement
with his hand. He was not more thar
twenty yards from the tails of thu
pack.
Kaiser remained quiet, with his tai
between his legs; he was dog tor
well trained to advance step with
out his masters bidding, though ready
to spring at the throat Of any wolf, o.
to do battle with any three. Any bu
. thoroughly Alpine boy would have
been in perfect perplexity at this time
Before him, on the bough of the tree
was the miserable man he had come tt
save. Between himself and his obiec
was q circle of the most dangerous ami
mails Of the mountain or the forest
Brave and daring as his dog was, Frit.
well knew that in this crisis Kaise1
could do nothing. He sprang from hi
horse; the horse trembled. Kaiser new
or moved.
In q few moments Fritz had gath
cred some dry sticks upon the opposit.
side; he struck q spark from the fin
he always carried with him, and in
minute 9 brilliant flame illumined tn
forest, and flared over the hungr,
band. With the instinct Of the will
Il hoaa a. nf tho forest ~. tho rnnrnt a;na fLI
!. wolves were startled BY the FIRE. Wit
! . piteous howl. the who'd herd dartet
from the tree, tails between their legs
Kaiser, who had hitherto stood COW
ering with fear, now gathered fresl
courage. But there was not q momen
8 to be lost. Fritz knew this, for with
in few minutes the wolves would b
back. BE flung more and more dr.
d wood upon the FIRE; the flame ros
brilliantly, and the wolves were kept q
bay.
j IN the next few seconds Fritz wa