Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-19

Ouah- Davic put together. He quite unreason-
ably glad when the plans for a concerted campaign
against the marauder suddenly fell through.
That so individual beast should have its career cut
short by an angry settlers bullet, to avenge few
ordinary pigs or sheep. was thing he could hardly
contemplate with patience. 10 scatter the pack
would be to rob the Quah-Davic solitudes of half
their romance. He determined to devote himself to
study of the great VOLTS personality and charac-
teristcs and foil as far this could be done with
out making himself unpopular, such plots might
be laid for the beasts undong.
Recognizing, however, that this friendly interest
might not be reciprocated, Kane chose his rifle rather
than his camera as weapon, on those Singing, blue
white nights when he went forth to seek knowledge
of the gray VOLTS ways. His rifle was well tried
repeater, and he carried light, short handled AK
in his belt, besides the regulation knife; so he had
no serious misgivngs as he trod the cracking moon
lit beneath the moosehide webbing OF his
snowshoes. But, not being utterly foolhardy, he
kept to the open stretches of meadow, river
bed, snow buried lake, rather than IN the close
shadows of the forest
put now when he was so expectant, the wolf pack
- seemed to find business elsewhere. For nights
not howl had been heard, not fresh track found.
within miles of Burnt-Brook Crossroads. Then, re-
membering that watched pot takes long to boil,
Kane took fishing lines and bait, and went up the
wide, white brook bed to the deep lake in the hills
whence it launches its shallow flood toward the
Quah-Davic He took with him also for companion
ship, since this time he not wolf hunting,
less yellow lump of mongrel doghesh, but friendly
and silent. After building hasty shelter of spruce
boughs distance out from shore in the flooding
light he chopped holes through the ice and fell to fish
ing for the big lake trout that inhabited those deep
waters. He had luck. And soon, absorbed in the
excitement, he had forgotten all about the gray wolf
1t was late for Kane had slept the early part of
the night. waiting for moonrlse before starting on
his expedition The air tingng with MINDLESS
cold, and ghosty white with the light of crooked
waning Suddenly, without a sound, the
dog crept close against kane's legs. Kane felt him
trembe. Looking up sharply, his eyes fell tall
gray torm sitting erect on the tip OF naked point,
not hundred yards away, and staring, not at him,
but at the moon.
In spite of himself, Kane felt a prcking in his
cheeks, creeping of the skin under his hair, the
apparition was so sudden, and above all the cool
Ignoring of his presence disconcerting More
over through that half sinister light his long uzzle
upstretched toward the moon and raised as he was
little above the level on which Kane was standing,
the wolf looked unnaturally and impossibly tan
Kane had never heard of wolf acting in this COOL
self possessed arrogantly confident fashion, and his
mind reverted obstnately to the outworn super
stitons of his habants friends. But after ALL it was
this wolf not ordinary, brush fence wolf that he
anxious to study; and the unexpected was
just what he had most reason to expect. He
getting what he for.
Kane knew that the way to study the wild Great
to keep still and make no noise So he
stifened into instant immobity and regretted that
he had brought the dog with him. But he need not
have worried about the dog for that intelligent ami
NAL shared no desire to attract the Gray Masters
notice. He was crouched behind Kanes legs, and
motionless except for his shuddering
For several minutes one stirred,-nothing
stirred, in all that frozen world Then feeling the
cold begin to creep in on him in the Stiffness Kane
had to lift his thick gloved hands to chafe his
He did it cautiously; but the caution super
fuous. The great wolf apparently had no objection
to his moving as much as he liked. Once, indeed,
those green, lambert eyes famed over him, but
casually, in making swift circuit of the shores of
the lake and the black fringe of the frs but for all
the interest that their vouchsafed him, Kane