The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-08-15

nersd under . root and dug out with
her paws escaped her fangs.
Thirty-six hours before this Kaxan
and Gray Wok had left \ half of
their last kill . mile or two further
back on the plain. The kill was one
Of the big barren rabbits. and Gray
Wolf turned in it, direction. She did
not require sight % and II.
In her was developed to It's finest
point that sixth sense Of the animal
kingdom. the sense Of orientation. and
- straight - . pigeon might have
winged its flight she cut through the
bush to tho spot where they had
cached tho rabbit. A white fox had
been there ahead Of her, and she
found only scattered bits OF hair and
fur. What the fox had left the
mooee-birds and bush-jays had car
ried away. Hunsrily Gray Wolf
turned back to the river.
That night she slept again where
Kaxan had lain. and three times she
called for him without answer. A
heavy dow fell. and It drenched the
last vestige of her mates scent out OF
tho sand. But still through the day
that followed. and the day that fol-
lowed that. blind Gray Wolf chung TO
the narrow rim Of white sand. On
the fourth day her hunger reached q
point whore she gnawed the bark
from willow bushes.
It was ON this day that she made
Q discovery. She was drinking when
her sensitive nose touched something
In the waters edge that was smooth,
and bore . faint odor OF flesh. 1t
was one of the big northern river
clans. She paved II ashore. sniffing
at the hard she'll. Then she crunched
~ hAr nAvaT
tasted sweeter meat than that which
she found inside. and she began hunt
Ing for other clans. She found many
Of them. and ate until she was no
longer hungry. For three days more
she remained on tho bar.
And then, ono night, the call came
to her. 1t set her Quivering with q
strange now sxcitement-someth
that may have been q new hope, and
In the moonlight she trotted nervous
~ up and down the shining strip OF
sand, facing now tho north, and now
the south. and then the cast and the
west-her head flung up. listening. al
II In the soft wind OF the night she
was trying to locate tho whispering
lure OF a wonderful voice.
And whatever It was that came to
her. cAme from out Of the south and
east. on there--across the barren.
far beyond the outer edge OF the
northern timber line-was home. And
OF there. In her brute way. she rea-
soned that she must find Kazan. The
call did not como from their old wind
fall homo In the swamp. 1t came
from beyond that. and In q flashing
vision there rose through her blind
ness q picture OF the towering Sun
Rock, Of tho windii.y trail that led ia
It, and the cabin on tho plain. 1t was
there that blindness had como to
her.
II was there that day had ended
and eternal night had begun. And
II was there that she had mothered
her FIRST born. Nature had registered
these things so that they could never
be wiped out Of her memory, and when
the call came II was from the sunlit
world where she had last known ligh'
and life and had last seen tho moor
and the stars In the blue night Of TIT
skies.
And to that call she responded, leav
ing the river and Its feed behind her
straight out into the face OF darkness.
and starvation. no longer fearin,
death or the emptiness OF the worlt
she could not see; for ahead of her
two hundred miles away she coult
see the Sun Rock. the winding trail
the nest Of her first born between tn,
two big rocks-and kazanl