Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-28
CHAPTER X Continued. J

In her blindness Gray Wolf could no
longer hunt with her mate. But grad
ually new code Of understanding
rev up between them, and through
her blindness they learned many
things that they had never known be-
fore. BY early summer Gray Wolf
could travel with Kazan If he did not
move too swiftly She ran at his flank
with her shoulder or muzzle touching
him and Kazan learned not to leap,
but to trot. Very quickly he found that
he must choose the easiest trails for
GRAY. VOLTS feet When they came
to q space to be bridged by leap, ne
would muzzle Gray Wolf and whine,
and she would stand with ears alert
listening. Then Kazan would take
the leap and she understood the DIS
lance she had to cover. She always
over leaped which was good fault.
In another way, and one that was
destined to serve them many times IN
The future, she became of greater help
than ever to Kazan. Scent and hear
Ing entirely took the place OF sight.
Each day developed these senses more
and more and at the same time there
developed between them the dumb Ian.
ruage whereby she could impress upon
Kazan what she had discovered by
scent or sound. 1t became curious
habit Of Kazan's always to look at
Cray Wolf when they stopped to listen,
Or to scent the air.
After the fight on the Sun Rock, ka-
Lan had taken his blind mate to q
thick clump Of spruce and balsam IN
the river bottom, where they remained
until early summer. Every day for
weeks Kazan went to the cabin where
Joan and the baby - and the man =
had been. For long time he Went
hopefully, looking each day or night
to see some sign of life there. But the
doorewas never open. The boards ana
saplings at the windows always re-
NAMED. Never a spiral of smoke rose
from the clay chimney. Grass and
vines began to- grow in the path. And
fainter and fainter grew that scent
which, Kazan could still find about 1t
the scent OF man, Of the woman the
baby.
One day he found a little baby moe
casin under one of the closed windows.
It was old, and worn out, and blacken-
ed by snow and rain, but he lay down
beside it, and remained there for a
long time, while the baby Joan =
thousand miles away - was playing
with the strange toys Of civilization.
Then he returned to Gray Wolf among
the spruce and balsam.
The cabin was the one place to
which Gray Wolf would not follow him.
At all other times she was at his side.
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to blindness, she even accompanied
him on his hunts, until he struck game
and began the chase. Then she would
wait. for him. Kazan usually hunted
the big snow shoe rabbits. But one
night he ran down and killed young
doe. The kill was too heavy to drag to
Gray Wolf, so he returned to where
she was waiting for him and guided
her to the feast. In many ways they
became more and more inseparable as
the summer heightened. until at last
through all the wilderness, their foot
prints were always two by two and
never one by one.
Then came the great fire.
Gray Wolf caught the scent Of it
when it was still two days to the west.
The sun that night went down in a
lurid cloud. The moon drifting into
the west. became blood red. When it
dropped behind the wilderness in this
manner, the Indians called it the
Bleeding Moon, and the air was filled
with omens.
Ali the next day Gray Wolf was ner
vous. and toward noon Kazan caught
in the air the warning that she had
sensed many hours ahead Of him.
the scent grew stronger, and
Ey the middle of the afternoon the sun
was yelled by a film Of smoke.
The flight Of the wild things from