Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-13

husky were IN ths throes Of terrible
battle.
Tho four sther hussiss ran IN uufcsiy
and stood waiting q dozen PAGES rom the
oombatants. Gray Wolf lay crouohed on
her belly. The giant husky and the
quarter strain wolfdog were not hshunE
like sledge dog or wolf. For few mo.
ments rage and hatred made them fight
like mongreis Both had holds. Now
one was down, and now the other and
so swiftly did they change their posi-
tions that the four waiting sledge dogs
were puzzled and stood motionless. Under
other conditions they would have leaped
upon the FIRST OF the lighters TO be thrown
upon his back and torn him to pieces
That was the way OF the wolf and the
wolf dog. But now they stood back, hesi-
tating and fearful.
The big husky had never been beaten In
battle, Great Dane ancestors had given
him a huge bulk and jaw that could
crush an ordinary dogs head. But In
Kazan he was meeting not only the dog
and the wolf, but all that was best in
the two. And Kazan had the advantage
of a few hours of rest and a full stomach.
More than that, he was fighting for Gray
Wolf. His fangs had sunk deep In the
husky's shoulder, and the husky's long
teeth met through tho hide and flesh Of
his neck. An inch deeper. and they would
have pierced his jugular. Kasan knew
this, as he crunched his enemy's shoulder
bone, and every instant-even In their
fiercest struggling-he was guarding
against n second and more successful
lunse of those powerful Jaws.
At last the lunge came and quicker
than the wolf itself Kazan freed himself
and leaped back. His chest dripped blood,
but he did not feel the hurt They began
slowly to circle, and now the watching
sledge-dogs drew a step or two nearer,
and their Jaws drooled nervously and
their red eyes glared as they waited for
the fatal moment. Their eyes were on
the big husky. He became tho pivot of
Kazan's wider circle now, and he limped
as he turned. His shoulder was broken.
His ears were fattened as he watched
Kazan.
Kazan's ears were erect. and his feet
touched the snow lightly. All his lighting
cleverness and all his caution had re-
turned to him. The blind rage of n few
moments was gone and he fought now as
he had fought his deadliest enemy. the
long-clawed lynx. Five times he circled
around the husky. and then. like shot,
he was in, sending his while weight
against the huskys shoulder, with the
momentum OF a 10-foot leap behind It.
This time he did not try for hold. but
slashed at the husky's jaws. It was the
deadliest OF all attacks when that merci-
less tribunal OF death stood waiting for
the first fall of the vanaulshed. For a
fatal moment he rolled upon his side and
In the moment his four sledge-. iates were
upon him. All of their hatred of the
weeks and months in which tho long
fanged leader had bullied them In tho
traces was concentrated upon him now,
and he was literally torn into pieces.
Kazan pranced to Gray VOLTS side and
with a joyful whine. she laid her head
over his neck.
Twice he had fought the Fight OF Death
for her. Twice he had won. And in her
blindness. Gray VOLTS soul-if soul she
had-rose In exultation to the cold gray
sky and her breast painted against Ka-
zan's shoulder as she listened TO the
crunching OF fangs in the flesh and bone
of the foe her lord and master had over
thrown.
CONTINUED TOMORROW