The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1917-11-29
CHAPTER v-continusd.

For the first time in his life Kazan
felt the terror and the pain of the
dsath.grip. and with mighty effort he
aung his head q little forward and
snapped blindly. His powerful jaws
closed on the VOLTS foreleg, close to
the body. There was cracking of
bone and crunching of flesh. and the
circle Of waiting wolves grew tense and
alert. One or the other Of the fighters
was sure to 60 down before the holds
were broken. and they but awaited
that fatal fall ~ Z signal to leap In
to the death.
Only the thickness Of hair and hide
on the back Of Kaxan's neck. and the
toughness Of his muscles. saved him
from that terrible fate Of the van
quished. The VOLTS teeth sank deep,
but not deep enough to reach the vital
spot. and suddenly Kazan put every
ounce Of strength In his limbs to the
effort, and flung himself up bodily from
under his antagonist. The grip on his
neck relaxed. and with another rearing
leap he tore himself free.
A. swift ~ q whip-lash he whirled
on the broken.legged leader of the pack
and with the full rush and weight of
his shoulders struck him fairly in the
side. More deadly than the throat-grip
had Kaxan sometimes found the lunge
when delivered at the right moment. 1t
was deadly now. The big gray wolf
lost his feet. rolled upon his back for
an instant. and the pack rushed in.
eager to rend the last Of life from the
leader whose power had ceased to
exist.
From out Of that gray. snarling.
bloody-lippcd mass, Kaxan drew back.
painting and bleeding. He was weak.
There vas Q curious sickness In his
head. He wanted to lie down In the
snow. But the old and infullible In
stlnct warned him not to betray that
weakness. From out Of the pack a slim.
1.-The gray she-wolf came up to him.
and lay down In the snow before him,
AMI then rose swiftly and smiled ut his
wounds.
She was young and strong and beau.
tlful. but kazan did not look at her.
Where the fight had been he was look
Ing. at what little remained OF the old
leader. The pack had returned to the
feast. He heard again the cracking Of
bones and the rending Of flesh, and
something told him that thereafter oil
the wilderness would hear and recog.
nice his voice, and that when he sat
back on his hnunches and called to the
moon and the stars. those swift. footed
hunters of the big plain would respond
to II. lie circlei twice about the carl.
bou and the pack, and then trotted on
to the edge Of the black spruce forest.
wh,r ho r.,ch.d IN. sh,aow, h.
,ooLsd h,cL cr.v wo,, w,. ,o,,ow,n.
Min Shc Nm. only , ,.w vor,. hc.
h,nd A,a ,,,v OH. co,,. nm ~ MIN .
little timIdlv md she Ton looked hack
N ,hs d.rr hIn,ch ~ M. on, m IN.
iake And ns she stood there close be.
side him, Kaxan shifted ut something
10 the air that was not the scent OF
blood. nor the pcrfume OF the bnlsam
and spruce. II was thing that seemed
to come to him from the clear stars.
the cloudlcss moon. the strange md
beautiful quiet OF the night Itself. And
its presence seemed to be a part Of
Gray Wolf.
lie looked at her. md he found Gray
VOLTS eyes u,ert and questioning. She
was youug-so young that she seemed
scarcely TO have passed out OF purpy.
hood. Her body WINS strong and slim
and beautifully shaped. In the moon.
ueht the hnir under her thront and