Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-14
CuAprER xIu-(Continued)


Turing those thirty seconds Ihor
~ watched his enemies without moving
while in his deep chest there gathered Slowly
n low and terrible growl. Not until the PACK
swept down into the cup OF the mountains
giving full tongue again. did he continue ms
retreat. But II was not flight, lie was not
afraid He was going on--because 10 go
ON was his business. He was not seekhs
trouble: he had no desire even 70 ueIenu
his possession OF the meadow ana the ht-
tie lake under the mountain; Ihere "eLe
was not naturally lover OF hshting But
he was ready to fight
He continued to rumble ominously, ana
IN him there was burning slow ana suileh
anger. He buried himself among the rocks
he followed a ledge with Muskwa sllhhlhs
close at his heels; he climbed over huse
scarn OF rock and twisted among boulders
hoIT % hi9 as houses But not once did ne
90 where Muskwa could not easily Follow
Snce when he drew himself from ledge
10 a projecting seam OF sahustoLe hISIv.
nm and found that Muskwa could not cnmp
II, he came down and went ahotner SaE Soon
The baying Of the dogs was now deep
doun in the basin. Then II began 10 rise
sUI,tIv as II on wings, and Thor knew
that the pack was coming up the green
sIide He stopped again, and TINS time
the wind brought their scent TO nm III"
and strong.
7, was a scent that tightened every mus
o,a In his great body and set strange fires
burning in him like raging furnaces with
the dogs came also the man'smell!
Hs travelled upward a little faster now
a,d the fierce and Joyous yelping Of the dogs
seemed scarcely a hundred yards away when
he entered a small open space In tho wiid
mnbeayal Of rock on the mountain side
Hiae a wall that rose perpendicularly
Twentv feet on the other side was sheer
FaII of a hundred feet, and the way ahead
was closed with the exception OF tran
scarcely wider than Thor's body by huge
crag OF rock that had fallen from the
shouIder of the mountain, The big grizzly
led Muskwa close up TO this crag and the
hreak that opened through 1t, and then
trrned suddenly back, so that Muskwa was
hehind him In the face OF the peril that
was almost upon them mother-bear would
have driven Muskwa into the safety OF
crevice in the rock wall Thor did not do
tbIs He fronted the danger that was
coming, and reared himself up on his hind
Twsntv feet away the trail he had fol-
lowed swung sharply around a projecting
bulge in the perpendicular wall, and with
ewes that were now red ana terrible lhor
watched the trap he had set.
The mack was coming full tongue. Fifty
,,ards beyond the bulge the dogs were rum
ming shoulder to shoulder, and a moment
later the frsts of them rushed into the
arena which Thor had chosen for himself
nv hulk Of the horde followed so closely
that the first dogs were flung under him
as they strove frantically to stop them
selves in time.
with a roar Thor launched himself among
them. His great right arm swept out and
inward, and II seemed TO Muskwa that he
had "a 'hered half Of the pack under his
huge b iy. with a single crunch Of his
laws he broke the back OF the foremost
hunter. From a second he tore the head so
that the windpipe trailed out like a red rope.
He rolled himself forward and before
the remaining dogs could recover from their
panic ne had caught one blow that sent
him flying over the edge OF the precpice
70 the rocks a hundred feet below. II had