Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-10-30
CHAPTER II.
Into the North.


He missed the forests and deep SHOWS.
He missed the daily strife of keeping
his teammates in trace, the yapping
at his heels, the straight, long pull
over the open spaces and the barrens.
He missed the "Koosh-koosh-Hoo
yah p of the driver, the spiteful snap
Of his twenty-foot caribougut whip,
and that yelping and straining behind
him that told him he had his followers
in line. But something had come to
take the place of that which he missed.
1t was In the room, in the air all about
him, even when the girl or his mas
ter was not near. Wherever she had
been, he found the presence of that
strange thing that took away his
loneliness. 1t was the woman scent,
and sometimes it made him whine
softly when the girl herself was actu-
ally with him. He was not lonely,
nights, when he should have been out
bowling at the stars. He was not
lonely, because one night he prowled
about until he found a certain door,
and when the girl opened that door In
the morning she found him curled up
tight against it. She had reached
down and Rugged him, the thick
smother of her long hair falling all
over him in a delightful perfume;
thereafter she placed q rug before the
door for him to sleep on. All through
the long nights he knew that she was
just beyond the door, and he wis con-
tent. Each day he thought less and
less of the wild places and more of
her.
Then there came the beginning of
the change. There was a strange
hurry and excitement around him, and
the girl paid less attention to him. He
grew uneasy. He shifted the change
in the air, and he began to study his
masters face. Then there came the
! morning, very early, when the babiche
; collar and the iron chain were fas-
? tened to him again. Not until he had
? followed his master out through the
door and into the street did he begin
! to understand. They were sending him
= awayl He sat suddenly back on his
r launches and refused to bulge.
! "Come, Kazan," coaxed the man
. "Come on, boy"
: He hung back and showed his white
i fangs. He expected the lash of whiI
r or the blow of club, but neither came
d His master laughed and took him back
s to the house. When they left it again
e the girl was with them and walked
d with her hand touching his head. L
l. was she who persuaded him to leap III
l. through q big, dark hole into the Still
It darker interior of car, and it was sh'
S who lured him to the darkest corne
( of all, where his master fastened hi
IS chain. Then they went out, laughing
l. like two children. For hours afte
that Kazan lay still and tense, listen
| ing to the queer rumble of wheel
A under him. Several times those wheel
Il stopped, and he heard voices outside
II At last he was sure that he heard
II familiar voice, and he strained at hi
II chain and whined. The closed doc
III slid back. A man with a lanter
II climbed In, followed by his master
H He paid no attention to them, bu
II glared out through the opening int
Y the gloom of night. He almost brOk
loose when he leaped down upon tn
, white snow, but when he saw no on
there, he stood rigid, shifting the al
Over him were the stars he ha
howled at all his life, and about hil
i were the forests, black and silen
h shutting them in like a wall. Vainl
:. he sought for that one scent that we
7 missing, and Thorpe heard the 10
n note of grief in his shaggy throat. II
\ took the lantern and held it above h
head, at the same time loosening h
hold on the leash. At that signal thei
came voice out of the night. 1t can
VI from behind them, and Kazan whirle
\ so suddenly that the loosely hel
\ chain slipped from the mans han
u He saw the glow Of other lantern
1 And then. once more, the voice
"Kaa-aa-zanl
He was off like a bolt. ThorI
laughed to himself as he followed.
1.-THE old pirateI' he chuckled-
When he came to the lantern-lightt
s space back OF the caboose. Thor
found Kazan crouching down at
woman's feet. 1t was Thorpe's wifi
She smiled triumphantly at him as
ia. came up out Of the gloom.
ut you've wonl" he laughed, not u
to happily. "rd have wagered my la
en- dollar he wouldn't do that for al
,ft voice on earth. You've wonl Kaza
you brute, I've lost your
in His face suddenly sobered as Isob
Mt stopped to pick up the end of Z
chain.
Ia -He's yours, Issy," he added quick
nd 'but you must let me care for him u
I'LL tive know. Give me the chain.
'ep won't trust him even now. He's a wo
er, I've seen him take an Indians hal
CHI on at a single snap. I've seen hi
1t tear out another dogs jugular In o
he leap. He's an outlaw-a bad dog
to spite of the fact that he hung to I
ian like a hero and brought me out ali'
lad / can't trust him. Give me the chain
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