Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1918-02-15

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kazan's Teeth Sank Deeper.
shock sent him half dozen feet from
his enemy. He was up like q fash,
dizzy, snarling, on the defensive. The
lynx lay limp and motionless where 1t
had fallen. Kaxan came nearer, still
prepared, and shifted cautiously. Some
thing told him that the fight was over.
He turned and dragged himself slowly
along the ledge to the trail, and re-
turned to Gray Wolf.
Gray Wolf was no longer In the
moonlight. Close to the two rocks lay
the limp lifeless little bodies of the
three pups. The lynx had torn them
to pieces. With . whine Of grief Ka-
IAN approached the two b0ulders and
thrust his head between them. Gray
Wolf was there. crying to herself in
that terrible sobbing way. He went
In. and began to lick her bleeding
shoulders and head. All the rest of
that night she whimpered with pain.
With dawn she dragged herself out to
the lifeless little bodies on the rock.
And then Kazan saw the terrible
work of the lynx. For Gray Wolf was
blind-nOt for a day or q night, but
blind for all time. A gloom that no
sun could break had become her
shroud. And perhaps again 1t was
that instinct Of animal creation, which
often Is more wonderful than mans
reason, that told Kazan what had hap
pened- For he knew now that she was
helpless-more helpless than the little
creatures that had gamboled In the
moonlight few hours before. He re-
manned close beside her all that day.
Vainly that day did Joan call for
Kazan. Her voice rose to the Sun
Rock, and Gray VOLTS head snuggled
closer to Kaxan. and Kaxan's ears
dropped back, and he licked her
wounds. Late In the afternoon Kaxan
left Gray Wolf long enough to run to
the bottom Of the trail and bring MP
the snow-shoe rabbit. Gray Wolf muz-
zled the fur and flesh, but would not
eat. Still q little later Kazan urged
her to follow him to the trail. He no
longer wanted to stay at the top of the
Sun Rock, and he no longer wanted
Gray Walt to stay there. Step by step
he drew her down the winding path
away from her dead puppies. She
would move only when he was very
near her-sO near that she could touch
his SCARED flank with her nose.
They came at last to the point In the
trail where they had to leap down q
distance of three or four feet from the
edge Of a rock, and here Kaxan saw
how utterly helpless Gray Wolf had
become. She whined, and crouched
twenty times before she dared make
the spring, and then she Jumped stiff-
legged, and fell In Q heap At Kaxan's
feet After this Kaxan did not have
to urge her 20 hard, for the fall Inn
pinged on her the fact that she was
safe only when her muzzle touched her |
mates flank. She followed him obedi- |
entity when they reached the plain.
Erotting with her foreshoulder to his
hip.
Ka1an was heading for q thicket in
he creek bottom half a mile away,
IND . dozen times In that short dis
:ance Gray Wolf stumbled and fell.
And each time that she fell Kazan
earned little more Of the limitations
II blindness. Once he sprang OF in
pursuit Of Q rabbit, but he had not
AIKEN twenty leaps when he stopped
md looked back. Gray Wolf had not
moved an inch. She stood mOtiOnless,
mining the air-waiting for him! For
full minute Kazan stood, also wait
ng. Then he returned to her. Ever
'fter this he returned to the point
where he had left Gray Wolf, knowing
hat he would find her there.
All that day they remained In the
hicket. In the afternoon he visited
he cabin. Joan and her husband were
here. and both saw at once Kazap's
orn side and his lacerated head and
hOulders.
Pretty near a finish fight for him."
aid the man, after he had examined
I'm. 1t was either lynx or a bear.
mother wolf could not do that"
For half an hour Joan worked over
I'm, talking to him all the time, and
,ndling him with her soft hands. She
athed his wounds In warm water, and
Ten covered them with healing salve,
nd kazan was filed again with that
ID restful desire to remain with her