Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-08-06

o. defeat of death, of heaven knows
what remorselessneSs with which this
grave giant would administer justice
was upon him, and his heart seemed
to freeze in his breast. Cravenly he
leaped for his knife on the blankets
below him.
Dan was upon him before he ever
reached it. He sprang as cougar
spngs, incredibly fast and with shat
tering power. Both went down. and
for long time they writhed and strug-
gled In each others arms. The pine
boughs rustled strangely.
The dark, gaunt hand reached in
vain for the knife. Some resistless
power seemed to be holding his wrist
and was bending its bone as an Indian
bends bow. Pain dashed through him.
And then this dark-hearted man. who
had never known the meaning of mer-
cy. opened his lips to scream that this
terrible enemy be merciful to him.
But the words wouldn't come. A
CHASTITY weight had come at his throat
and his tortured lungs sobbed for
breath. Then, for a long time. there
was a curious pounuing, flashing sound
in the evergreen bougns. 1t seemed
merciless and endless.
But Dan got up at last, in a strange.
heavy silence, and swiftly went 10
work. lie took the rifle and filed it
with cartridges from Cranston's belt.
Then he put the remaining two boxes
of shells into his shirt pocket. The
supplies of food-the sack Of nutri-
tious jerked venison like dried bark.
the little package of cheese. the boxes
OF hard tack and one of the small
sacks Of prepared flour-he tied. with
a single kettle, into his heavy blan-
kets and flung them with the rifle upon
MS back. Finally he took the pair of
snow shoes from the floor. He worked
colby, swiftly, all the time munching
at q piece of jerkcd veuison When he
had finished he walked to the door of
the lean-to
1t seemed to Dan that Cranston whs-
pered family, from his unconscious
ness. as he passed; but the victor did
not turn to look. The snow shoes
crunched away into the darkness. ON
the hill behind a half dozen wolves
straggers from the pack-friSked and
leaped about in q curious way. a
strange smell had reached them on the
wind, and when the loud, fearful steps
were out of hearing, 1t might pay them
to creep down, one by one, and investi-
gate its cause.
The gray circle about the fire was
growing impatient. Snowbird waited to
the last instant before she admitted
this fact. But It IS possible only so
long to deny the truth of a thing that
all the senses verify, and that moment
for her was past.
She noticed that when she went to
her hands and knees. laboriously to
cut a piece of the drier wood from the
rain-soaked, rotted snag that was her
principal supply Of fuel. every wolf
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