Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1921-05-05
The Voice of the Pack
By EDISON MARSHALL
By EDISON MARSHALL
Copyright 1920. by Little. Brown


circle under il, They've got more pa
thence than We haNC-and we'd have
tu come down some time Your father
can't com" L. our help. you know. It's
the sign of the trndcrfuot not t0 think
there's any danger and I'm not going
Ia think that way any more"
They turned back and muShcd in
silence Il long time.
81 suppose youll think I'm a ccV-
ard" Dan asked her humhly.
only prudent. Dan" she answered.
smiling. Whether she meant it he did
not know. I'm just beginning to I'M
d"rSiaud that y0u-living here only
few monthS-rCally know and under
stand all this better than do" She
stretched her arms wide To- the wilder
ness. 81 guess It's your instinct"
And | do understand" he told her
earnestly. Il ScnScd danger back
Their" just aS sure rs can see your
face. That packard It's big one
* close; and its terribly hungry. And
you know-you cant help hut know
that the wolves are not to he trusted
in famine times"
81 know 1t only too we'll" she said.
Then she paused and asked him
about strange grayncSs. like snow
| blown by the wind, on the sky over
the ridge.
Bert CranSton waited i'm a clump of
| exposed thickct on the hillside until
! he saw two black dots. that he knew
/ were Dan and Snowhird. leave the
/ Lenn"N home. He lay very still rs
( they circled up the ridge. noticing
/ that except for the pistol that he
| knew Snowbird ALWAYS carried. they
were unarmed. There was no par
| ucnlar reason why he should he inter
/ cStcd in that point. II was lust the
mountain way always To look for
weapons, and il is rather difficult TO
trace the mental processes behind this
/ impulse. Perhaps il can be laid to
the fact that many mountain families
are often mt fcud with one another,
and anything i'm the way of violcnc.
may happen before the morning.
The two passed out of his sight
and after a long time he heard thu
crack of SnOwbird'S pistol. He
guessed that she had either shot AZ
some wild creature, or else was mere.
| ly at target practice-rathcr Il com.
mon proceeding for the two when
they were ON the hills together. Thus
II is to he seen that CranSt0n knew.
their habits fairly well. And since he
had kept a close watch upon them for
several days, this was To he expected.
He had no intention of being inter.
| ruptcd in this work he was about to
do. lie had planned il all very we'll
The elder LennoN was still helpless.
CranstOn had noticed that when Dan
and Snowbird went out, they were
usually gone from two TO four hours +;
and that gave him plenty of time fer
his undertaking. The moment had
come at last to make thorough
search of Lemons house for those in
eliminating documents that Dan had
found near the body Of Landy Hill
dlcth.
The only really dangerous part of
his undertaking was his approach. If
by any chance LennOX were looking
out Of the window. he might be found
waiting with rifle across his arms.
II would be quite like the old noun
tainecr to have mis- gun beside him.
and to shoot ii quick and exceptional
ly straight without asking questions,
mt any stealing figure i'm the snow. Yet
CranSton felt fairly sure that Lennox
was still too helpless to raise gun
10 Il shooting position.
lie had observed that the noun.
taine"r spent his time either on the
, fireplace divan or on his own bed
Neither of these places was available
"a the rear windows of the house. So
, very wisely. he made his attack f"nn
, the rear.
,TNn DR.