Williams news., 1921-10-07

at last only a column of smoke re-
 mained.
 It was nothing to be afraid of. The
 great. gray leader of the pack, a wolf
 that weighed nearly 100 pounds, be-
 gan slowly and deliberately to set his
 muscles for the spring. It was the
 same as when the great bull elk comes
 to bay at the base of the cliffs; usual
 ly some one wolf, often the great pack
 leader, wishing to remind his followers
 of his might, or else some fu1l-grown
 male proud in his strength, will attack
 alone. Because this was the noblest
 game that the pack had ever faced.
 the leader chose to make the first leap
 himself. It was true that these two
 had neither such horns nor razor
 edged hoofs as the elk, yet they had
 eyes that chilled his heart when he
 tried to look at them. But one was lying almost prone, and the fire was out. Besides. the madness of starva- tfon, intensified ten times by their ter rible realization of the wound at her hip, was upon the pack as never be- fore. The muscles punched at his lean Hanks
 But as Snowbfrd and her father gazed at him in fascinated horror, the great wolf suddenly smashed down in the snow. She was aware of it's curi- ous, utter collapse actually before the sound of the rifle shot that accustomed it had penetrated her consciousness It was a perfect shot at long range; and for a long instant her tortured faculties refused to accept the truth.
 Then the rife spoke again. and sec Ond wolf-a large male that crouched on the other side of the sled-felI kick ing in the snow. The pack had leaped forward at the first death: but they halted at the second. And then ter | TOT came to them when the third wolf | suddenly opened it's savage lips and | screamed in the death agony.
 Up to this time, except for the re- port of the rifle. the attack had been made in utter silence. The reason was lust that both breath and nervous 'orce are needed to shout; and Dan Failing could afford to waste neither ,f these vital forces. He had dropped o his knee, and was firing again and lgain. his gray eyes looking clear and Itraight along the barrel, his fingers without jerk or tremOr pressing again md again at the trigger. his hands folding the rife as in wise. Every lerve and muscle were completely in is command. The distance was far, ct he shot with deadly, a aging ac- uracy. The wolves were within few II eet of the girl. and fractions waver n the gun barrel might have sped his ullet toward her.
 Its Dan Failing Lennox shouted g the fourth wolf died.
 Then SnOwbird snatched her pistol rom her fathers hand and opened fire. he two shells were no longer needed } free herself and her father from the gony of fangs. She took careful aim, nd although a pistol is never as ac- urate or as powerful a rife, she filed one wolf and wounded another.
 Frenzied in their savagery, three or >ur of the remaining wolves leaped the body of one of the wounded; Ut the others scattered in all direc- ons. Still Dan fired with the same un- elievabie accuracy, and still the olives died in the snow. The girl Id the man were screaming now in le frenzied joy of deliverance. The olives Scurried frantfcally among the ees; and some of them unknowingly m f-ll in the face of their enemy, to 3 shot down witho"I mercy. At:c N wv indeed were those that eSCapcC.- \ collect on a distant r.t:ge. and, per \ ips, to be haunted in dream hy 2 cath that came out of the shadows to asst the pack. Again the pack song would be de