The daily Alaskan., 1922-03-18

ONCk WIS sIHHN|fIAt WI H AHNN 'N ''. ten better. It always looked To me as | fl the wild creatures had a law against Killing men. just as humans have. They've learned lt doesn't pay -somcrnru the wolves and hears ot Furope and Asia haven't found ouL ! The uauralIstS say that the reason is rather simple-that thc European peasant. his snul scared out of him by the government he lived under, has always fed from wild beasts. They were tWlrrs of the soil. and they car ried hoes Instead of guns They never nut the fear of God Into the animals and as result there are quite num- Der Of true stories about tigers end wolves that aren't pleasant 10 listen to. But our own frontierSmcn were not men 10 stand any nonsense from wolves or cougars. They had guns, and they knew how t0 use them. And they were preceded by as brave and as warlike a race as ever lived on the carth-a~mei with bows and arrows, Any animal that hunted men was i'm modIatc'v killed. and the rest found out it didn't nay.
 "Just as human hcincS have found out the same thIng-that it doesn't pay to hunt their fellow men. The laws of life as well as the laws Of na- rtions are against it"
 But the words sounded weak and dlm under rhc weight of the rh0ohhinc darkness: and Dan couldn't get away from The idea that the codes or life ny .wh'ch most men lived were forgotten quickly in the shadows or thc pines. Even as he spoke man was hunting man on the distant ridge where Whis- perfoot the cougar had howlcd.
 Hcrt Cransron. head of the arson 0ring rhot onrrucd on The UmD0ua a. wide. was not only beyond tho pale in regard Co the laws of rhe valleys hut he could have learned valuable lessons from the beasts in regard ro keeping the laws of rho n1s. Tho moon looked down fo find him waiting on a certain trail that wound down to the settle mrufS. his rifle '0u3ed and ready for another kIn5 Q. game than deer or wolf. Ue was waiting for Iaudy Hil. drprh: and ,nn greeting ho had for him was to destroy alI chances 0f the prosecuting attorney in the valley be low lrnrufr- certain names that he particularly wanted 10 know
 There was no breath of wfnd The great pines ian and dark Das, belief, stood absolutely morIonleSs, like strange pillars of rramy. Pert Gran sron krnlr m a brush covert his rife Ioaded and ready in his lean. dark hands.
 No wolf tNa' ran The ridges. no cougar rha. waited on The deer trails knew a wilder passion a more terrible hrood-uS' rra0 he. Y showed In his eyes. narrow and never resting from rhclr watch or rhg trail. Ir was iD his nnSrrrc. and ff revealed itself unmis. tnkahy ln rhe curl of his 'iUS Some thing like Nor steam WIS In his brain hlurrEng his sight and heating his blood
 The pine needles hrDg wholly mo. t0nIr>s above n's n.n1: hu' yot the FogF rarvnz on which hn FDo't orink'ed and rusro7 ~rfar him. Only rhe keen eSf ear cnuIH have heard tho sound and possibly iu his madness C-auSton himScIr was uor aware or it. And one would have wondered a long lime as to what rsusar tt Tl WAS simply that hc WIS snIycv.ug all over with hate and fury.
 A rwsc c-0rEo3 fa~ on rhe ridge shove him. Uc loaned forward. peer ing and rHe munn.-hr showed his racp in r7snr-frC detail r. revealed the aae3 lines. the terrible. drawn urS. rha u-.v hair long nvcr the dark rorS. His strong hands tChtencd upon tro hrcrcn of the rifle. His wtry figure grew tense.
 Of course ft wouldn't 57 -0 'o' his prey come tuo close. Laudy B1are,h wqS a good sro. too. young as Gran Srrn and or er~a' strength; and no sporting chance ~nuId he taken jn this hunting. Crnr>'ou had no intention of giving his enemy even rhe slightest chanre to defend himself. 1T HiIdreth ror down info rhp valley. his tcsti- mony would make short work Of the arson ring. He had rhp goods: he had hecn member of the disreDuJable crowd hfwselG
 Tne mans steps were quite distinct by now. CrausraO heard him fighting hl< way throu-h 'ho brush thiCkets and once a flock Of grouse, frightened from their DnrnnaS ny the approaching figure. flew down the trail in front Cranston pressed hack the hammer Of hls rife The click sounded loud In the silence. He had grown tense and sti1 and The leaves no longer rUsJled
 His eyes were intent on a little clearing. possibly one hundred yards up fhe trail The trail ltSelr went stvnfght through tt. And in an in- stant more HU1reth pushed through the huckhrush and stood revealed in the moonlight.
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