Evening star., 1924-07-31
CONTINUED from Yesterdays Starr

Forgotten already were the van
quished rivals and the love tale red
written on the snow. Forgotten, save
once, when old One Eye stopped for a
moment to lick his stiffening wounds.
Then it was that his lips half
his neck and shoulders involuntarily
bristled while he half crouched for a
spring, his claws spaSmodically
clutching into the snow surface for
firmer footing. But it was all for
gotten the next moment as he sprang
leading him a chase through the
woods.
After that they ran side by side,
like good friends who have come 70
an understanding. The Gays passea
by and they kept together, huntlns
their meat and killing anu ehti"s shat
in common. After a time the sne-
wolf began to grow restless. she
seemed to be searching for some
thing that she could not hnd. me
hollows under fallen trees seemed 10
attract her, and she spent much tlille
nosinr about among the larger snow
piled crevices in the rocks ana IN
the caves Of overhanging banks. Oio
one Eye was not interested at al
but he followed her ood-natureoiy
in her quest and when her lnVesu-
cations in particular places were un-
usually protracted he would lie down
and wait until she was ready to go on.
They did not remain in one place.
but travelled across country until tney
regained the Mackenzie River, down
which they slowly went, leasins ~
often to hunt game along the small
streams that entered II, put aIWa $
returning to it again. Sometimes tney
chanced upon other wolves, usually
in pairs, but there was no frlenoliness
of intercourse displayed on either
1o1r
sire to return to the pack formation.
Several times they encountered so1-
tary wolves. These were aiWays
males, and they were press1ngly IN
sistent on joining with one Eye ana
his mate. This he resented, and when
she stood shoulder to shoulder with
him, bristling and showing her teeth,
the aspiring solitary ones would pack
off, turn tail. and continue on their
lonely way.
through the quiet forest, One Eye
suddenly halted. His muzzle went
up. his tail stiffened. and his nostrils
dilated as he scented the al6 one
foot also he held up, after the manner
of a dog. He was not satisfied! and
he continued to smell the air, striv-
ing to understand the message borne
upon it to him. One careless sniff
had satisfied his mate, and she trotted
on to reassure him. Though he fol,
he could not forbear an occasional
halt in order more carefully to study
thu warning.
She crept out cautiously on the
edge of a large open space in the
midst Of the trees. For some time she
stood alone. Then One Eye, creep
ing and crawling. every sense on the
alert, every hair radiating infinite
suspicion, Joined her. They stood
side by side, watching and listening
and smelling.
To their ears came the sounds OF
dogs wrangling and scuff1ing, the gut
tural cries of men, the sharper voices
of scolding women, and once the shrlil
and plaintive cry of child. With
the exception of the huge bulks OF the
the flames Of the fire, broken by the
movements of Intervening bodies, and
the smoke rising slowly on the quiet
air. But to their nostrils came the
myriad smells of an Indian camp
carrying a story that was largely IN. IN.
,. every detail of which the she!wolf
: knew.
She was strangely stirred, and
shifted and shifted with an increasing
full. He betrayed his apprehension
and started tentatively to go. She
turned and touched his neck with her
muzzle in a reassurfng way, then re-
garded the camp again. A new visit
fulness was in her face, but 1t was
not the wistfulness of hunger. She
was thrilling to a desire that urged
her to go forward, to be in closer to
that fire, to be sQuabblfng with the
dogs, and to be avoiding and lodging
the stumbling feet of men.
One Eye moved impatiently beside
her. Her unrest came back upon her
and she knew again her pressing need
to find the thing for which she
searched. She turned and trotted
back into the forest. to the great re-
lief Of One Eye who trotted little
to the fore until they were well
wfthii the shelter Of the trees.
As they slid along. noiseless as