Evening star., 1924-08-06

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! battles were pleasures. Terror itseit
and the mystery of the unknown
! lent to his living
| And there were easements and
| satisfactions. To have d full stom-
ach, TO doze lazily in the sunshine
| such things were remuneration IN
| full for his ardors and tolls. while
| his ardorS and tolls were IN them
selves self-remuncrative. They were
| expressions of life, and life IS al
| ways happy when IL Is expressing
| itself. So the cub had no quarrel
with his hostile environment. He
| was very much alive, very happy
Sdnd very proud of himself
PART THREE.
| THE GODS OF THE WILD.
CHAPTER l.
| The Makers of Fire.
! The cub came upon ii suddenly.
| 1t was his own fault. He had been
! careless. He had left the cave aud
| run down to the stream 70 drink. 1t
! might have been that he took no
notice because he was heavy with
! sleep. He had been out ali night
| on the meat trail and had but Just
then awakenedD And MS careless
| ness might have been due TO the
| ia amiliarlty Of the trail to the pool
He had Travelled il often and notn-
ing had ever happened on II
! He went down past the blasted
| pine. crossed the open space ana
| trotted. in amongst the trees. Tnen.
! at the same instant, he saw and
Smelt Before him, sitting silently
| on their launches. were five i've
! things, the like Of which he had
| glimpse of mankind. But at the
sight of him the five men did not
| spring 10 their feet. nor snow thcir
teeth. mol. snarl. They did not move.
! but sat there. silent and omlnous.
/ Nor did the cub move. Every IN
| stinct Of his nature would nave I'M
PEELED him to aSh wildly away had
| there not suddenly and for the fIrst
| time arisen in him another ana
! counter instinct. a great awe de-
| down to movelessness by an over
| Whelming sense of mis- own weak
ness and littleness. Here was mas
terry and power. something far and
! away beyond him.
The cub had never seen man, vet
the instinct concerning man was ms.
| In dim ways he recognized IN man
the animal that had fought itself to
| primacy over the other animals OF
| the wild. Not alone out OF his own
eyes. but out of the eyes OF ali ms
ancestors. was the cub now looking
upon man-out of eyes that had
| circled in tho darkness around count
less winter campfires. that had peer
| hearts of thickets at the strange
! two-legged animal that was lord
over other living things The spell
! of the cubs heritage was upon HIM.
! the fear and the respect born OF the
| centuries of struggle and the ac--
! Cumulated experience of the genera
/ tions. The heritage was too com
| peIllng for wolf that was Only a
cub. Had he been tulI grown M
| would have run away AS II was
| a M F..l ~
! fear, already half proffering the sub
| mission that his kind had profYered
| from the first time wolf came IN
TO sit by mans fire and be maae
/ warm.
| One of the Indians arose and
walked over to him and stopped
| above him. The cub covered closer
TO the ground. 1t was the unknown.
| obJectihed at last, in concrete fish
| and blood. bending over him and
| reaching down to seize hold of him
! His hair bristled involuntarily; his
| lips writhed back and his little fangS
were barred. The hand, poised like
doom above him, hesitated. and the
man spoke, laughing. ''Wabam wa
bisca ip pit tah." t"Look. The white
| fangs"D
The other Indians laughed loudly.
and urged the man on to pick up the
cub. AS the hand descended closer
and closer. there ragged within the
| CuD d DdlllS OF the instincts. ne eA-
| perienced two great impulSions-to
yield and to fight. The resulting
| action was compromise. He did
| both. He yielded till the hand al
most touched him. Then he fought.
his teeth flashing in d snap that
| sank them into the hand The next
moment he received a clout alOngsd"
| the head that knocked him over on
his side. Then all fight fed out Of
! him. His puppyhood and the in
| stinct of submission took charge Of
| him. He sat up on his launches and
ki-yi'd. But the man whose hand h.
had bitten was angry. The cub re-
| ceived Clout on the other sidi Of
his head. Whereupon he sat up and
| kt-yi'd louder than ever.
The four Indians laughed more
| loudly. while even the man who had
been bitten began TO laugh. They
| surrounded the cub and laughed at
him, while he walled out his terror
and his hurt. In the midst of it. he
heard something. The Indians heard
it. too. But the cub knew what il
was, and with a last. long wall that
had in il more of triumph than grief.
he ceased his noise and waited for
the coming of his mother, of his fero-
| cious and indomitable mother, who
fought and killed all things and was
never afraid. She was snarling as
she ran. She had heard the cry Of
her cub and was dashing to save him.
She bounded in amongst them. her
anxious and militant motherhood
making her anything but a pretty
sight. But to the cub the spectacle
of her protective rage was pleasing.
He uttered a glad little cry and
bounded to meet her. while the man
animals went back hastily several
steps. The she-wolf stood over
against her cub. facing the men, with
bristling hair, snarl rumhling deep
in her throat. Her face was dis
torted and malignant with menace,
even the bridge of the nose wrin-
king from tip to eyes, so prodigious
was her snarl.
Then il was that a cry went UP
from one of the men. "kiche" was
what he uttered 1t was an. eXcla
nation OF surprise. The cub felt his
mother whiting at the sound
"Kiche," the man cried again, this
time with sharpness and authority.
Continued in Tomorrow Starr