to stay  loped easily at isfied ood still, attacking rove to eat or drink.

    t s tree of rot greo standing for long periods, o ted ears dropped limply; and Buck found more time in  er for o rest. At sucs, panting ongue and  appeared to Buck t a cir in to t and stream and air seemed palpitant  ler sense.  kne t; t t strange t and ranging; and o investigate after he business in hand.

    At last, at t moose dourn and turn about. ted, refresrong, urned o on, er  loss for tangled ry itude of direction t put man and ic needle to shame.

    As ir in t different from t t borne in upon le, mysterious alked of it, ttered about it, t. Several times opped and dre sniffs, reading a message  calamity already  erso toion.

    trail t sent ling. It led straigoealtraining and tense, alert to titudinous details ory--all but tion of traveling.  silence of t. tted. ttened against a gray dead limb so t  of it, a self.

    As Buck slid along o tive force .  into a t and found Nig. ruding, her side of his body.

    A on  in Da in a deatruggle, directly on trail, and Buck passed around  stopping. From t sound of many voices, rising and falling in a sing-song c. Bellying foro t tant Buck peered out  over  kno  errible ferocity. For t time in o usurp cunning and reason, and it   his head.

    ts  t roy.  t man--it s--ripping t ill t jugular spouted a fountain of blood.  pause to im, but ripped in passing,  bound tearing  of a second man. tanding  in t, tearing, rending, destro