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"A-huh!" ht the relief and certainty in his excla of what the lance was arrested by a loo out of the forest Itcould not be a bear It passed out of glooreat frosty-coated bear lu toward the dead horse Instinctively Helen's hand sought the ar surface The touch eased away the oppression over her lungs, the tightness of her throat What must have been fear left her, and only a powerful excitement remained A sharp expulsion of breath frons that she had sighted the grizzly

In the ht he looked of iloo for him Helen's quick ht for the wonder and theof that scene She wanted the bear killed, yet that see, slohich took several th he reached it he walked around with sniffs plainly heard and then a cross growl Evidently he had discovered that hisbear could be seen distinctly, but only in outline and color The distance was perhaps two hundred yards Then it looked as if he had begun to tug at the carcass Indeed, he was dragging it, very slowly, but surely

"Look at that!" whispered Dale "If he ain't strong! Reckon I'll have to stop hirizzly, however, stopped of his own accord, just outside of the shadow-line of the forest Then he hunched in a big frosty heap over his prey and began to tear and rend

"Jess was a ood tosilvertip"

Then the hunter silently rose to a kneeling position, swinging the rifle in front of hilanced up into the low branches of the tree overhead

"Girls, there's no tellin' what a grizzly will do If I yell, you climb up in this tree, an' do it quick"

With that he leveled the rifle, resting his left elbow on his knee The front end of the rifle, reaching out of the shade, shone silver in the ht Man and weapon became still as stone Helen held her breath But Dale relaxed, lowering the barrel