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"If I could only snare a good, lively one!" suddenly broke out Stern

"What for?"

"Why, don't you see?" And with sudden inspiration he expounded Together, eager as children, they planned Beatrice clapped her hands with sheer delight

"But," she added pensively, "it'll be a little hard on the wolf, won't it?"

Stern had to laugh

"Yes," he assented; "but think how ariht by one hind leg with the slip-noosed leather cord, dangled inverted fro, jerking, writhing, frothing as he fought in vain to snap his jaws upon the cord he could not touch And night grew horrible with the stridor of his yells

"Now then," reh to shoot by No reason I should htful tu the flesh from bones that had as yet scarcely ceased to move Beatrice, pale and silent, yet very calhter Stern, as quietly hted, fired, sighted, fired And the ent on apace The bag of cartridges grew steadily lighter The as done long before all the wolves had died For the survivors, gorged to repletion, soradually away and disappeared in the dilades, there to sleep off their cannibal debauch

At last Stern judged the time was come to descend

"Bark away, old boy!" he exclainal now As long as those poor, dull anthropoid brains keep sensing you I guess we're safe!"

To Beatrice he added: "Come now, dear I'll help you down The quicker we tackle that raft and away, the sooner we'll be holad I'll be to see our bungalow again! How I hate the ruins of the city now! Look out, Allan--you'll have to let hten out in You don't knofully craht!" he answered, and swung her down as easily as though she had been a child Her ar kiss

But not even the night-breeze and the uile them to another For there was hard, desperate work to do, and time was short