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CRAVING

For an hour Leo dozed. Occasion- St. ally he thought of his snug, warm cabin. But always the torment of the past seven days came to bolster his spirit, to spur him must satisfy that craving.

Leo Le Blanc, whose trap line ex- tended all the way from Great Pierre to the headwaters of the Little Bear, was two miles away from his He cabin when it bagan to snow. paused to scan the heavy sky.

"Eet weel be one grand storm," he muttered aloud. "The biggest of the year, I am one damn' fool."

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Again he plunged into the

storm.

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It was now quite dark. The blizzard had not abated. Wind and snow and He looked back over the trail, cold joined forces to defeat and crush Thirty minutes of rapid walking the only living thing that dared ven- would bring him to the comfortable ture abroad in this moment when na- security of his cabin. There was ture was on a rampage.

month. Hours later Leo stumbled and fell. food here, enough to last a There was firewood and a warm bunk. He lay quite still for a moment, con- He turned and looked ahead. Bar- scious of a terrifying desire to sleep. an effort, ren, uninhabited snow wastes stretch- He roused himself with ed away over endless miles. Thirty fighting off the drowsiness that miles beyond lay the trading post of knew, if once succumbed to, would the Hudson's Bay company. But the end in death. thirty would turn into sixty for Tiny particles of ice clung to man on snowshoes, once the full sweep eye-lashes, protruded from the few No sane short hairs of his mustache. One of the storm had atruck. man would have attempted such a ear was numb--frozen. The little hazardous undertaking.

finger of his left hand was without Leo turned his back on the trading life. Nature, it seemed, had won. post, heeding his better and saner Leo's strength was gone; his great judgment. Two, three, a half dozen store of reserve energy was exhaust- steps he took. Then he was stopped ed. The end, he knew, was near un- by an inner urge, a craving for some less-Leo lifted his head and suddenly thing that he could get at no other knew a great joy, a feeling of ex- place, an overwhelming desire to ultation! Ahead, a pinpoint of light satisfy a longing that had tormented blinked at him through the thick his spirit for seven days.

wall of swirling snow! He had won! Leo whirled halfway around, re- Conquered an almost unconquerable solutely set his face away from the enemy! cabin, and grinned as though in de- He lurched ahead.

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fiance. He was a youny man, vigor. ous and strong. He was impulsive, possessed of a stubbornness that had conquered where weaker wills failed.

As he stepped out briskly the first few flakes, forerunners of what was to follow, smote him in the face. He raised a flat and shook it threa- teningly.

MacDonald, superintendent of the his Little Bear Post, was unlacing

when boots preparatory to retiring, the door flew open, emitting a fierce blast of snow and wind,--and Leo.

"Hoot!" said MacDonald, and leap- ed to his feet. He dragged the trap- per near the great box stove, slam- i med shut the door, and began to re- move Leo's outer clothing. MacDonald was puzzled, for despite the physical Injury, a grin showed on his face.

"Bah! You are the king of the Northland! So you theenk, eh! Leo ees not afraid. He will show you who is king. Bah!"

And with this challenge, he lower- ed his face until his head, bent for ward and swung into that long, tire- less pace of the born woodsman.

man's

Leo at length opened his eyes, star- ed up at the trader, and his grin broadened

"M'sicu! It ees Leo Le Blanc who Less than an hour later the storm has come all the way from hees cabin broke, Leo had entered the shelter- on the Little Bear for one leetle ing protection of an evergreen stand. cigarette. The kind in the red pack- It was nearly dark; instinct kept him age. Diable! There were none in on the trail. His pace 'slackened not my pack, none save those I carried. I have come for to replenish my stock."

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at all.

Overhead the wind shrieked and arched the crowns of forest monarchs A grey curtain of snow had settled over the land. Objects, however large were nearly obscured at distances of two feet or less.

Incredulously doubting the trapper's sanity, MacDonald reached up and brought down one of the red pack- ages of cigarettes that Le Blanc had indicated. Leo eagerly broke off the cylinder It became a fight of man against covering, placed the white nature.. And nature, it

He appeared, between his lips and ignited it. was summoning her every weapon to inhaled deeply then blew great clouds subdue this human who had dared of smoke toward the ceiling.

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defy her. Added to the wind and "Ah, M'sieu," he said, addressing snow came cold. Sharp, biting, pene- MacDonald, "eet is one grand word. trating cold. Despite his warm, Eet is one grand feeling to be alive." fleece-lined sheepskin, despite his (Copyright, 1938, By The Associat. tremendous exertions, Loo felt the ed Newspapers.)

bitter cold penetrating his marrow.

Four hours after the storm had 1 started Leo rested. He had covered, he estimated, nearly half of the distance.

Crawling beneath an overhanging before boulder, he threw brush up the entrance, rathored firewood and set it alight. The heat was resuscitat ing, yet even here the icy blasts from the Arctic, reached in with frigid. fingers.

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