ro.tlvu had sprung up waited a while to make As the calling for help continue at intervals of about fivef minutes, 1 finally dressed, wolu t; th cowboy in the on i house*secured a lantern and a i if!’iand started out afoot in lb-1 ditPC’ion of the voice, followsbythe boy. I wouldn’t dare try 10ride through that pa turn% %g l l t »“I ;.new that it it v.via aI r\ n nI 1 I i-V I ihe won 1 cl su t cly bo 1tW%b -Atnovns as ai full of prickly pei norcupi ne by mom mg, n ushould survive the blizzard, lor-rWirlc of Lhal pasture was an„ tne nucrt. *!L biin. i1 impenetrable mass of cat us tomd anv animal but'a coyot '•e cu •«“I fired my rifle frvn tip i %, ...115to time, but the voice sto pav no attention to the sig-- nal. The toy s.rd he thoui the fellow must be crazy wilh . fright. In fact, the voice seem 1 ed to be farther and tuithei- ft way the more we fired and 11 hi her we went indicating thatwhatever it was, it was not c 11-, I had exhausted the |cartridges in my belt, ano \vhc-:. the rising storm had drowneaout the voice and almost oyer-come us, we decided that we h:-d |.1 been fooled and picked our wajback to the ranch house, we spent the rest of the ruglnthorns out ot oui- shins. _ .i “Next day, when 1 rode ova e the trail leading through toe i buck pasture 1 found the big cat-'tracks of a panther that musti have been calling for his mat-u I the night before.He didn’ find her, for Ic, Vi ot her the week before as she was dragging a doe which she had killed at the wind-null tank.