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Title: Kazan

Author: James Oliver Curwood

Release Date: November 14, 2003 [EBook #10084]

Language: English

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[Illustration: He heard Joan's voice]

KAZAN

BY JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD

Author of
The Danger Trail, Etc.

Illustrated by
Gayle Hoskins and Frank Hoffman

1914

CONTENTS

I. THE MIRACLE

II. INTO THE NORTH

III. McCREADY PAYS THE DEBT

IV. FREE FROM BONDS

V. THE FIGHT IN THE SNOW

VI. JOAN

VII. OUT OF THE BLIZZARD

VIII. THE GREAT CHANGE

IX. THE TRAGEDY ON SUN ROCK

X. THE DAYS OF FIRE

XI. ALWAYS TWO BY TWO

XII. THE RED DEATH

XIII. THE TRAIL OF HUNGER

XIV. THE RIGHT OF FANG

XV. A FIGHT UNDER THE STARS

XVI. THE CALL

XVII. HIS SON

XVIII. THE EDUCATION OF BA-REE

XIX. THE USURPERS

XX. A FEUD IN THE WILDERNESS

XXI. A SHOT ON THE SAND-BAR

XXII. SANDY'S METHOD

XXIII. PROFESSOR McGILL

XXIV. ALONE IN DARKNESS

XXV. THE LAST OF McTRIGGER

XXVI. AN EMPTY WORLD

XXVII. THE CALL OF SUN ROCK

CHAPTER I

THE MIRACLE

Kazan lay mute and motionless, his gray nose between his forepaws, his
eyes half closed. A rock could have appeared scarcely less lifeless than
he; not a muscle twitched; not a hair moved; not an eyelid quivered. Yet
every drop of the wild blood in his splendid body was racing in a
ferment of excitement that Kazan had never before experienced; every
nerve and fiber of his wonderful muscles was tense as steel wire.
Quarter-strain wolf, three-quarters "husky," he had lived the four years
of his life in the wilderness. He had felt the pangs of starvation. He
knew what it meant to freeze. He had listened to the wailing winds of
the long Arctic night over the barrens. He had heard the thunder of the
torrent and the cataract, and had cowered under the mighty crash of the
storm. His throat and sides were scarred by battle, and his eyes were
red with the blister of the snows. H