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The
dominant
primordial
beast
was
strong
in
Buck
,
and
under
the
fierce
conditions
of
trail
life
it
grew
and
grew
.
Yet
it
was
a
secret
growth
.
His
newborn
cunning
gave
him
poise
and
control
.
He
was
too
busy
adjusting
himself
to
the
new
life
to
feel
at
ease
,
and
not
only
did
he
not
pick
fights
,
but
he
avoided
them
whenever
possible
.
A
certain
deliberateness
characterized
his
attitude
.
He
was
not
prone
to
rashness
and
precipitate
action
;
and
in
the
bitter
hatred
between
him
and
Spitz
he
betrayed
no
impatience
,
shunned
all
offensive
acts
.
On
the
other
hand
,
possibly
because
he
divined
in
Buck
a
dangerous
rival
,
Spitz
never
lost
an
opportunity
of
showing
his
teeth
.
He
even
went
out
of
his
way
to
bully
Buck
,
striving
constantly
to
start
the
fight
which
could
end
only
in
the
death
of
one
or
the
other
.
Early
in
the
trip
this
might
have
taken
place
had
it
not
been
for
an
unwonted
accident
.
At
the
end
of
this
day
they
made
a
bleak
and
miserable
camp
on
the
shore
of
Lake
Le
Barge
.
Driving
snow
,
a
wind
that
cut
like
a
white-hot
knife
,
and
darkness
had
forced
them
to
grope
for
a
camping
place
.
They
could
hardly
have
fared
worse
.
At
their
backs
rose
a
perpendicular
wall
of
rock
,
and
Perrault
and
Francois
were
compelled
to
make
their
fire
and
spread
their
sleeping
robes
on
the
ice
of
the
lake
itself
.
The
tent
they
had
discarded
at
Dyea
in
order
to
travel
light
.
A
few
sticks
of
driftwood
furnished
them
with
a
fire
that
thawed
down
through
the
ice
and
left
them
to
eat
supper
in
the
dark
.
Close
in
under
the
sheltering
rock
Buck
made
his
nest
.
So
snug
and
warm
was
it
,
that
he
was
loath
to
leave
it
when
Francois
distributed
the
fish
which
he
had
first
thawed
over
the
fire
.
But
when
Buck
finished
his
ration
and
returned
,
he
found
his
nest
occupied
.
A
warning
snarl
told
him
that
the
trespasser
was
Spitz
.
Till
now
Buck
had
avoided
trouble
with
his
enemy
,
but
this
was
too
much
.
The
beast
in
him
roared
.
He
sprang
upon
Spitz
with
a
fury
which
surprised
them
both
,
and
Spitz
particularly
,
for
his
whole
experience
with
Buck
had
gone
to
teach
him
that
his
rival
was
an
unusually
timid
dog
,
who
managed
to
hold
his
own
only
because
of
his
great
weight
and
size
.
Francois
was
surprised
,
too
,
when
they
shot
out
in
a
tangle
from
the
disrupted
nest
and
he
divined
the
cause
of
the
trouble
.
"
A-a-ah
!
"
he
cried
to
Buck
.
"
Gif
it
to
heem
,
by
Gar
!
Gif
it
to
heem
,
the
dirty
t
'
eef
!
"
Spitz
was
equally
willing
.
He
was
crying
with
sheer
rage
and
eagerness
as
he
circled
back
and
forth
for
a
chance
to
spring
in
.
Buck
was
no
less
eager
,
and
no
less
cautious
,
as
he
likewise
circled
back
and
forth
for
the
advantage
.
But
it
was
then
that
the
unexpected
happened
,
the
thing
which
projected
their
struggle
for
supremacy
far
into
the
future
,
past
many
a
weary
mile
of
trail
and
toil
.
An
oath
from
Perrault
,
the
resounding
impact
of
a
club
upon
a
bony
frame
,
and
a
shrill
yelp
of
pain
,
heralded
the
breaking
forth
of
pandemonium
.
The
camp
was
suddenly
discovered
to
be
alive
with
skulking
furry
forms
--
starving
huskies
,
four
or
five
score
of
them
,
who
had
scented
the
camp
from
some
Indian
village
.
They
had
crept
in
while
Buck
and
Spitz
were
fighting
,
and
when
the
two
men
sprang
among
them
with
stout
clubs
they
showed
their
teeth
and
fought
back
.
They
were
crazed
by
the
smell
of
the
food
.
Perrault
found
one
with
head
buried
in
the
grub-box
.
His
club
landed
heavily
on
the
gaunt
ribs
,
and
the
grub-box
was
capsized
on
the
ground
.
On
the
instant
a
score
of
the
famished
brutes
were
scrambling
for
the
bread
and
bacon
.
The
clubs
fell
upon
them
unheeded
.
They
yelped
and
howled
under
the
rain
of
blows
,
but
struggled
none
the
less
madly
till
the
last
crumb
had
been
devoured
.
In
the
meantime
the
astonished
team-dogs
had
burst
out
of
their
nests
only
to
be
set
upon
by
the
fierce
invaders
.
Never
had
Buck
seen
such
dogs
.
It
seemed
as
though
their
bones
would
burst
through
their
skins
.
They
were
mere
skeletons
,
draped
loosely
in
draggled
hides
,
with
blazing
eyes
and
slavered
fangs
.
But
the
hunger-madness
made
them
terrifying
,
irresistible
.
There
was
no
opposing
them
.
The
team-dogs
were
swept
back
against
the
cliff
at
the
first
onset
.
Buck
was
beset
by
three
huskies
,
and
in
a
trice
his
head
and
shoulders
were
ripped
and
slashed
.
The
din
was
frightful
.
Billee
was
crying
as
usual
.
Dave
and
Sol-leks
,
dripping
blood
from
a
score
of
wounds
,
were
fighting
bravely
side
by
side
.
Joe
was
snapping
like
a
demon
.
Once
,
his
teeth
closed
on
the
fore
leg
of
a
husky
,
and
he
crunched
down
through
the
bone
.
Pike
,
the
malingerer
,
leaped
upon
the
crippled
animal
,
breaking
its
neck
with
a
quick
flash
of
teeth
and
a
jerk
,
Buck
got
a
frothing
adversary
by
the
throat
,
and
was
sprayed
with
blood
when
his
teeth
sank
through
the
jugular
.
The
warm
taste
of
it
in
his
mouth
goaded
him
to
greater
fierceness
.
He
flung
himself
upon
another
,
and
at
the
same
time
felt
teeth
sink
into
his
own
throat
.
It
was
Spitz
,
treacherously
attacking
from
the
side
.
