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561
There
was
no
escape
for
White
Fang
.
The
only
way
out
was
between
the
two
tepees
,
and
this
the
boy
guarded
.
Holding
his
club
prepared
to
strike
,
he
drew
in
on
his
cornered
quarry
.
White
Fang
was
furious
.
He
faced
the
boy
,
bristling
and
snarling
,
his
sense
of
justice
outraged
.
He
knew
the
law
of
forage
.
All
the
wastage
of
meat
,
such
as
the
frozen
chips
,
belonged
to
the
dog
that
found
it
.
He
had
done
no
wrong
,
broken
no
law
,
yet
here
was
this
boy
preparing
to
give
him
a
beating
.
White
Fang
scarcely
knew
what
happened
.
He
did
it
in
a
surge
of
rage
.
And
he
did
it
so
quickly
that
the
boy
did
not
know
either
.
All
the
boy
knew
was
that
he
had
in
some
unaccountable
way
been
overturned
into
the
snow
,
and
that
his
club-hand
had
been
ripped
wide
open
by
White
Fang
's
teeth
.
562
But
White
Fang
knew
that
he
had
broken
the
law
of
the
gods
.
He
had
driven
his
teeth
into
the
sacred
flesh
of
one
of
them
,
and
could
expect
nothing
but
a
most
terrible
punishment
.
He
fled
away
to
Grey
Beaver
,
behind
whose
protecting
legs
he
crouched
when
the
bitten
boy
and
the
boy
's
family
came
,
demanding
vengeance
.
But
they
went
away
with
vengeance
unsatisfied
.
Grey
Beaver
defended
White
Fang
.
So
did
Mit-sah
and
Kloo-kooch
.
White
Fang
,
listening
to
the
wordy
war
and
watching
the
angry
gestures
,
knew
that
his
act
was
justified
.
And
so
it
came
that
he
learned
there
were
gods
and
gods
.
There
were
his
gods
,
and
there
were
other
gods
,
and
between
them
there
was
a
difference
.
Justice
or
injustice
,
it
was
all
the
same
,
he
must
take
all
things
from
the
hands
of
his
own
gods
.
But
he
was
not
compelled
to
take
injustice
from
the
other
gods
.
It
was
his
privilege
to
resent
it
with
his
teeth
.
And
this
also
was
a
law
of
the
gods
.
563
Before
the
day
was
out
,
White
Fang
was
to
learn
more
about
this
law
.
Mit-sah
,
alone
,
gathering
firewood
in
the
forest
,
encountered
the
boy
that
had
been
bitten
.
With
him
were
other
boys
.
Hot
words
passed
.
Then
all
the
boys
attacked
Mit-sah
.
It
was
going
hard
with
him
.
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564
Blows
were
raining
upon
him
from
all
sides
.
White
Fang
looked
on
at
first
.
This
was
an
affair
of
the
gods
,
and
no
concern
of
his
.
Then
he
realised
that
this
was
Mit-sah
,
one
of
his
own
particular
gods
,
who
was
being
maltreated
.
It
was
no
reasoned
impulse
that
made
White
Fang
do
what
he
then
did
.
A
mad
rush
of
anger
sent
him
leaping
in
amongst
the
combatants
.
Five
minutes
later
the
landscape
was
covered
with
fleeing
boys
,
many
of
whom
dripped
blood
upon
the
snow
in
token
that
White
Fang
's
teeth
had
not
been
idle
.
When
Mit-sah
told
the
story
in
camp
,
Grey
Beaver
ordered
meat
to
be
given
to
White
Fang
.
He
ordered
much
meat
to
be
given
,
and
White
Fang
,
gorged
and
sleepy
by
the
fire
,
knew
that
the
law
had
received
its
verification
.
565
It
was
in
line
with
these
experiences
that
White
Fang
came
to
learn
the
law
of
property
and
the
duty
of
the
defence
of
property
.
From
the
protection
of
his
god
's
body
to
the
protection
of
his
god
's
possessions
was
a
step
,
and
this
step
he
made
.
What
was
his
god
's
was
to
be
defended
against
all
the
world
--
even
to
the
extent
of
biting
other
gods
.
Not
only
was
such
an
act
sacrilegious
in
its
nature
,
but
it
was
fraught
with
peril
.
The
gods
were
all-powerful
,
and
a
dog
was
no
match
against
them
;
yet
White
Fang
learned
to
face
them
,
fiercely
belligerent
and
unafraid
.
Duty
rose
above
fear
,
and
thieving
gods
learned
to
leave
Grey
Beaver
's
property
alone
.
566
One
thing
,
in
this
connection
,
White
Fang
quickly
learnt
,
and
that
was
that
a
thieving
god
was
usually
a
cowardly
god
and
prone
to
run
away
at
the
sounding
of
the
alarm
.
Also
,
he
learned
that
but
brief
time
elapsed
between
his
sounding
of
the
alarm
and
Grey
Beaver
coming
to
his
aid
.
He
came
to
know
that
it
was
not
fear
of
him
that
drove
the
thief
away
,
but
fear
of
Grey
Beaver
.
White
Fang
did
not
give
the
alarm
by
barking
.
He
never
barked
.
His
method
was
to
drive
straight
at
the
intruder
,
and
to
sink
his
teeth
in
if
he
could
.
567
Because
he
was
morose
and
solitary
,
having
nothing
to
do
with
the
other
dogs
,
he
was
unusually
fitted
to
guard
his
master
's
property
;
and
in
this
he
was
encouraged
and
trained
by
Grey
Beaver
.
One
result
of
this
was
to
make
White
Fang
more
ferocious
and
indomitable
,
and
more
solitary
.
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568
The
months
went
by
,
binding
stronger
and
stronger
the
covenant
between
dog
and
man
.
This
was
the
ancient
covenant
that
the
first
wolf
that
came
in
from
the
Wild
entered
into
with
man
.
And
,
like
all
succeeding
wolves
and
wild
dogs
that
had
done
likewise
,
White
Fang
worked
the
covenant
out
for
himself
.
The
terms
were
simple
.
For
the
possession
of
a
flesh-and
~
blood
god
,
he
exchanged
his
own
liberty
.
Food
and
fire
,
protection
and
companionship
,
were
some
of
the
things
he
received
from
the
god
.
In
return
,
he
guarded
the
god
's
property
,
defended
his
body
,
worked
for
him
,
and
obeyed
him
.
569
The
possession
of
a
god
implies
service
.
White
Fang
's
was
a
service
of
duty
and
awe
,
but
not
of
love
.
He
did
not
know
what
love
was
.
He
had
no
experience
of
love
.
Kiche
was
a
remote
memory
.
Besides
,
not
only
had
he
abandoned
the
Wild
and
his
kind
when
he
gave
himself
up
to
man
,
but
the
terms
of
the
covenant
were
such
that
if
ever
he
met
Kiche
again
he
would
not
desert
his
god
to
go
with
her
.
His
allegiance
to
man
seemed
somehow
a
law
of
his
being
greater
than
the
love
of
liberty
,
of
kind
and
kin
.
570
The
spring
of
the
year
was
at
hand
when
Grey
Beaver
finished
his
long
journey
.
It
was
April
,
and
White
Fang
was
a
year
old
when
he
pulled
into
the
home
villages
and
was
loosed
from
the
harness
by
Mit-sah
.
Though
a
long
way
from
his
full
growth
,
White
Fang
,
next
to
Lip-lip
,
was
the
largest
yearling
in
the
village
.
Both
from
his
father
,
the
wolf
,
and
from
Kiche
,
he
had
inherited
stature
and
strength
,
and
already
he
was
measuring
up
alongside
the
full-grown
dogs
.
But
he
had
not
yet
grown
compact
.
His
body
was
slender
and
rangy
,
and
his
strength
more
stringy
than
massive
.
His
coat
was
the
true
wolf-grey
,
and
to
all
appearances
he
was
true
wolf
himself
.
The
quarter-strain
of
dog
he
had
inherited
from
Kiche
had
left
no
mark
on
him
physically
,
though
it
had
played
its
part
in
his
mental
make-up
.