ricane was gaining on him. His sense 

 of danger had grown almost to terror, 

 terror of a kind that he had never 

 known before, for here there was no- 

 thing he could fight; nothing that he 

 could resist. The flames were all 

 around him now; birds without num- < 

 her, hares, and deer had gone down 

 before the red horror. He was plung- 

 ing wildly on through chaparral and 

 manzanita thickets that held all feebler 

 things until the fury seized them ; his 

 hair was scorching, his wound was 

 forgotten, and he thought only of es- 

 cape when the brush ahead opened, 

 and the Grizzly, smoke-blinded, half 

 roasted, plunged down a bank and into 

 a small clear pool. The fur on his back 

 said "hiss," for it was sizzling-hot. 

 Down below he went, gulping the cool 

 drink, wallowing in safety and unheat. 

 Down below the surface he crouched 



