"It was what you were made for, Bruce," she told him. "It's born in you. There's a hundred acres there--and three thousand--somewhere else. You've got new strength, Bruce. You could take hold and make them yield up their hay--and their crops--and fill all these hills with the herds." She stretched out her arms. Then all at once she dropped them almost as if in supplication. But her voice had regained the old merry tone he had learned to love when she spoke again. "Bruce, have I got to do all the asking?" His answer was to stretch his great arms and draw her into them. His laugh rang in the cavern. "Oh, my dearest!" he cried. The eyes lighted in his bronzed face. "I ask for everything--everything--bold that I am! And what I want worst--this minute--" "Yes?" "--Is just--a kiss." She gave it to him with all the tenderness of her soft lips. The snow sifted down outside. Again the pines spoke to one another, but the sadness seemed mostly gone from their soft voices. THE END By EDISON MARSHALL THE VOICE OF THE PACK With frontispiece by W. Herbert Dunton _Love story, adventure story, nature story--all three qualities combine in this tale of modern man and woman arrayed against the forces of age-old savagery._ "'The Voice of the Pack' is clean, fine, raw, bold, primitive; and has a wonderfully haunting quality in the repeated wolf-note"--_Zane Grey._ "Taken all around 'The Voice of the Pack' is the best of the stories about wild life that has come out in many, many moons."--_The Chicago Daily News._ "As a story that mingles Adventure, Nature Study and Romance, 'The Voice of the Pack' is undeniably of the front rank. Mr. Marshall knows the wild places and the ways of the wild creatures that range them--and he knows how to write. The study of Dan Failing's development against a background of the wild life of the mountains, is an exceedingly clever piece of literary work."--_The Boston Herald._ "An unusually good tale of the West, evidently written by a man who knows about the habits of the wolf-packs and cougars."--_The New York Times._