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Show "Get up quickly' !S. oane ik.. i. M ,w aha ..m .w. wiien ana iwrtt- CHAPTER ' 8 in j1 . - iuaiiuiiLiLiirii wpnctPn ... "tyN, SYNOPSIS. aecueed J "'NfiiW. I. licated oiw of of mwm crime of S2i-- Cayky, ,bots " could "" t fr.OKI til erection for WatthihK him an h. did r could that L had found ao J he whm solitude, . ii.1.. avaiuia " lfa.fl S nyin IH""". . tin. urprlHd him greatly. And there tii'k he had on In the !L,.i aliHiN-n)oro Umn "MrprtHA There was t. hand. Mounting aaaln, he a va.ht anchored In the bay. Do-meats a ho to apoko the Jut. He offered no explanaLam nar - n, la Jeanne Fleldlm and (hat tion. MlTf V tillil l.nr . t ha romt north to arcK stun hut and muko fast the .olid wooden h,r fuifiir. Captain KMdlna;. an arctlo ahutlnr. over tho windows. Ho would ,lorr. A party xrom I ha yncht la come In and would toll hor Caylv hut it .'a Wnrta that ha had dropped a was all about, In a moment. mirk. Captain 1'lawk and The girl had hardlv finiui. . urvlvlnii craw of hla wrecked whalerrutI. id hidlnjr on the coaat. A r m'iuiii lianMl lilW"". linn IIIU'i.iu lit In. In hla blood stained hand Lt h'a two companlona, after tha. cx he was ttt naa rvvriticu iiiw iiiviiiii m hi, holding out aomethlng for her toupee- mow ledae of pure sold. Itoarne then It develnpa jr Mmninnd of tha partv. f.i ih. rufflan had committed tha mur- Conquering a feeling of repugnance, H eitneaaed by Cayley. Iloeeoe plana wuu w ahe bent over the hand, cant ono riw it me anil rvm raptura L kit nf anlil Jeanne telle Kanaliaw. at the thing It contained and Int of tha yacht, about tha vlalt of tha glance ana atiowe nim me aura len oy then atarted up and gazed, wide-eyed- . that It la an Into his face. dry. Kanahaw used to ahoot dmo throwlnv-atlc"A bullet!" she aaid. Ina Tom r annua w raturna irom ina "nnfi,.it ... rrnln party wnn a apramaq enxia. thought that Roscoe wasn't armed ana la iiiuna HUMT niururrra arrf tiff la acruaa or inn cnrrm Dili jranna not with fire arms, I mean." ora A rallef Innocent. him party ;imtm Cayley nodded. "Rut thla Tom proreaaaa hla Jnd tha acarchera. ona rowa aannra ana be pretty good evidence that he la. for Joanna, r so abandoned hut and thera flnda kr fithrr'a diary, which dlacloaea the maDlclon of Roacoe. Tha ruf- - I Jeanne. ka raturna to tha hut . and L la intent on munli-rwhen tha Kky- Lin iwootia down and tha ruffian AWa. Lnn aivea Cayley her father'a diary aiaappeara ana itoa- Lrrtd. Tnato yarnt captura It are reveaM. tnne'a only hopa la In Cayley. Tha rlotitneaa of their situation bromea ap krfnt to Jeanne ana in i ay h kllla a polar bear. Next he flnda a ( to tha hldlnit rlaca of tha atnrea. teo la about to attack the arlrl when li tent timing in terror by the sight n th awooplnn down. Meaaurea h taken to fortify tha but - iticiaa 9 XIX. hi, doubt a. to Jeanne'. Identity, nor to aolve the mystery of Cayley'. ppearanc, th, Tho tormen h"a than h?, eviction could have ""Da time, I one Thmp-,b- Roicos. w up - aiiMKriu'a luUty. inn til m Tc,,,y ihi V d dla-fi- ma-Aft- er K did, that the cause of all hla th9 " bteh kept him penned up l,,re la (h rlve Md Bled h m aeceH. to more e than the ..dKe, of .ho ho,h, might he just a rather fur-tlv- defences, human couple a beautiful, young. nllurlnK-w- hen he an mat he would go olt into tranHBoru of rage, whlth left "-nis gigantle body limp and ex. uu-u- . ir that were the situation, be uilKht have killed the man week, ago nnd taken posHeoHlt.n of the man. . . . .. . Tlia .,!.... .1 ,.,,8 u,m K,.P ,m Mno wa8 In llwlf, a species of Insanity, the pension for gold which hnd led hhn to muraer captain Melding. Kvery he tramped up the glacier to the day gold ledgo and there, whllo the light lasted, no wonted, cutting the precious metal out of the rock, and with Infinite labor Dealing It pure. As the week, and months dragged along, this unvaried routine more than compeiiHuted for the solitude and the terrors his superstition thrust upon blm, and gradually restored him to his old normal, formidable, brutal self. On the day when he made the discovery mat was to terminate the long .erlea of golden days which Jeanne and m aa axy-ma- v JJ y n. iky-ma- CHAPTER XVIII Continued. The sentence Is that you shall be shtened with a bear story. There's t!( one coming down the beach aft- - t you this very moment, and you're surrender the revolver to me and pjI under arrest in the hut until afthave killed blm." ihe did not need to be told that he u In earnest. In eplte of the smile Jat went with hla words. She turned ibout quickly and looked up the Trai f)Seach, sighting along Cayley'a arm as lie pointed. Even in the deep twilight I what onre had been a ahtrt, sufficed to put It Into commission again. Then, with the rifle over hi. shoulder, he swaggered out of the cave. With his first glance abroad, be atarted. Hi. devil was being kind to him today. There could be no doubt of that Only, was be being too klndT Roscoe wondered a little uneasily. For, shambling along the Ice. through the thickening twilight, not 100 paces away, was a big bear. Roscoe was tired of walrus meat The thought of a bear steak made bis mouth water. Three years' disuse, however, had made his marksmanship somewhat uncertain. He fired too soon, and though be did not iiiIsm, the only effect hi shot hnd was to make the bear turn about and go shambling down the glacier toward the beach, with miRulnly haste. Rokcoo hurried after him, and fired two more shots. whether they hit or not, he could not tell. Certainly they did not serve to cheek the bear's flight. The next moment he hnd rounded the corner of the cliff and disappeared down the bench In the direction of the hut. Roscoe hesitated but only for a moment; then, with an oath, he set nut In pursuit. It was not so much the protection which the rifle afforded him that waa responsible for this new courage as It was that the mere feel of It In his hands brought him back In touch once more with the everyday matter of fact world, and made his visions and ghosts seem a little unreal. It was fully dark down here In tbe shadow of the cliff. Tbe lumbering yellow shape of the bear was indistinguishable agalnRt the Icy beach. That didn't matter, for he could follow along well enough by tbe bloody track the wounded beast bad left Tbe last of the twilight was still In the sky. and half his glances were directed thither, looking for some thing which he told himself could not possibly exist, except in his own fancy, yet fully expected to see never theless, the shadow of Cayley's great wings. And at last he saw It Im pending In the lower air, like a brooding spirit Just above the tiny square of light which marked tbe location of the hut. Roscoe abandoned his pursuit of the bear; all thought of it In fact, was gone from his mind; but be did not, as on a former ocsaslon, drop down prone upon the ground, his face buried in his arms; nor did he turn and flee like one hag ridden up the beach. He rage against the two who bad baffled him and enjoyed Immunity from him so long, almost led him to attempt to break Into the hut then and there, and settle matters; but his saner common sense told him that the settlement would almost inevitably be against blm should be attempt It. He was still entertaining this no tion, however, when a luminous Idea occurred to him. Around on the far side of the but the west side, which looked toward tbe headlands, waa good-stiewhich heap of Philip bad not been able to find room for Inside the hut Roscoe had with him a flint and steel and quantity of tow. He never traveled without them. With Infinite precaution against noise he began laying a fire against the windward wall of the hut. 8qunt ting, with his rifle across his knees ready to use In case of an emergency he methodically whittled a quantity of dry splinters off a few of the sticks Ignited them and carefully nursed the blazo, until, under the rising wind, It grew to the beginning of a conflagration. Then, catching up his rlflo, he slipped around the other side of tbe hut, crouching down not more than 20 paces away, and waited. Already the fire was burning finely and the silhouetted outllno of the but waa plain against the glow of It Ills plan was a good ono. The Inside the hut would have no choice and, probably, no thought but of escape. When they rushed out, as they almost certainly would, bewlld ered and confused, and plainly visible to him against the glow of tbe Ore be hind them, It would be easy, from the safe shelter of tbe darkness, to shoot the man. It was only, Indeed, by tbe merest hair's breadth that Roscoe's plain failed to work. Tbe Jnstlnct of es cape by the nearest wsy from a burn Ing bulldlng'ls almost Irresistible, and It led Philip and Jeanne to tbe very edge of the destruction, which Roscoe had planned for them. Cayley had his hand upon the bolt of the great door, whither he bad sprung when Jeanne's cry had awak ened him, before the saving second thought stayed him and held blm frozen where he was. For perhaps Ave seconds he stood there, while the memory of the unexplained bullet hole he had found In the body of the great bear, and the belated observation that the fire, which was destroying the hut, must have been started outside of it fire-woo- fair-size- f he could already make out the bung figure that was ard them on all sham- - Mm coming along to four. "Why does be move in, that queer prt of wayr she whispered. They had shrunk back into the fcadow pide Jhe of the hut. the girl actually vestibule and Cayley on of the door-etep- . He's been wounded. When I waa mrhead I could make out the blood bios on his side, and he was leaving track on the Ice. "Wounded In a fight with another teur that's not likely." asked no further explanation, it Hipped Into the hut The next poment she was back with the fteld- "No, She I'asies. "While you're attending to the she said In a whisper. "I'll Just Fep watch un the beach for for any fae else." The past weeks had made one dif- erence In her attitude toward Cayley "ico she was now aware of, as ahe , wasted her sensations on seeing iR HeFlred "Hp aten forward, out of the shelter ipaula we hut, to confront the bear, with hut 8 she had exDerlenced when he That's why I sent you into the Pork,?. aet out on a similar errand once It occurred to me that he might be ore. She knew him now. and she following the bear, and that the lighthim a chance no fear for him. The feeling ed windows might give t thrilled her now was nearer akin for a shot at one of us. No matter what superstitious fears he has, he Pride than anything else. could hardly be too mucn arraiawew meCyley fully Justified ber confidence. hap. us from a safe distance, if at la vuumu i iuo uuttr was tuning umu . fiVe brought htm within 2ti vnrds of nenpd to offer a fair mark. "tint we must have offered him that eir door-steWhen he first caught "ht of Cayley he stopped, in two a hundred times in the last weens, had anything like nlnds, apparently, whether to be that Is, if hla rifle "inted or to do the hunting himself. a modern range. "That bullet Is certainly a modern rien, as Cayley advanced upon him of ordnance," said Cayley. 'Its father at hissed piece he decided, slowly, Mm and venomously and reared up. E down on a shelf and went laid Ha it He enough was already badly to wash the stains storeroom Into the ounded to have taken all the fight his hands. from "ft of any other sort of animal, but of the encounter "Its only one said. he ail." "Aftar alive as he was. he cost Cayley llf know that I don't 'our mora mvsterv. and cartridges. Three of those shots differmake great any can more one iyley was reasonably sure must have of life, our way atered a vital spot. The first one ence. Not In to the bear between the eyes as he rUlner. Tha second was fired into Both tried to stick to tbat view w bl 7 prob-ll)Ir and. for the present, to dismiss was open mouth. The third from deflected by the massive fore conjecture upon the new topic succeed not did but they his across minds, their which he was holding itself tody. In the attitude of a boxer. The very well. The Idea that forced 'urth nhnt hnwAver penetrated hia upon them, in spite of their attempt to Roscoe's acquiJtooat and probably smashed one of discredit it, was that weapon two first vertebrae, for It seemed sition of a modern, brine tha mnnitcr down 8.11 in 8 with ammunition to match rtld not taan. Whora ha flnnllv lov of til PflV- - date back to the iurder of Captain or 'ey could have reached him with his Mnui. nnr to the disappearance the found had he foot. that the Aurora, but cnanv-c- , "Good nhnntnrH aoM tha clrl nillet- by some strange a day within vo5 recently, perhaps ''rom the little vestibule. thought. a was disquieting Me relnnitnit It two. Inttlncr or ravnlvar. tha e empty shells drop unheeded on 8tnewas in e Ice at hla time for Cayley to turn foot, lie cave the wean- evening her to begin Jeanne t0 016 8'rl nd beDt VCr th8 and for bear alone, but before that happened amount of attenrhey Ira lnqa ltt.oatat In what I did paid w extra their doors and of J? tlnV' he said, "than In what be got tion W the security r. " ina enemy who first attacitea WU waBs HUle before 11 o'clock him.' out of a .deep --Jeep The llpVlf 1nnal VlinA SO that when Cayley came h" could see were two or three to find her bending ow "eular dark stains upon the white him by the shoulder T. A l t,. Manlr ' which hit name. war," u. ,l. :e soft-nose- d long-rang- e . UMWJ f jlU Too 8oon. Philip had been enjoying, he was. again, the very man who, during those long years of exile, had domluated crew and captain of the Walrus and bent them to his will. He was returning from the ledge along the crown of the glacier, when, ou the day of this discovery, he found that his accustomed path was Interrupted by a new Assure In the Ice; it had occurred since he had come that way In the morning, and was too broad to leap across. So he was forced to descend by the rougher and more difficult track which lay along the moraine. Before he had gone three paces out along this track his eye made lita and off his Just patch something, tle below It. which caused him at first to utter a snarl of anger, but led him the next moment to give a wild yell of Joy. The great fissure which had opened in the Ice nad done, in an msium, what the party from the Aurora had failed to do after hours of hard labor It had yielded up the body of Perry which, during an tnese Hunter, months, it had kept imprisoned. stmnned across the dead man s shoulders, Just where he had carried it In life, was a rifle and around bis middle a belt full of cartridges. Tha next instant Roscoe was bend ing over the body, Jerking savagely at the frozen buckles which resisted tbey were his Impatient fingers. But were clumnot to be denied. If they were strong. sy, the hands It was not five minutes later when belt in Roscoe, rifle and ammunition on toward his was hurrying hands, bis Jus cave once more. The body lay had lert where bis desecrating hands tar CHAPTER XX. 1 A Moonlit 0y. The midday moon had changed the somber purple of the snow to sliver. The snow lay everywhere, save upon the vertical face of the cliff Itself, an unreut, Immaculate niantlo over all this arctic world. The valley, the a hlllt. the beach and the frozen all lay at peace beneath It, as If asleep or dead. To Cayley, w here he lay,, suspended In mldtiky, the moonlight gleaming upon the sensitive fabric of hi planes, aa It gleams upon the faint ripples on a mill pond In the dead of some June night-- to Cayley this white, sleeping, frozen world looked very far away. He was a wing for tha first time since that eternity ago when he had descended upon tbe beach beside Jeanne to warn her of tbe approach of the bear. How long ago that was, by tbe measure of hours and days and weeks, he did not know. He had no data for an estimate that would be better than a guess. He remembered bow desperately tbey had worked that night, saving what they could from the burning but and carrying It back Into the cave; remembered with what labor he and Jeanne bad climbed the Ice chimney to the only shelter that now remained to them, the little pilot bouse observatory upon the cliff head; re membered the unremitting labor of uncounted hours while they adjusted their way of life to the conditions Imposed by the calamitous loss of the hut. ' But after that there were lapses of time which memory did not rover. During that time he knew the ut most fury of the arctic winter had been raging over them, without cessation. Tbey had been sheltered from It down In the heart of the great drift of snow which the storm bad heaped about them. But even In this security the shock of those successive paroxysms of nature's titanic rage reached down and benumbed them, body and 1 1 St . ' i ! t I t ! ' r t'i i soul. 7V I much with a rifle; and he remember ed tbe deadly revolver ahooilug h had seen upon tbe body of the Also,, be would have to go Into the dark, with the firelight behind him. No. It wouldn't do. He must wa!t. Well, he could afford to wait mub better than tbey could. Reluctantly he rime, turned bs broad back to the gale, and began making his laborious way back to the cave. It was high time. Ills face was frozen already. The Intensity of the cold had already rendered his rifle i of useless, for the whole the breech was frozen fast. Hla stratagem had fulled In Its ultimate intention, for nature had laid her great Icy hand upon the board and for tho present declared the game a draw, "This Air Will Bring faltered, It is true, and his knees trembled beneath him, and yet, slow ly and with many pauses he made bis way forward. He was horribly afraid all the time, but curiosity was all the while fear. He was not more than 200 yards away when Cayley alighted beside tbe girl. At what he saw then, Roscoe dropped his rifle, on tbe beach, with a whispered oath, and rubbed his eyes. The light which diffused itself from the open window of tbe but was not much, but It was enough to reveal the this fact that this great man-bird- , golden-wingespirit which had kept blm in terror for his own sanity all these months, was taking off his wings and folding them up Into a bundle, in a way as If he were as matter-of-fac- t furling an umbrella. He stood there now, Just an ordinary human figure of a man; the very man, In fact that he had seen before and would have killed long ago had it not been for bis terror of the thing with wings. v . He presented a fair mark now, and was In easy range, but Roscoe was too astonished to seize tbe opthoroughly U In a moment It was and had he that portunity, was uninjured; The rifle of course, gone again. The two figures shrank , though a at glance, seen of its breech was Into the shadow of the hut and the .11 the mechanism half hour's hard next moment the light disappeared. a But For a moment, an accession of Jor" witn cleaning rod and rag. of c d g You Back to Life." articulated themselves Into a perfectly clear perception of Roscoe's plan. "The other way! The other way!" he cried, motioning Jeanne back through the storeroom. "Into the cave. He Is waiting for us outside. That's why he fired the hut. Quick. We must save all we can." And so It happened that Roscoe waited In vain. He saw the blaze he had kindled reach Its fiery climax, and then in spite of tho Icy gale which was fanning It, die down Into an angry, sullen, smouldering glow. But no man appeared to furnish a mark for his waiting rifle, and no woman was delivered defenseless, shelterless, Into his brutish hands. The failure of his plan brought back a moment or two of the old superstitious horror, but-hi- s mind was braced against it now and did not readily give way. Somehow, the failure must be accountable humanly accountable. At last he solved this mystery, too, partly solved It, at least, for he remembered the Ice(cave back of the hut His first Impulse, when he thought of it was to attack them there and now, to charge In over the red hot coals of the hut and settle matters once and for all. He was sane enough to see that tha advantage would be all against him. In close quarters he could An But at last the rage of tbe storm bad spent Itself and had become still. Tbe bitterness of the cold relaxed and became milder. Cayley bad felt tbe blood stirring In his veins again, tbe power of consecutive thought and the ambition to live, coming once more Into his possession. He bad gone to work, feebly and drowsily at first, but with constantly increasing energy and strength, at tbe task of opening up, once more, the tunnel tnrougn tne drift which the great storm had choked. When be had broken through the outer crust of the drift and the white radiance of tbe midday moon shone Into tbe black tunnel where he had been working, be stood for a moment drawing deep breaths and gazing over the scene which lay beneath his eyes. He hastened back Into the little pilot house. Jeanne was dozing upon a heap of bear-skinHe roused her with some difficulty; really waktng up bad been hard matter lately, almost as hard as really getting off to sleep. She was still drowsy when he led her along the tunnel to the cliff head. "Breathe deep," he told her. "We were half poisoned In there. This air will bring you back to life again, It and the moonlight." He had been supporting ber with bis arm about her waist, but now, as she held herself a little Btratghter and he could feel her lungs expanding with the pure air she breathed, be withdrew the arm and let her stand alone. Even the white moonlight re vealed the color that was coming back Into ber cheeks. For a while she did not speak at all; then, as If replying to a comment of bis, she said: Hut, "Yes, it's beautiful. Philip, it's dead. Dead." "Not this air that has ozone spar kling all through it It Is alive enough to make your blood dance. It's doing that now." He tried to persuade her to take a little exreclse along the length of tbe tunnel, but she demurred to that. Instead, she asked him to bring out some bear skins and let her sit there at the cliff-bealooking out. And," she supplemented, "if yoi want to know what I should like most of all, It would be to have you bring, your wings so that I can see you flythat T can ing again, and a field-glas- s watch you through." He felt some hesitation, partly out of a fear of leaving her and partly his own from a doubt concerning strength; but neither of these reason was one he cared to avow. So he unfurled the bundle that had lain disused so long, spread and tightened and tested it, and at last, with a nod of farewell to the girl, dived off tbe i r i lY s. . I 1 i I , ( ... d i ill : cliff-hea- Any doubt he may have had con- cerning his strength disappeared at once. The mere touch of those great wings of his seemed to bring it all back, and hope and Joy and confidence along with it (TO BE COKaUNUKO.) 'IV -- |