The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-18
BY Henry Ketcholl Webster, An
thor with Samuel Merwin) Of
Calumet K.''

were getting very scanty now. Today:
allowance was gone. although 1t was MOI
yet three In the afternoon.
She looked aloft for CayIey but could
not see him Then. the next moment
she heard the whine of the air through
| his rigging. and he sailed down on a lone
| slant and alighted beside her.
He got clear OF his planes with an un-
accountable air OF haste. ana held out
% What Hui do we eeP Do hsi With rise sent,nes who
a laugh
81 wasn't asleep" she said contritely
thinking-' She paused there. then
of the court?"
and was handing them TO her
The sentence Is that you shall be
frightened with a bear story. There's a
big one coming down the beach after you
der the revolver TO me and stay under
arrest in the hut until after 1 have
killed him"
She did not need to be told that he was
went with his words. She turned about
quickly and looked up the beach. sighting
along Cayley's arm os he pointed. Even
In the deep twilight she could already
make out the shambling rgure that was
coming along toward them on all fours.
Why does he move In that queer sort
ol way SHe Whispered.
They had shrunk back into the shadow
of the hut. the girl actually inside OF the
Vestibule and Cayley on the doorstep.
He's been wounded. When I was
overhead ] could make out the blood
stains on his side. and he was leaving a
track on the ice."
Wounded In a fight with another
oear?"
She asked no further explanation. but
slipped into the hut. The next moment
she was back with the field glasses.
While you're attending to the bear"
watch up the beach for-for any one
The past weeks had made one differ
ence IN her attitude toward Cayley which
she was now aware Of as she contrasted
her sensations on seeing Philip step for
ward. out OF the shelter of the hut. TO
confront the bear, with those she had eN-
perienced when he had set out on a SIM
liar errand once before, She knew him
now: and she had no fear for him. The
feeling that thrilled her now was nearer
akin 10 pride than anything else.
Cayley fully justified her confidence:
The course the bear was taking would
have brought him within twenty yards OF
their doorstep. When he first caught
sight OF Cayley he stopped In two minds,
apparently, whether TO be hunted or 10
do the hunting himself Then, as Cayley
advanced upon him rather slowly, he de-
clded, hissed at him vepomously and
reared up.
He was already badly enough wounded
TO have taken all the fight out of any
other sort OF animal but half alive as he
was, he cost Cayley four cartridges.
Three of those shots Cayley was reason
ably sure must have entered a vital spot,
The first one took the bear between the
eyes as he was rising The second was
fired into his open mouth. The third was
DETECTED by the massive fore
paw which he was holding across hrs
body In the attitude of boxer. The
fourth shot. however, penetrated his
throat and probably smashed one Of the
two first vertebrae, for II seemed TO bring
the mons er down all In a heap, where he
finally lay still. Cayley could have
Good shooting" said the girl quietly
from the little vestIbule.
He RELOADED the revolver. letting the
empty shells drop UNDECIDED on the Ice at
her feet. He gave the wapon back 10 the
girl, and bent over the bear.
I'm less interested in what ! did to
him. he said, than In what he got from
.hs enemy who FIRST attacked him"
re could see were two or three irregular
lark stains upon the white fur. A wound
n the flank, which none of Cayleys shots |
,ould have accounted for, he explored |
Watching him as he did so. the girl |
ould see that he had found something |
something whlcn surprised |
!im greatly, And there was more than
.
n his voice when he spoke 10 her He
fered no explanation. Merely told her
o go Into the hut and make fast the
old wooden shutters over the windows.
fe would come in and would tell her
'hat II was all about, In a moment
The girl had hardly finished the task
e had given her. when he came In In /
is blood stained hand he was holding II
ut some thing for her inspection. II
Conquering a feeling OF repugnance, she II
ent over the hand. cast one glance at II
he thing IT contained and then started
p and gazed. wide eyed, into his face.
"A bullet! she said, "But-but we
1ought that Roscoe wasn't armed-not
18th fire arms. I mean"
Cayley nodded But this seems to be
'hy sent you into the hut II occurred
} me that he might be Following the
ear: and thar the lighted windows might
I've him q chance for n shot at one of
S. No matter what superstitious fenas
e has. he could hardly be too much
'rasd to fire at us from a safe distance
we happened to offer a fair mark"
But we must have offered him that n
Indred times In the last weeks. that is
bis rifle had anything like modern
inge."
THAT bullet Is certainly a modern
ece of ordnance" said Cayley Its
ft-nosed and steel-jackete6."
He laid IL down on a shelf and went
to the store-room tc wash the STAINS
the encounter from his hands
AFTER all he said. ITS only one more
ystery. and don't know thar one moro h
IN make any great difference. Not In
IT way ot life. certainly
Both tried TO stick that rtow Of