Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-08-31

You can't mean that And leave you
to face that monster unaxrned-'
Il shall have the only weapon kha<
wliA De or any service to me- my Knife.
It's got to be done at close quarxers. I
couldn't possibly shoot him from the
air But II / can alight near him and
come up within striking distance he
VIII have no chance with me- not with
all his strength"
No., she said resolufely, II won't
let you &c. Not that way
Listen, Jeanne. II can fiud him
can kill him. Do you know uyhat the
movements Of ordinary nsn. even un-
usually quick men, look like to me?
Like the motions of msrionettes. The
only chance Roscoe has against me Is
OF picking me on at long range with
his rifle He could do that whether
mad the revolver or not. And II he did:
II ne killed me and had the revolver.
tnen-weu, then he would come here
and find you-defenseless. Don't vou
see2 l couldn't take the revolver.
should be unnerved with terror from
the moment l left you"
With a sob she clasped her arms
about his neck and held him tirht.
Then, tragic submission. they
dropped away.
without saying anything more Cay
ley blew out the candle. opened the
door into the tunnel and took up his
furled wings. With trembling hands
she helped him spread them and draw
them taut.
As he adjusted the straps across his
shoulders he felt her hands again upon
his head, felt them clasp behind his
neck.
.'Good-by," she said.
He was trembling all over, as her
hands were. but 1t was not with fear.
Il shall come back safe" he said.
Nothing can harm me tonight"
He pulled her up close in his enfold-
ing arms and kissed her mouth. In an
instant he turned and dived on tho
cliff-head into the night.
He headed up into the wind. and
hung for moment soaring upon. a
fairly steady current of air, that
poured along parallel to the cliff.
He was still tingling with excise-
ment, with triumph, with a sort Of fcv
which he hardly yet dared contemplate,
over that wonderful last hour of his
with Jeanne.
But now that he was out Of her pres
enee this excitement expressed itself,
as it commonly did with him, in a sort
of exaggerated coolness. When he told
her that nothing could harm him to-
night he was not guilty of mere
lovers exaggeration. 1t was quite
true that with body and mind tuned.
as they were now. to their very highest
pitch-with every faculty at the utter
most reach of its powers. ready and
waiting to be called upon-nothing was
likely to be able to harm him.
His original plan had been to follow
Roscoe up the beach to the cave. In
the hope of overtaking him. laden with
their stores, and settling matters. out
Of hand. then and there.
But a moment later he rejected that
plan, for a better one. He lowered in
a sharp spiral up 500 feet higher, into
that velvet, spangled sky. swept across
the crest of the cliff. and sailing
thwartwise to the breeze which re
found on that side, he went glancing-
down the valley toward the glacier,
with the velocity almost Of an arrow.
The snow mantle which covered the
world beneath was glazed with an icy
crust, and in the starlight 1t glowed
with the milky iridescent gray OF an
enormous pearl
From the glacier where ice pinnaeles
pierced the snow, there glinted tiny
twinkling lights Of sapphire
When he reached the glacier he
checked his speed a little. ana slantsd
down to an altitude of not more than
200 or 800 feet above the crest He
hardly expected a glimpse of Roscoe
Sc soon. having no reason to think he
would be here. but he began scanning
the earth's surface closely wiz
idea Of accustenning his eyes 20 th9
light and the distance. Yet It WIS asslk
his eyes. but his sensitive nostrils
which gave him his first hint Of the
probable whereabouts of the man he
was looking for
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