The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-18
The Sky Man

he might be then, when he took "a IN,
ar ne became. at once, almost as unrea
u,han -, ,au @ peen on mat first night OF al
%men %nein ne mad descended upon the not
beside her She had not been exarrer,
atllS Wnen she told him that when sh.
| saw Hlnl IN night lie did not seem a mar
spirit. euaiuidr
There was a thrill OF joy in that feel.
lng' TOO, although il added 10 her senss
m tbs 'Vih,c,,nSss' ,ho,s,s, gut the pain came with
mss further than the background of he,
,nlhd, tna' she had chained that spirit te
tinys thH earea a she with her human limita.-
TO Keep Cayley from suspecting the ex,
lstence of this feeling. She never re- :
lerred to 1t during the long hours they
p[h' trsd ss IN woI conversation together and she
utterly irom her own thoughts But This
!ast was Impossible. It was alyavs hid :
cen there' mewhere, and when she
she was most acutely conscious Of -rhora
were times when she could moi bear 70
Watch hlm at all, and IL was always n
rehel When the wings were furled and
put away ana he was just a man once
more and comrade
Conrade: at least, was the word she
nad settled upon 10 designate the rela-
ton that existed between them II did
not altogether cover the ground IN lie
sure. but tentatively, and for temporary
purposes II was. perhaps more comfort
aoIe than word or phrase would have
been that possessed the merit of greater
accuracy. And yet when alone as she
was now, she INDUCED in speculating how
sne should frame that more accurate
phrase, should necessity arise for doing
So
AS IL to make UP for the kaleidoscopIc
character of those three first incredible
GAYS OF her acquaintance with Cayley,
DAYS which had changed the meaning and
ihe value, of all that had entered into her
NE oefort-as II 10 compensate for that
experience, the weeks which had rassed
since then had slipped away in an almost
unbroken routine. There were occasional
reminders of Roscoe's existence and a few
unlmportant discoveries Of articles Of use
either in the cave or observatory A
furious snow-storm had raged for a week
nut FOR as long again. These were the
only incidents TO break the routine
Ihey sun divided their days as they
mad set out TO do upon Cayley's dlscov-
cry OF the tracks Of an unknown man In
the snow They kept watch and watch"
as the sailors say. the two OF them never
sleeping at the same time.
But II the time had gone monotonously.
Il had slipped away wonderfully fast. She
had not been bored nor melancholy in
deed. she and Cavley had both been too
busy for that forlorn indulgence There
was an Incredible nunrber of things TO do,
ence 10 their comfort and security, tina,
what they had to resist was a feverish
haste and an attempt 10 get everything
zone at once; And she was generally so
tired when IL came time TO call Caylev
at midnight for the beginning Of his
watch. that she slept Ike child, untfi
eight O'Clock the next morning. when an |
)ther days work began
There was always something delicious |
'bout that part of the dav. The fact that |
'he and Cayley were together only for |
hose eight hours made il possible to |
,ondense their companionship to rather
ll2her tension ia nrIi in ayI1,
or people who are always in each others
company.
But still. she said to herself as she Law
here on the bear-skn, gazing up. laGily. !
u the soaring creature that seemed so .
Unrelated 10 the man who was the sub
ect Of her thoughts but still compan-
onship was the word for II. He had NOT
nado love to her: he had never repeated j