The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-25

this track his eve made ont 'soes along
1ust OH his path and little below it,
which caused him at first to utter a
snari OF anger, but led him the next mo-
ment TO give wild blasphemous veil of
The great tfssure which had opened
the party from the Aurora had failed
TO do after hours of hard labor-It had
y,sidsd wsIas di,;. up the body of Perry Hunter.
,Sant ,mn,eh; curing all these months, 1t had
The sight of 1t was no new thing to
Roscoe Flo had seen IL a score OF times,
TTr.ee Thn e,He Eeep pa down @ in that eternal Ice.
long AS no ghosts came back to haunt
MIN, he could survey the murdered body
o. H,n one 20, OF his victims with no more emo
stniiar circumstances. But that the ice,
which had apparently meant 10 keep It
forever; should discharge II, thus. era :
moekery on the part Of the the envious M sutt,Vf devil
which Rsf he he twt9rsIhipped tnsI,Ippp for a god,
OF ono brief glance. and then changed to
n saturnine joy. For. strapped ncross
the dead mans shoulders. just where
he had carried It In life, was a rifle
ridges.
The next instant Roscoe was bending
over the body, Jerking savagely at the
frozen buckles which resisted his impa-
tient fingers. But they would not be
denied. II they were clumsy, the hands
were strong.
Roscoe, rifle and ammunition belt In his
Eands. was hurryinG on toward his cave
once more. The body lay just where his
dcsecTating hands had left il.
| The rifle was uninjured, that he had
seen at glance: though, of course, all
the mechanism OF its brccch was frozen
fast: But a half hours hard work with
cleaning rod and rags of what once had
been shirt. sufficed to put it into com
| mission again.
Then, with the rifle over his shoulder
| he staggered out OF the cave With
| his first glance abroad. he started. His
devil was being kind to him today. There
could be no doubt Of that. Only. was
! he being too kind? Roscoe wondered
q little uncasily. For, shamblng along
the ice. through the thlckening twilight.
not hundred PAGES away, was big
pear. Roscoe was tired OF walrus meat.
| The thought OF a bear steak made his
mouth water.
Three years dsuse. however. had made
his craftsmanship uncertain. He fired
| the only effect his shot had was to make
the bear turn about and go stumbling
down the glacier toward the beach, with
ungainly haste. Roscoe hurried after
him and fired two more shots. Whether
they hit or not. he could not tell. Ger
| tainly they did not serve 10 check the
| bears flight. The next moment he had
rounded the corner OF the cliff and dis
appeared down the beach in the direc-
tion OF the hut.
| Roscoe hesitated. but only for a mo-
ment. then, with oath. he set out in
pursuit. IT was not so much the protec-
| tion which the rifle afforded him that
was responsible for this new courage
as il was that the mere feel OF il in his
hands brought him back in touch once
more with tho everyday matter Of fact
world. and made his visions and ghosts
seem little unreal
1t was fully dark down here in the
shadow OF the cliff. The numbering yell
low shape Of the bear was indistin-
gushablc against tho ley beach. That
we'll enough by the bloody tracks the
wounded beast had left.
The last of the twilight was still IN
rected thither, looking for something
which he told himself could not pos
sibly exist, except in his own fancy. yet
fully expected TO see nevertheless, the
shadow OF Cayley's great wings. And
at last he saw il impending in the lower
air, like brooding. spirit, Just above
the tiny square OF light which marked
the location OF the hut,
Roscoe abandoned his pursuit OF the
bear: all thought of it, In fact. was gone
from his mind; but he did not. as on a
former occasion. drop down prone upon
the ground his face buried In his arms
nor did he turn and flee Hike one has
ridden up the beach He laltered II Is
true and his knees trembed beneath
him. and yet. slowly and with many
Dauses he made his way forward
lie was horribly afraid all the time
but curiosity was all the "nlle overpowo poo
erlup fear He was not moro than Two
hundred yards away when Cayley allsn'eu
beside the girl. ,,
At what he saw then, Roscoe dropped
his rifle on the beach, with Whispered
oath and rubbed his eyes. Ihe lghI
which diffused itself from the open WIN
dow OF the hut was not much; put y
was enough TO reveal the Iact that this
great man-bIrd, this golden winged spirit
which had kept him In terror for MS owl W.
sanity all these months. was taking OF o..
! his wings and was folding tnenl np ni,e ag
if he were furling an umbrella: lie s'ood
there now. just an ordinary human ny
ure of a man; the very man, I'LL i ira 90
| that nc had seen before ano "ould nay
| icillcd long ago had II not been lor uI2
overemagtering terror OF the thing win
wings, ,, ro- and
was In easy range. but Roscoe was TOO
| Thoroughly astonished 10 seize the oppor.
tunity. and in o moment IL was s9no
again. Tho two figures shranK lnto NE une
ment the light disappeared ,,a. .,,o
When Cayley fred for the ilrst tiine,
at the bear, Roscoe thGmshI ,,t i1 thc veno-
| Nous hiss with which the wounded oeaSt
nnswered emv the shot explained the situa-
zion. Roscoe squattieed 90 d1Tn tMImk,ng' o'
In the light OF what he had Just seen
tho cxnlanation Of the thing which hau
so puzzled and terrified MN netno"v ~ ,.cSrs
| most ludlcrously eimnlc. During the a.
that had elapsed since any news ol lne
civilized world had conc to nm ,ahinc soi,ie and
body had invented q flying 1nacntn'' a"'
| Ihis fellow happened 10 nave one. -
even oeeTrsa, sG,on to af a9sfGe i%e 'npe
Sou'o ;s,,t he able 10 use il himself
might after killing the man and lavgr, avMc
| the girl, be able TO terminate MS 'N"'
He had no doubt az all, now lhat In, IN
mystery was solved and the IS'f%, ;n,o his
| tbe+ these two were delivered ilto la la
hards Even without the rifle ne Wou,n 10
have felt sure Of mat Tish f!e had ID only
! tnl',,n " n,,,nre he was and keep watcn
Until the man should come ,iih,G ON OF casy asg
hut. He could crawl up 10 NJ wio''ii Nm
ranre and one shot would settle MN,
's1 Ent before an hour had passed; ;aG egrto1 obH
| Disadvantages about this PIN ""-
truded themselves upon Roscoe.
The wind was rising and the Ieihperr per-
turc falling steadily, There Wac Nic- y,,n.
| Sndioation that the first OF tnel. plS n, W.
| tar sforn,s was about to begin, dho' cNei