The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-14

| human voices coming up through the fog.
lie was under no delusion as TO tho dam
| ger OF the thing he contemplated. y dive
| INTO water OF uncertai In depth and bottom
was safe in comparison, because water
would check the downward rush of the
entering body; its Duoyancy would offer
means OF returning to the air again.
The log had had no more supporting
power than the air Itself. II was a mask
across the face of danger. and that was
all. But there were men down there,
men he had set out 10 save; so. with
long, steadily breath or two he allowed
himself TO go drifting down.
The secret OF Fog lake which had
oanled Captain Fielding and the Walrus
people alike was simple enough. once one
knew 1t, An immense gcyscr, spoutinS
steam and hot water from somewhere too
iar down In the bowels of the earth for
10 poiGS od or the equator ee to make
ley with warm moist air, which the colder
air above constantly condensed and con-
stanty precipitated. The situation was
lakes, where the warmer and lighter Wa
ter is at the bottom. held there. and bal
anced as II were, by the heavier and
colder water upon the surface. The sides
OF the valley were granite. polished to an
almost CLASSY surface by the constant
drip of the film OF water which triclsled
down It's sides. or anything like Vege-
tation In this dismal place. there was no
sign whatever. The bottom OF H. an
area OF TWO square miles. perhaps, was
scored with deep canals and interlaclng
ridges.
Before Caylcy could make out the fig
ures OF the men below him. he heard a
sudden cry of terror, and checked his
descent, The voice had cried out In "A
foreign tongue. sounding like Spanish.
understand,
The Angel o.. Deathy" It cried. "I
VIII confesS-confess everything
And tnen as swiftly, in that same sbi-
lant. explosive tongue. the confession
poured forth-a confession now so amply
justified by what had happened since,
y q NJ TATas Ha.N-tA l,,tN
there, now rising a little, now flying
but always with the portentous shadow
Of those great dark wings OF his spread
out above the terrified Portuguese and
his only less frightened companions.
They told Caylcy afterward that when
he had finished speakIng-he had made
face like n blind man or a somnam-
bulist, and before he could he prevented,
walked straight off the edge of the mar
row ridge where they were standing. He
went down without u cry, without Il
sound. Whatever his reward was to be.
he had gone TO II.
When Cayley succeeded in finding a
spot where he could alight. and. at the
same time, afford some prospect of enabling
him to take wing again, he found grouped
around him, little knot Of men, only
withheld from flight by the fiat fmpos-
sibility OF It, who gazcd at him as IL they
more than half-beIicved that he was in
decd the Destroying Angel which Miguel
had declared him.
But Warner. the captain OF the yacht
and leader OF the party, was Il man OF
well-balanced common sense, and he soon
recovered from his surprise sufficiently
to discuss with the new arrival the best
means of trying 10 find Il way out With
out Gayley and his wings such thing
would have been almost impossible.
Aided by his ability to fly up through the
loS and take occasional observations in
the clear air there was some hope that
the thing might be done.
It was done at last. Their progress
was slow and infinitely laborous. espe
eially for Cayley, for the air in this deep
he rose through It 1t was by main
strength, n strength which the great
knotted muscles OF his shoulders back
ertion OF producing.
1t was just after sunset when they fin |
ally stood on the crest of that little ridge |
under, Mlguels guidance, disappearing
into the fog.
Down on the crest of the glacier, stm
the relief party. Go down TO them as
quickly as you can" he said 'and then |
make all possible haste back TO the
They left him some ships biscuit and
bacon. and set out down the well-marked |
!. trail toward the glacier, He had told
that now at least his duty toward them |
was done, He would rest awhile and then |
enjov long. calm sail across the ice
and sea to Point Barrow.
There was no fog in the great valley |
along whose edge the glacier lay and ne |
thought when he took wing that he would |
be able to get a last view of the yacht |
and make sure that she was stin safe, |
before he started.
SO, when he crossed the great line OF
cliffs which formed the coast he was both |
surprised and disappointed TO find a |
dense gray cloud OF vapor obliterating |
everything. II was all quiet enough down |
there, though. They were all right. There |
couldn't be any doubt OF that
1t made him shuddcr now as he sat |
there at the feet of the girl who slept |
so quietly-as he sat there and listened |
TO her slow. steady breathing. it made
him shudder to think how nearly. for |
second time that day, he had abandoned |
her. What if that terrified cry of hers |
had gone unheardr What If Roscoe
He sat stiffly erect and rubbed his eyes