Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-01
Continues From Yesterday

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The frozen air which ne had been
drawing deep into his lungs was odor-
less. save for the family acrid sug-
gestion Of ozone about it-a thing, by
the way, which he was puzzled to
account for, unless 1t presaged some
titanic electrical display in the sky.
But the odor which now invaded
his f~astidious nostrils automatically
checked his flight. He tilted back his
planes and his momentum sent him
towering almost vertically aloft. He
did not analyze it-not that first in
slant, but his sensation was the same
one that makes a dog suddenly throw
UP its head and snarl, bristling.
In q moment he knew that it was
smoke, the smoke of nc clean, spark
ling wood fire, but of smoulder1ng
bones and the flesh of some animal.
Slowly he began to descend in the
sweeping circles of a great spiral, con-
stantly searching with an eagerness,
which amounted almost to an agony.
for the point of angry red which would
tell him where his enemy was to be
found. He had no doubt at all that
his enemy was there. The man who
had laid that fire was likely to be
sleeping beside it.
He was within twenty feet of the
level of the ice before his little mirror
of conclave silver caught the CLEAN
of red that he was looking for.
He threw his head back sharply and
- "a IT, N4,,1l MT ann fhn fro
itself-that must be hidden behind the
great rock which almost blocked the
entrance to what must be the cav
The CLEAN he had caught in his mir
ror lac been reflected in turn from
the cleaning surface of q mass of ice
a little farther out.
He slanted away again, searching
now for a level place to allght, found
it within a hundred yards of the cave
mouth, circled once completely round.
to make sure that he could not be sur
prised in the act of getting clear of his
wings, and a m later came down
soundlessly, except with a faint slither
of his planes, upo the ice.
He bounded almost instantly to his
feet, slipped his knife out of his belt
and held the haft of 1t between his
teeth while he furled his planes. That
done, he deposited the bundle in the
angle of a projecting rock, and stealth
lily made his way toward the ave
mouth.
The plan which most naturally sug-
gested itself of bearing away from 1t a
little and attempting to get a glimpse
into the interior from q safe distance
first, he rejected in favor Of a more
audacious, but probably not more dan
gerous one.
He skirted the rock, which partially
blocked the mouth of the ave, as
closely as possible, intent on rounding
the corner and appearing suddenly
within what he hoped might be almost
striking distance of the mar he sought.
OF course he did not know where
Roscoe was; could not even be ure
thai he was in the cave at all, though
he felt very little doubt of that. But
he reflected that while Roscoe's POSI-
ton might surprise him-his position
would surprise Roscoe even more. He
was sure that he was quicker than
Roscoe, and better able to seize the
advantage In an unforeseen situation.
At the very edge of the shelter af-
forded by the roc he paused for an
instant; then, with every nerve tuned
to the highest pitch-with every muscle
in q state of supple relaxation, yet in
stantly ready for n demand that
might be made upon 1.-THE stepped
round the corner and into the mouth
OF the ave.
Probably no apparition of the monster
he expected to find there-no sight of
him towering expectant, armed, antici-
pating all that Cayley hoped to do, and
ready to Illustrate it. could have been
so terrifying to Philip as the thing
he actually saw, which was-nothing.
At least, so far as a first glance into
the cave would reveal, his enemy was
not there.
For a full minute Cayley stood mo-
tioniess, staring into the smoky. waver-'