The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-14
Copyrighted 1910 by the Century Company
Copyrighted 1909-1Oby the Success Company

How nearly those wings OF his had be-
trayed him again. How narrowly had he
missed throwing away this second OPP
| portunity.
When he had taken wing from the lee
Hoe that morning IL had been with the
| perfectly definite intention OF making the
| long straight Hight oil iive hundred miles
10 Point Barrow, lie remembered now
how he had phrased the thought. lie
| wanted 10 blow the last contamination OF
| humanity out of himself. He was done
| with men. Even the girls OBTAINING toucn
| he had brushed on almost fcartully. The
| feeling he found slipping into his mine
| regarding her the force of her challenge
| 20 return to the world again drove hlm.
| by rcvulslon. farther than The credulous.
| unfounded suspicion OF the Two men.
| lie meant to so. He would have gone
! At any rate have started, had not a small
| ming checked him. the most Vagraut Ci
| lature's caprices, a SHIFT In the direction
! of the wind,
In order 10 steer the course he wanted.
he must lily higher, and in gaining that
necessary altitude, up long. easy
gradient he cut i great circle inland.
| Circling thus he found himself. presently,
| looking straight down upon the shore
| party from the yacht
OF Hight had stcadied him, as ii always
did lie was so far above them there. so
| completely, detached from them, that
| there could be no harm in soaring for a
while and watching them. That was the
way, at least, thai he had explained his
nafing G done SO at the time, He would
OF that girls hand upon his arm had
anything to do with 1t
He went on watching them with q
quickly enlivencd curiosity. when no saw
that the man who acted as guide TO the
score OF people from the yacht was clad
In skins as the party OF men had been
who had murdered Hunter. OF that mur-
der. these people who were following him.
OF course, knew nothing.
Where In the world Cayley wondered.
could he be guiding them Well. there
q
So he hung there. lazily. for two or
three hours. in the bright. capricious air;
with the tolling little clump of men be
low him, who struggled on so slowly. so
ludicrously slowly, from one ridges chest
10 the next
the two Fanshaws-hc thought Very
charges. and their insults faded out
But the girl kept her place: She would
always keep her place, he imagined, IN
his memories, He went over, in minute
detail, the hour he had had with her
upon the ice-Iloe; smiled over the effort
he had had to make to convince her that
she was not dreaming; remembered how
she had commented upon the contempt
he must have for the world.
Then. more reluctantly. he summoned
back The scene just enacted upon the
Auroras deck. recalled the touch upon
his arm. and the challenge which he had
Just fled from; recalled, last OF ali, her
stupid. cruel. blind" Those words did
not apply to her at any rate. lie wished
that she had wings. And then abruptly
dismissed the wish. or tried to,
He had sighted the cup shaped valley
which Roscoe called Fog Lake when the
little party. who were making their un-
conscious way toward it, were still a mile
or two away. He himself was slow 10
perceive that it was their destination
He did not fully realize II, in fact until
ne saw them disappear at the edge OF 1t.
pectation OF seeing them emerge along
another of the slanting ridges which
seemed TO offer Il practicable trail.
When Ii became evident at last they
were not coming out that way he wheeled
about and set out In the direction OF the
yacht He was flying across the glacier
on his way seaward, when he encoun
tered the relief expedition, headed by old
Mr. tanshaw and Scales, the first officer.
The reflection that III order to send out
so numerous a party. they must have left
first intuitive perception of Roscoes de-
sign.
He hung suspended above their heads
Tor moment or two. in. the strip of a
Blind. cruei~' He had promised him
self he would never breathe their air
again, And yet
AS he recalled the situation now, his
eyes on the relaxed. sleeping body OF the
girl who lay here. safe. asleep within
reach OF his hand, he trembled to think
now evenly Ddlanced th5lt decision OF his
had been, that had resulted in his flash
ing down on the Ice beside them and talk
ng a hand in their affair. He had accom-
plished nothing with the rescuine party.
His urgent request that they go back
to the yacht. his offer to find the first
party and bring 1t back, his solemn
warming of the danger all fell alike on
incredulous suspicious ears. AT the end
OF IL all they had trudeed away, uneasiy.
perhaps, for his carncstness could not
nave been utterly without effect. but still
Intent on their original design.
Cayley watched them as they trudged
away. Then, with a sudden determine
ton, again took wing and flew, as fast
as long slant down the wind, would
carry MIN, back TO Fog lake Across
It's. gray. and now darkening. surface >
skinned, this way and that, finally catch
ing the thing he hoped for-the sound OF