The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-28
mnds
THE SKY-MAN
BY
HENRY KITCHELL WEBSTER
Author f,cith Samuel Meruin) Of Cabinet "K'
Copyright 1910 by The Century Company.

out and killing him in cold blood. be-
fore he had made an overt move
against them. was highly repugnaht
TO her
/ Cayiey had no such feeling. To him
Roscoe was simply more dangerous
sort of wild beast. To him. at first
glance, the idea of merely waiting tor
their enemy To attack them at his
! leisure was we'll night intolerable. and
seemed hopeless into the bargain. But
when he saw that 1t was the only
thing they could do. when he began
really to study out the strategic pos-
sibilities of the position they held. the
! outlook frightened considerably.
In the first place, this bit of beach
where the hut stoos was practically
fortified. The elf behind it was alb
solutely sheer and was capped with
deep, perpetual snow. Halt a mile to
| the westward was the promontory.
and about half a mile up the beach
from the hut, to the eastward, the
t glacier projected it's ice masses In a
Tong foe cut to seward. This glacier
provided the only practicable means
Of entrance to the interior valley and
the ledge where the gold was.
BY means of a large scale map. Cay
ley pointed out TO Jeanne this advan-
tage of their position. $50 long as
we cant be rushed nor surprised.
No one can attack US without either
coming down the glacier at one end,
or around the promontory at the
other. From either direction they've
got to approach without cover. OF
course II there are lot Of them. we
shant have any chance. But 1t may
I've there's only one. and it's likely
that there are not more than three =
But at night, said the girl, -
al night there'l be nothing 10 pre-
vent their coming as close as they
please. They may lie out there now.
not dozen yards away
They're not doing much ii they
/ are We're securely oarrieaded here,
and they can't attempt to break in
without giving rs fair warning Tn
lexs there arr too MANY al them We
should beat them at that game, No
the time te look out TOR them III when
we're outside the hn,. out on the beach
doing the things Well have To- do
( bringing in f3reseod, cooking fer more
game. and So Oh
Shall we have 10 60 that Can't
we just stay In here. safe ~
! The daylight viii answer that
question for me. he said we must
I make the most et IL. = month from
nov there'H be bat little We rnusrn- I
make prisoners Of ourselves unr.f the
winter does it for rs. There is one
thing. though. he added thought
fully after "A little silence "onr thing
that must dc at once and that is
- destroy these sheds where they
kept their stores. They would furnish
cpVer-as good "a cover as any
en.iuN could ask for, They hinder
8 our view up the beach
i;ew long do sou suppose II will
iasts" she asked Ia voice that shook
little, How long can il last How
long can We live like that. even sup
posing that our wAtch is effective and
/ THAI they aren't ahFe~ vt surprise us ~
she eiasped her hands, with shtsti-
der and gripited ,hcsn between her
knees. --''sitl. If 1t would only happen
soon. she went on. w nateyer il is"
What | don't understand" said
Cayley, is ehy they haven't attacked
os already Why have srey waited
unsh ~e are fortified and seeure .
Why didn't they attack AS yesterday
morning when they would have found
us helpless
or yesterday afternoon. she sup
plenlented, Gown the beach around
the pronoasary, then. when We know
he must haze been 50 near That's
rather horrible all l., itself. Just the
fact that he didn't"
What the girl said wns perfectly
true Gasiey felt ii himself as
sharply As she did Aside from that
one element, in il. their eitaation.
though terrible was real. was The sort
of situation that n sufficiently deter
mined courage and a sufficiently alert
wariness could cope with
hut their immunity from attack
during all those hours when the
enemy must have been close AT hal.a.
and when opportunities for attacking
had been So plentiful. had something
nncanny about il. and gave 10 this
terrible adventure OF theirs something
OF the quality of horror.
"pf course" said cayley there
must be perfee tlg valid explanation
of 1t, and IL may he one that We can
discover for ourselves, IL We set about
it"
So, az saneiy and AS logically as pos
! sibie, aism3ssing as far AS they could
I the nameless dreadful terror that
surrounded the situation. they be-
gan 10 reconstruct the story of the.
member. or members of the Walrus'
party who had not been aboard the
Aurora when the gale drove her out
to sea
Ito be continued