The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-14
By Henry Ketchell Webster, Author 'W1th
Samuel Merwin) of Calumet K

~. had and with the help of the fog.
don't see how we detected aoae man snna nfo fo
that His success must nave gone 10
his head and made him mad
"Iic was probably killed In the first vol
ley our people fired whsn isIa o1an LmeS oiId gTI
have accounted for half a dozen OF you.
IL he'd ever had chance-a giant Hhe
that"
Il think he must have been the leader
said Tom He was the first man 10 come
A''i5 "Rui t. w wha, 1:l, makes you call him a
gIant?'' u. - IJa s,-,,c,,
bgG@ns9 Go@n wnS hs imst one blow and as he
raised his arm TO strike | saw that his
shoulder was above the level OF my
eyes;- and l pass for tall man.
His father abandoned the subject abb
ruptlv. and for n while contrived TO talk
Of other things; OF the details OF me @
fight and how different members OF tne
crew had borne themselves;
Blu. his mind was filed With new
terror. and as soon as ne c0uid tI dgei ,nn tma.
he left him, with broken word OF eX-
cuse He must either set this ne" Terror
AT rest. or know the worst at once; There
had been no one either among the sur
vivors or the slain of the Walrus party,
who In any way resembled the monster
Ar An % hour LATER he went back. to the
bridge To talk again with Captain War,
ner. He thought that they had sounded
when they had talked together there:
but In this last hour he had sounded
&o{s t5s esng@'h asH had Saen S e so eay
taken He knew all the details OF the
devilish plan which had so nearly sue
ceedcd More than that, he knew tho
story OF the man Roscoe, from the time
when Captain Planch had taken him
aboard the Walrus, down to the hour last
night when he had sprung into his boat
again and pulled shore ward. Captain
Planck was dying, and old Mr. Fanshaws
questions had enabled him TO enjoy the
i,,-.,, ~ f,,11 al
So they knew now, those two men who
stood there on the bridge, whte-lipped,
they Knew that Jeanne was not alone
upon that terrible frozen shore, The man
Roscoe was there, too ,, o..-s
Mr.. Fanshaw's attention. Tom, with tho
aid OF a heavy cane, was limptng pre-
cariously along the deck toward the bridge
he looked up at them they saw that
somehow. his face had cleared There
was grave look OF peace upon IT.
I've thought of something. he said,
after he had clambered up beside them
I've thought Of something that makes 1t
seem possible to go on living, and even
The two older men exchanged swift
glance. Ele was not to know about Ros-
for, no matter. how illusory. he should
be allowed to keep ito hug It TO his
breast. In place of the horrible. torturins
vision OF the human monster which the
other two men saw.
What Is 1t you've thought OF. TOM"
his father asked unsteadily
Visits CaYley. He's there with her;
I'm sure he Is" He turned away a little
from Captain Warner and spoke directly
10 his father II don't know how know,
but it's rs If saw thern there together
He has fallen in love with her. | think:
I'm quite sure she. has. with him. l
wanted TO kin him for that yesterday,
but now" his voice faltered there, but
the look In his eyes did not change.-the
light Of a serene. untroubled hope. Hes
there with her" he went on. 'and with
Gods help he'll keep her alive until we
can get back with the relief"
He said no more, and he clutched tho
rail- tight in his gauntleted hands and
gazed out north, across the Ice.
(To be Continued)