The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-09
Copyrighted 1910 by the century Company
Copyrighted 19o9-10by the Success Company

He was still tingling with excitement
| with triumph with sort of JOY whicf
| he hardly yet dared contemplate. over
that wonderful last hour of his witt
Jeanne.
But now that he was out of her pres
| cncc this excitement expressed itself, as
exaggerated GOODNESS. When he told hel
that nothing could harm him tonight he
WAS not guilty Of a mere lovers exas
geration 1t was quite true that with
body and mind tuned. as they were now
to their very highest pitch-wlth every
faculty mt tho uttermost reach OF It's
npon-nothing was likely 10 be able te
harm him.
His original plan had been 10 follow
Roscoe up the beach to the cave, In the
hope OF overtaking him, laden with their
stores. and settling matters, out OF hand
then and there.
But moment later he rejected that
plan for q better one. He lowered in a
sharp spiral UP five hundred feet higher,
into that velvet. spanGled sky, swept
across the crest Of the clin, and sailing
on that side, he went glancing down the
valley toward the glacier. with the We
locity almost OF an arrow.
The snow mantle which covered the
world beneath was glazed with an 10y
crust, and in the starlight 1t glowed with
the milky, iridescent gray Of an enor-
nous pearl.
From the glacier where Ice pinnac ces
pierced the. snow. there ginted tiny
twinkling lights OF sapphire.
When he reached the glacier he
down TO an altitude of not more than
two or thrcc hundred feet above the
crest. He hardly expected glimpse OF
he eS would be here. e. but he began scanning
the carth's surface closely with the idea
OF accustoming his eyes to the light and
but his sensitive nostr1is which gave hin,
his first hint of the probable where
abouts Of the man he was looking for.
The frozen air which he had been
less. save for the family acrid sugses-
tion of ozone about it--a thing, by The
way, which he was puzzled to account
for, unless ii presaged some titanic cleo
trical display in the sky.
But the odor which now Invaded his
fastdious nostrils automatically checked
his flight, He tilted back his planes and
his momentum sent him towering almost
vertically aloft. He did not analy2e it
not that first instant, but his sensation
WAS the same one that makes a, dog sud
In moment he knew that it was
smoke. the, smoke OF no clean. sparkling
wood fire. but OF smouldering bones and
the flesh OF some animal.
Slowly he began to descend IN the
sweeping circles OF 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 10 be found.
He had no doubt al 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 con-
cave silver. caught the glcam OF red that
He threw his head back sharply and
gaZed et il. He could not see. the fire
itself-that must be hidden behind the
great rock which almost blocked the en-
trance TO what must be the cave.
The gleam he had caught in his mir
ror had been reflected in turn from the
cleaning surface of mass Of Ice little
farther out.
He slapted away again, searching now
for e level place to alight. found it with
in a hundred yards Of the cave mouth.
circles once completely round. TO make
sure that ne could not ue surprised IL
the act or getting clear Of his wings,
and moment later came down sound
lesslg. except with a faint slither or his
planes. upon the ice.
He bounded almost instantly 10 his
feet. slipped his knife out OF his. belt and
while ne furled his planes. That done. he
deposited the bundle In the. angle. of a
projecting rock. and stealthily made his
way toward the cave mouth
The plan which most naturally sus-
gested itself OF bearing away from it a
little and attempting TO get a glimpse
into the interior from safe distance
FIRST, he rejected in favor of a more au-
dacious. but probably not more dangerous
one.
FIc skirted the rock. which partially
blocked the mouth OF the cave. as closely
as possible. intent on rounding the corner
and appearing suddenly within what ne
hoped might he almost striking distance
OF the man he sought.
or course he did not know where Eos-
coe was: could not even be sure that he
was in the cave at all. though lie felt
very -little doubt of that. But he re-
flected that while Roscoe's position might
surprise him-his position would surprise
Roscoe even more He was sure that he
was quicker than Roscoe. and better able
10 seize the advantage il an unforeseen
situation.
At the very edge OF Tie shelter afforded
by the rock he paused for An instant:
then. with every nerve tuned to the high
est pitch-with every muscle in a state
Of supple relcXation. yet Instantly ready
for any demand that might he made
upon it--hc stepped round the corner and
into the mouth OF the cave.
Probably no apparition OF the monster
he expected TO find there-no sight Of
him towering cXpectant. armed, anticl-
pating all that Cayiey hoped to 90. and
ready 10 frustratc IT, could have been SO
terrifying TO Philip as the thing he
actually saw. which was-nothine. ~
least. 40 far first glance into the
cave would reveal, his enemy was not
there.
less. staring into the smoky, wavering
shadow. He was not consciously look
ing at what was before his eyes-cer-
tainly not cataloging tho details which
went 10 make up the picture.
lie seemed 10 be taking IL in through
all his senses at once, But he did not
need TO explore the remoter rcccsse5 of
the cave 10 make sure that Roscoe vas