Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-17
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BY Henry Kitct,ell Webster

h was smiling when she handed
him the revolver. Here's luck" she
said. Don't be afraid for me-
Cayley smiled, too. Keep behind me,
but not SO far thai you're in any
danger Of getting cut or In case I have
to dance around him a littla-There.
he's winded us already"
Even at that distance and in the
fading light the girl saw the monster
bristle and throw up his loTing head
with suddenly arrested attention To
her intense establishment instead OF
the snarl she expected. she heard q
venomous. voiceless hiss. There was
something deadful about the sound.
something which. combined with the
weird. insufficient light and the shape
of the beast. which doomed ghostly
through 1t, CAV her a sensation Of
dread wholly unrelated to the actual
physical danger in which they stood.
Cayley turned for a last look at her.
He had slipped his bundled wings from
his back and laid them on the ice He
was still smiling, but somewhat froni-
cally. Tn half afraid he'll run away"
he said, and half afraid he won't
The next instant all doubt on that
head was set at rest. The monster
Kissed again, and came lumberizz
toward them, pretty rapidly, across the
ice.
Cayley advanced slowly to meet him.
but not in a direct line. Instead, he
bore off in a curve to the left. The girl
understood the manoeuver instantly.
and. herself. set out landward at q
brisk pace, moving in the arc OF a cir
Gle. parallel to his but larger. in such
a way as to keep the bear. Philip and
herself, as all three moved in different
directions, in a straight line.
They quartered round in this way,
the bear swerving in well toward
Philip, until al three we're in a line.
about equidistant from the hut. Philip
and the hear. were, perhaps a dozen
PAGES apart. Without turning, he
called over his shoulder to her, Now
run for it-for the hut. I'll keep him
amused out here"
At h sound of his voice, the peal
rushed him. The girl had never in
her life found anything so hard to do
as TO obey orders now. But she did
obey and was running at top speed
lDAdTu TIE OEpn QOOi VI the Hut Wn5It
she heard Cayley fire for the first time.
Just as she reached 1t. she heard his
second shot. When she turned about.
painting. TO observe te result of it. the
two seemed TO her to be at horribly
close quarters. The bear. reared up
on his hind less, had just plunged for
ward.
A bears motions are wonderfully
and most d~eceptively quick. I'm
calmly to the eye. he can spring
and strike with the dazzling swiftness
of a leopard. But in this cas-
the mar was gifted with superhuman
quiekness, too. Probably without that
power of instantaneous coordination OF
muscular effort he would never have
learned to fly. In the our of learn
ing TO fly. during those five uninterrupt-
ed years at Sandoval. and during those
last three months which he had spent
almost entirely in the air. ne had de-
veloped the quality still further.
He sprang back clear of the flashing.
s~cythelike cut of those terrible claws.
A little to the girls surprise and con-
siderahly to ner alarm. he turned and
went sprinting up the beach toward the
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but not in the least disabled. numbering
after him.
1t takes q fast runner to outrun 4
bear. but Cayley did 1t. When he
reached the foot of the telus the bear
was twenty PAGES behind him. She saw
him stop short, whirl round again and
face his pursuer with a shout.
The bear also checked his speed and
| reared up once more, towering. upon
his hind legs. Then Cayley fired twice
the shots coming SO closely together as
to be hardly distinguishable. One or
both Of them took instantaneous effect.
The great yellowish-whiae mass tot
tered forward. and collapsed In q heap
only a pace or two from where Fhi'@
was standing
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