Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-12
i'm. befor, the twilight had s.a,d,

him. before the twilight had fadsd. :
II was O strange face, % che -
,membered it, but this. she rejected
was probably due DO the incoag1ooua
effect Of his deeply tanned akin viii
his very light sun.bleached hair. 4
sensitive face. nnsly chiselsd. almes,
.beautiful-and young. but With IN h
explicable stamp Of pFo0atuo 0gl
upon t. Il had not stzuok her q ~
al tragic face. And yoe Tie mean
ing Of those last words Of his. uttered
as they were. had been tragic ssougA
= "At least you have . magnificent 70
,venge," was all she said. And tAsa
there was another silence. she her
self was trying to think Of sometime
TO say, for she realised that hls 90
tession had been Involuntary. and tAal
the silence must DO distressing Mn
But It was he himself Who bfo)eo
the silence with . natural. na&1srS4
fact question. "You say searching
party has set out from the yacht!
Have they been long ashore?"
"They set out only little after sun
rise. We came into the bay with the
last Of yesterdays twilight, and the
sight of those huts. at the edge Of the
shore" her voice faltered little.
nearly made us hope that the fmpos-
sible might prove true. We f1red our
signal cannon two or three times and
then sent up some rockets. without
getting any answer. It was too late
to go ashore in the dark; SO we had
to wait a few hours for another sun
rise. The few Of us who were LEFT
on the yacht expected them back to-
day before dark fell. But l suppose
there's nothing to worry about IN
their not coming. They went equipped
TO pass night ashore, II necessary.
You don't advise me to begin worry
ing about them. do you?"
He did not answer her question. He
waa recalling something which his
amazing meeting with the girl out
here on the ioe-hoe had, for . little
while, put quite out of his mind-the
weird, silent tragedy he had seeo en-
acted a few hours before upon the
glacier behind the headland. The
victim, the man in the leather coat.
must have been one Of the party from
the yacht: but it was Impossible that
the little band Of his murderers could
be- No one freshly landed from the
yacht would have been dressed as
they wero, or would have been armed
with darts.
With no better look at them than
had been possible to him as he hung
above their heads, he had been con-
WINGED that they were white; certain
ly, the leather-coated man had been
talking to them, freely enough. IN
English And yet, II white. they must
have been refugees-survivors. II not
Of Captain Fielding's Inflated expedi-
ton, then Of some other, tragic, unre-
ported ship wreck.
But II they were white men-refu-
gees. why had they fed from their
hut at sight Of the yacht which came
bringing rescue? Why had they
driven that one luckless member Of
the rescuing party who fell in with
them. into that carefully prepared am
bush. and then murdered him. silent
ly? Even Eskimos would not have
done thing like that.
His long silence had alarmed the
girl, and presently, perceiving that
this was so, he drew himself up with
an affected start II beg your par
don. ! drtfted OF, thinking Of some
thing else. Living In the sky doesn't
seem conducive to good manners No,
I don't believe there 10 anything to
worry about. Any way. as soon az
light comes back, which won't be
long now. can set at rest any fears
you may have. I'll go and find your
party, and I'll search tho land, too
for anything else that may be there.
And then I'll bring you word"
you are very good" she said with
Q little hesitation. but cant let
you
He Interrupted her with q laugh.
Its nothing dihicult that am pro-
posing to do for you. you know
That's true. I had forgotten your
wings. The rocks. the ice. the steep
places. that mean 50 trag1oally much
to them, are nothing & ell to you. But
what are you doing now. Even you
cant find them in the dark"
He had already begun unstrapping
the bundle he had made Of his wings.
and seemed to be preparing for I'm
mediate flight. That was what caused
her question. I.
NO." he said: II shall wait for sun,
rise"
But why not here. on the yachtf''
We can give you a comfortable bed!
there; better. certainly. than that
sleeping bag Of yours"
II am afraid" he said. that what
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