Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-08

tort, he went on. Until L come back
you must keep watch every moment. l
don't think he knows about the ice CHM
ney or the pilot house. but he may, and
We must not run any chances. You must
be alert every second. If he comes up
here you will be able to see him before
with no more compunction than you
would il he were bear or any other
monster. But I~don't think he'll come.
When finish I'll come back to you.
don't think I shall be gone very long.
You aren't to be afraid for me. and you
can trust me to be careful. I know
have your life in my hands as we'll as
my own. Your part is harder than mine:
quite understand that. You must be
keeping watch every second. II he eludes
me and comes here. you must shoot him.
without word or warning Shoot to kill.
But 1 shan't have the revolver.''
There was an electric moment of ST.
lence between them. while she gazed
into his face, Mortified at the meaning
she read there.
you didn't mean that! Philip. Philip
you can't mean that. And leave you to
face that monster unarmed."
Il shall have the only weapon that will
be Of any service to me. my knife. It's
got to be done at close quarters.
couldn't possibly shoot him from the air.
But If can alight near him and come up
within striking distance he will have no
chance with me, not with all his
strength
NO" she said, resolutely. II won't let
you go. Not that way"
Listen, Jeanne If I can find him I
can. kill him. Do you. know what the
movements Of ordinary men. even unusu-
ally quick men, look like to me? Like
the motions Of marionettes The only
chance Roscoe has against me is of pick
ing me off at long range with his rifle.
He could do that whether l had the re-
volver or not. And II he did. If he killed
NJ ho1 tI,o 1xyar hoy
then he would come here and find you
defenseless Don't you see? l couldn't
take the revolver. / should be unnerved
with terror from the moment left you"
With a sob she clasped her arms about
his neck and held him tight. Then. in
tragic submission. they dropped away.
Without saying anything more Cayley
blew out the candle, opened the door
into the tunnel and took up his furled
Wings With trembling hands she helped
him spread them and draw them taut.
AS he adjusted the straps across his
shoulders he felt her hands again upon
his head, felt them clasp behind his neck.
Goodbye" she said
He was trembling all over. as her
hands were, but it was not with fear.
81 shall come back safe" he said
Nothing can harm me tonight"
He pulled her up close in his enfolding
arms and kissed her mouth. In an in
slant he turned and dived off the cliff
head into the night
He headed up into the wind, and hung
for a moment soaring upon fairly
steady current Of air that poured along
parallel to the cliff.
He was still tingling with excitement,
with triumph, with a sort Of joy which
he hardly yet dared contemplate. over
that wonderful last hour OF his with
Jeanne.
But now that he was out OF her pres
ence this excitement expressed itself. as
it commonly did with him. in sort OF
exaggerated GOODNESS. When he told her
that nothing could harm him tonight ne
was not guilty Of mere lovers exag-
geration. It was quite true that with
body and mind tuned, as they were now,
to their very highest pitch-with every
faculty at the uttermost reach OF Its
powers. ready and waiting to be called
upon-nothing was likely to- be able TO
harm him.
His original plan had been to follow
Roscoe up the beach to the cave, In the
hope Of overtaking him, laden with their
stores, and settling matters, out or mana,
then and there.
But a moment later he rejected that
plan for q better one. He lowered in
sharp spiral up five hundred feet higher,
into that velvet spangled sky. swept
across the crest Of the cliff. and sailing
thwartwise to the breeze which he found
on that side he went glancing down the
valley toward the glacier, with the Veloc-
ity almost Of an arrow.
The snow mantle which covered the
world beneath was glazed with an Icy
crust, and in the starlight it glowed with
the milky, iridescent gray Of an enormous
pearl.
From the glacier. where ice pinnacles
pierced the snow, there glinted tiny
-twinkling lights Of sapphire.
When he reached the glacier he checked
his speed a little, and slanted down to an
altitude Of not more than two or three
hundred feet above the crest. He hardly
expected a glimpse Of Roscoe SO soon,
here. but he began scanning the earth's
surface closely with the idea Of accus-
toming his eyes to the light and the dis
lance. Yet it was not his eyes. but his
sensitive nostrils which gave him his first
hint of the probable whereabouts OF the
man he was looking for,
Ito be continued tomorrow