The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-28
Copyrighted 1910 by the Century COMPANY
Copyrighted 19O9-1Oby the Success COMPANY

10 her To be at horribly close quarters
Inc bear. reared up on his hind legs
had Just lunged forward
Dear motions are wonderfully and
most deceptively quick. Ungainly 10 tho
eye. he can spring and strike with the
dazzling swiftness of a leopard But ir
this case the man was gifted with super
| human quickncss too. Probab bly, without
that power OF instantaneous CO. coordination
pi muscular effort he would never have
learned to ny. In the course OF learning
TO ny, during those five uninterrupted
years at Sandoval. and during those last
tnree months which he had spent almos,
| entirely In the air, he had developed the
quality still further.
He sprang back clear OF the flashing
scythelikc cut of those terrible claws. A
littie to the girls surprise and consid-
| sprintlng UP the beach toward the talus.
at fun speed the bar wounded but not
IN the least disabled. numbering after
1t takes fast runner to ourrun bear.
out Cayley did 1t. When he reached the
1901 OF the talus, the bear was twenty
PAGES behind him. She saw him stop
snort, whirl round again and face his pur-
The bear also checked his speed and
reared up once more, towering, upon his
mind 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
yeiiowish- white mass tottered forward.
ana collapsed In a heap only pace or
Two from where Philip was standing.
He waved his hand at the girl. and
walked back for his wings. When she
met him. half way up the beach. he was
carefully taking the spent shells out of
his revolver, one at a time, and deposit
ing them In his pocket. mo telling how
they may prove useful" he commented; !;
then, with a quick look into her face,
hope you wern't frightened when you
saw me run"
~ suppose I shouldn't have been, bur
I'll have TO confess that l was You
weren't trying To get away from him.
or you wouldn't have run In that direc-
ton. But il looked rather dreadful, Just
the same. Why did you do IT,.
we were too far down the beach. too
near the waters edge before. II was TOO
late 10 skin him and cut him up tonight
and was afraid II a storm were to come
up before morning. a really big storm, we
might lose him. II was a lot easier TO
get him up the beach before I fred those
last two shots than IT would have been
after. I thought at first OF running to-
ward the hut. 1t occurred to me. only
just in time, that there was no use In
making an abattclr of your front yard"
"You thought of all that? At such
time?"
That's the sort Of time when one
does think OF things. isn't it2 It's what
people call the spice OF danger Nobody
likes risk for its own sake; I don't,
at least But to have your mind work
that's worth while. But there wasn't
any particular danger in this case. once
you were safely out OF the way"
What II you had fallen?" she sug-
gested,
There was a chance of that II had.
he'd probably have gone over me. and
could have found my feet again as quick
ly as he.''
They had reached the hut. and as he
finished speaking they entered IT, Even
Philip caught his breath rather suddenly
with that first glance about It's trans
formed interior. The drift t-wood fire.
which sIowed upon the hearth, nlled the
whole room with light, and bathed the
walls and rafters with warm colors.
Here was their fortress-against the
asains, despair That rude hearth which
he had built today was TO be their altar
OF hope
The girl stood looking at it moment
In silence. her lips pressed tight together.
one outstretched hand cropping for the
door -jamb behind her. as If she wanted
the support of something. Even In this
warm freight she looked little pale.
BY an evident effort of will she was
breathing very deep and steadily. She
did not try to speak.
Cayley understood we'll enough what II
meant This place that they had come
back to for the night was nome now,
have In the world. II one were 20 balance
the chances fairly. It's warmth and light
and comparative comfort did more to en-
force realization Of their tragic plight
than anything before had done. The
thing she was lighting with was a sudden
wave of plain terror.
Cayley went out into the little vesti-
bule and closed and bolted the outer door
He contrived to waste a minute or two
over the trihing task. In order to give her
that moment by herself.
When he came back. closing the inner
door behind him as he did so, he found
that she had taken off her cap and the
heavy fur coat which had numbered her
shoulders all day. and hung them upon
n convenient wooden peg IN the wall
She was standing near the fireplace now.
her cold fingers at the blaze.
Cayley started little at sight Of her.
for now she was transformed, too
Standing there. silhouetted against the
blaze, In her gray cardigan jacket and
she looked like a young boy
He had discovered before this that there
was not n grain OF false mooesty about
her: nevertheless 1t pleased him when.
with a certain charming frank simplicity,
she cnlled his attention TO uer costume
TITS lucky thing" she Observed
that I dressed for scramble over the