The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-31
Copyrighted 1910 by the Century Company
Copyrighted 1909-1Ob by the Success Company

| Cayley made no answer at all, but II
M, Mr. Fanshaw hoped to find. with those
confronted him. he was disappointed.
Suddenly, he turned to his son. Where
aboard with him just now?' he asked.
The bloodstaned dart lay on the deck
beside, Toms chair. He picked 1t up
and held it out toward his father
but the elder man. with a ges-
ture. indicated to Cayley that he
was to take 1t In his hand then;
| fetch out from the cabin the stick which
night?''
When she had departed on the errand,
he spoke to Cayley, You will observe
that the butt OF this dart is not notched.
as 1t would have TO be If II were shot
| from bow, ;"
lie did not look at Cayley's face at
| he spoke, but at his hands. Could II be
possible, he wondered. that those hands
could hold the thing with that sinister
| Hunters blood-without trembling? They
were steady enough, though, so far as he
could see,
When Jeanne came out with the stick.
he handed that TO Cayley also. You
| viii notice" he said, ;'lhat that dart
and the groove in this stick were evident
| y made for each other. Mr.. Cayley."
The pupils of Jcannes eyes dilated as
She watched the accused man ht them
| together, and then balance the stick in
| his hand. US if trying TO discover how IL
| could be put to so deadly a use as Mr..
| Fanshaw had indicated. He seemed pre-
occupied by nothing more than purely
| intellectual curiosity.
| His GOODNESS seemed to anger Mr. ran
| shaw. as Ii had formerly anGered his son.
! For moment this sudden anger OF his
rendered him almost inarticulate. Then:
| we don't want demonstration!
came like the explosions of q quick fire
gun. And you have no need for trying
| experiments. You knew how nicely that
dart would 1T in the groove that was cut
for IT, You know altogether too well
what the stain is that discolors 1t. You
| know where we found that dart. You re
only surprised that 1t was ever round
slew"
Everything you say is perfectly true. -
said Caylcy, very quickly: i am sur
also, that you should think. because this
stick fell from my belt last night and
| a mans throat this morning"
Tom Fanshaw interrupted him. His
| eyes were blazing with excitement. 1T
| was not from us that you learned that
that dart transliXed the murdered man S
| throat" he cried.
Il knew It. nevertheless" said Cayley
IN that quiet voice. not looking toward
his eyes on old Mr.. Fanshaw. And
| also little surprised he went on, as
ii he had not been interrupted, that you
should think, because this stick and this
dart fit together, that am. necessarily,
| n murderer
You have admitted 1t now, at all
| events Mr.. Fanshaw replied. His voice
grew quieter. too, as the intensity OF his
purpose steadied It. II suppose that is
because. upon this 'No-Man's- Land you
are outside the pale of law and statute
tell you this: l shink we would be justi-
fed in giving you a trial and hanging
you from that yard there. We will not
do il, We will not even take you back
to the states TO prison. You may live
outlaw here and enjoy, undisturbed. your
| freedom. such as IL Is. and your thoughts
| and your conscience, such as they muSi
be. But If ever you try TO return to
the world OF men
Cayley interrupted the threat before ii
to the world of men" he said. Il wish
the world were empty OF men. as this
| part OF II is. or as l thought il was.
abandoned mankind once before. but yes
terday when saw men here; / felt a
| stirring Of the blood-the call OF what
was in my own veins. Last night whcr
took to the air again; after the hour
| had spent on that ice-iioe yondcr.
thought | wanted TO come back To my
own kind, wanted. III spite OF the past
to be one OF them again Perhaps 1T is
well that | should be rid of that delusior
so quickly. ] am rid Of II, and ] am rid
Of you-bloody,. sodden, stupid. blind.
Yet with all my horror Of YOU. my
| 1lSadln OI YOU i SnOulQ not expect one
OF you TO do murder, without some sort
Of motive. some paltry hope of gain, upor
nc body OF a stranger. II Is of that thai
| you accuse me
"a stranseri' Tom Fanshaw echoed
"Why. when you confess TO SO much. dc
you try TO lie at the end? You cam
think we don't know that the man yol
murdered was once your fricnd--or
Jny try to make us believe that PER-,
Hunter was stranger to you'"
lNn nj k.; t..a.1 Ixf
| Cayley's face since the moment of he
return TO the deck with the throwing
stick. Through II all. through Fanshaw'.
hot accusation. and his own reply
through those lost words OF Toms. 4
had never changed There had been con
tempt and anger in H. subdued by al
those. two, until the very end Until IN,
mention OF that name Perry Hunter
But at tn; sound OF that name-jus
then. the girl saw his face go bloodless
after a little while lie uttered a grea
sob; not Of grief, but such a sob as bot
the Fanshaws had heard before. when
in battle or s<irmtsh, soft-nosed bulle
Smashes its way through some great
| knotted nerve center His hands wen
out in convulsive gesture. both tn
stick and the dart which he held. fsllinl
from them, the stick al the girls feet
the dart at his own. Then leaning bacl
against the rail- for support. he covcre
his face with his hands. At last Will
they waited silently. he drew himsel
up straight and looked dszedly into he
, | face,
Suddenly, to the amazement Of In,
other two men, she crossed the deck T.
where he stood. I'm perfectly sure 10
my part, that you didn't do II: that yo,
are not the murderer OF Mr.. Hunter
, Won't you shake hands?'
He made no move 10 take hers an,
, though his eyes were turned upon her
he seemed to be looking through, rathc
than at her, so intense was his prcoccu
| patton.
, Seeing that this was so. she laid ne
hand upon his forearm. You didn't d
, e." she repeated. but you know some
, thing about IL. don't you? You saw
done. from a long way oh-saw the mur
der. without knowing who its victim
was
! II might have saved him he mur
INJURED brokenly. ''if ! had not hung alof
there too long. Just out Of curiosity:
{ they had been men 10 me instead of pup
, pets. But when I guessed what their In
. tent was. guessed that IT was somethn
sinister. IL was done before | could In
;erfere. / saw him going back wards Owe
: the brink of a fssure In the ice. tuggin
at n dart that was in his throat. AM
when they had ssonp-bis r,urdercrS--'