The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-07
CHAPTER TX.
WAITING FOR DAWN.

| into the wind and dropped, facing th'
| girl and with his back to her. retreatnt
| assailant. He had to drop almost YER
tically in order to avoid being blown d 2u
! Even as ~ was he went slitherlng dowr
the CLASSY slope toward the water. anc
only managed to check his impetus by
throwing himself fiat on his face anc
clutchns at n hammock which chanced
TO offer him n precarious hold. He hao
come down ''all adrift' as sailors say
flight but instinct with Tapping perver-
sity, cost him a momentary struggle while
he was getting them bundled into con-
| trollable shape
tack from the man whom his sudden ap-
pearance had just put to flight, Wheth-
er the man came back or not. would de-
pend on how badly Cayley's portentous
Intervention had frightened him, but ii he
came back before the SlSy-man had got
clear Of his wings, he would find an an
tagonlst as helpless as the girl herSef,
Cayley, before he dropped, had weighed
IL as an even chance that this very thing
would happen. m
And II Ii did not the odds were still
rather against his coming out oi the
maneuver undamagod. Alightlng upon an
unknown surface at night in "a dense
fog and in the teeth OF number seven
gale, was not an act which sane sense
of self preservation would approve oil.
But thanks as much TO luck as TO
skill he presently found himself upon
his feet uninjured. He at once set out.
making what haste he could. across the
ice toward where nc had last seen The
girl, shouting up the gale 10 her at the
same time. TO know if she were safe He
heard no answer, but presently made her
out. dimly. only u pace or two away
His first act then. even before speaking,
was 10 take out his pocket electric bulls
eye and turn it full upon her,
IT'S just to make sure you're not
hurt-that / really got down here In
time " he DnnlOriZpi wish i might
have saved you the terror. but it wasn't
until YOU cried out that ! knew- .,.
a little dazed, that's all. No, not With
to he frightened But / thought you'd
gone this morning. that you had aban-
And yet when I cried out lust now, for
help. It was YOU that I called to.
And then YOU came. out Of the sky. Just
as [ was sure you would. For | was
in dreams. Now that It's over. l find
myself wondering again IL you are real.
I'm not hurt at ALL
Before he could find anything TO say
mufled in the fog, from the direction
Of the Aurora and in prompt reply to
It, another volley.
Wasn't there firing before?" she
asked. Can any one be attacking the
yacht? There is no one there but Tom,
you know. and he's, disabled Can't we
can't ], get out there any way The
boat I came ashore In is right here"
Without making her any answer. he
carried the unwieldy bundle his wings
made into the hut and left IL there,
then returned to her and offered her his
hand.
We'll go down and look for your
boat" he said,
Along the waters edge they searched /
aided by the little beam from his bulls /
Eye. the sound OF Intermittent firing
rom the yacht urging haste all the .
while But 1t did not take long 10 force
he conviction upon them that the boat [
vas bone. Blown adrift, most likely. was /
'avley's explanation,
He felt her trembling. Whether with
old or dread, he did not know. but he
ook her arm and steadicd her with the
PRESSURE OF his own,
Come back to the hut" he said. "Thc
tuation isn't as bad as you think. I'll
ell you when we get to shelter where
We can talk
She turned obediently. and breasted the
cy slope with him, Neither spoke again
lntil they were safe in the lee OF the
tut Then he said:
~ don't think Fanshaw is alone there
rst party from the Aurora got together
ONE time this afternoon and started
ack toward the shore. They should be
board the yacht by now. though when
he fog fell It put an end to my activI-
les The Walrus people have undoubt-
div attacked them. but they shouldn't
dNs dUN lIOuDIS IN DGdI)0C tnGm OFT. ]
hey outnumbcr them and they are bet
sr armed; In fact. so far as I know
he Walrus people aren't armed at all.
hey knew-your people, I mean-that
Did them so myself. and then their pre-
,nded guide confessed"
How did you know about the Wal
lsY she asked curlousy.
THE Portuguese was one OF them he
ad guided your first party down into
little valley OF perpetual fog, under
rders to abandon. them there. When he
IVY me sailing about overhead-through
le fog YOU know-he broke down and
then, well he made
can breast OF IL He lsncw nothing OF
,c details OF his leaders plans but the
ere fact that he had been delegated
, guide the party into n place from
hich IL was 10 he expected they could
ever get out, was. conclusive as to his
teDtions AZ least"
He had spoken rather disconnectedIv. K
IS sentences punctuated by the sounds !
firing from the yacht BY the time (
"Why does II sound SO much fainter
IAN tt did?". she asked "Its not nearly
loud as that first volley we heard
ITS trick OF the fog. very likely"
, said. Fog. is friehtfuIiy treach>
ous Thing, II deceives mems ears as
ell as their eyes There's no Judging
stance through It, When YOU cried
ere fifty feet below me or Ave hundred 4
ct. I was UP above IT, you see. and u
Idnt any way OF telling how deep il
as There, Do you hear?' he went b
l. THE firing has stopped altoge lhcr Y
our people are almost certainly safe ="
But the girls mind had not followed n
m TO the new subject. You were up n
ere In clear air?" she asked land the n
6 was all below you?'
Like blulsh-crey blanket" he ox-
aimed; tit by the stars. and nothing II
sc. II was pouring along like the E
eatest river you ever saw. the surface IA
1t eddying off In little wisps The n
per air is comparatively still" III
And you couldn't see through 1t at III
z" she Observation-Disclosures see the H
I'd any more than you could see the IA
tom Of the ocean through the water?" H
NO more than that" he assented III
She shivered a little and reached out III
his arm. And YOU came down INTO XII
NJ. not knowing what you were TO and
XOt knowing yyhcrc ihs Inri --.. ~" y