The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-09
By Henry Ketchell Webster, Author with
Samuel Merwin) of Calumet K'


of this unknown shelter or his; FOR. IL
the man was living, there was Il pretty
good chance that tho woman was too.
There would be plenty Of chances TO
Kill the man after he had discovered
the location of their nesting place.
So. instead Of firing. he scrambled UT
and from there watched Cayley flight
To his landing place.
He laughed aloud when he saw that
1t was not In the side OF the cliff. as
he had feared. but quite at the crest or
it--whcre II was accessible To a man
who could climb bit as to with
wings.
He did not move from his attitude Of
strained attention, on the summit Of a
little Ice hill. until he saw a faint glow
OF golden light diffusing itself from the
mouth OF the tunnel that led 10 the pilot
house. Then, with that queer shuffitng
gait Of his, which was neither walk nor
run, he began making his way inshore,
over the ice, towards the foot Of the
cliff
Caylcy's tunnel was not at right an
giles to tho crest, but bore off diago-
fact. and he figured IT out that from the
top OF the promontory. which formed
the western boundary of their strip of
beach, he should be able TO command
trail up the cliff 10 one but Roscoe
would have called it a trail, but that was
the way II existed in his mind.
He had not climbed 1t since the day
when the sight OF Philip coming down
from the sky had prevented his attack
even for him. But il was worth the
trouble.
There was a sheltered hollow where.
except in the severest weather one could
pass a number OF hours quite comforta
bly,. Cayley had slept there once. on
the night OF his first meeting Jeanne
or the ice foe.
His calculation OF the angle OF the
tunnel ffi he
newly gained colgu OF vantage. he could
see straight into the pilot house. and
make out clearly enough two hgures
there.
Once more he was tempted to fire,
and might have yielded to the tempta-
ton had not the light been put out be-
fore he had fairly got his eyes adjusted
to the distance.
1t Is TO be remembered, always. that
ne knew nothing whatever OF the Ice
chimney, and suspected no connection
between the hut and the pilot house eX-
ccpt by the air. For anything ne knew
TO the contrary, Jeanne might be able
10 fly. as we'll as Philip, or he to carry
her with him upon his flights Conse-
Cayley take 10 flight again, that this
action had any reference to himse!l
nor that the woman who was left alone
would be on her guard against him.
The moment he glimpsed the shadow Of
Cayley's wings against the stars he began
making his way, cautiously, over the
CTuStcu SHOW, pllol HOUSE.
The distance was not great-not more
than half q mile-but progress over that
glazed precipitous surface was necessar-
lily slow, He had no chance to stand
orally TO crawl, often cutting little holes
in the crust with his knife TO dig his
fingers and toes into.
But he was tireless as well as. per.
slstent, and at last ne drew himself
over the crown OF Cayley's tunnel, let
himself down. and dropped. with ca,iike
lightness for so heavy a man, just out
side the pilot house door.
The door was closed. but there was
light shining ont through a crack be-
Meath It, II was a glass door, but some
thing had been hung over the glass so
that he could not see into the interior
Both Jeanne and Philip had made the
mistake Of assuming that the only way
OF access to the pilot house. except 10
Philip with his wings. was the ice Chin
ney, 1t was a natural mistake enough
one that almost any but practiced
mountaineer would have made.
Furthermore, they had no reason
tack on the pilot house while Philip was
gone. They had been living here, now,
for weeks, in unbroken security. So,
though the girl obeyed Philips injunc-
ton literally and scrupulously, she did
IL without the slightest sense of personal
danger. and indeed she would hardly
have had room for such an emotion even
ii there had been a much more reasona-
ole ground for It.
An acute terror for Philip, who had
gone out to find their monstrous enemy
have dominated both thought and feel
ing. And this terror was all the sharper
because of what had passed between
them the hour before-the coming oi
ing and the sweeping away OF the last
barrier there had been between them-
Probably no human being. not even tho
sancst and most commonplace, is mac
ctE 70 hof nT I'll n
fear that merely being 100 happy, find
ing. lie too conplctc-is sufficient TO
suggest.
Only an hour ago the thing had hap
rcned which made life perfect for her:
and now Philip was gone and she left
alone.
For a while after he left she, had kept
the pilot house door open, and bundled
in her furs. had set near IL, her cars
strained for The sound of cry or tho
report OF a rifle.
too great. Philip might DC gone for
hours; and a this rate she would be
fairly beside herself long before his re-
turn, So, rcsolutely. she made a light,
world, took UP her fathers journal and
tried TO read.
But even this fascinating narrative
lacked tho power to commend her sttcn-
ton tonight She rose half dozen
times from the rude bench on which
she sat TO make some triflins altcrs-
ton In inc room.
One thing she did had reference 10 the
possibility OF Roscoe's attempting an at
tack OF the pilot house-this was 10 re-
move tho wooden cover from the CHM
Dcy mouth. II Roscoe should succeed in
eludins Philip. or in killing him, she
wanted ample warning, The rising Wind
ratified the pilot house door and walled
In the chimney: but she knew she would
be able 10 detect the sound OF the mon
ster's Iaborious ascent long before he
could reach the top.
She was sitting beside the oil stove.
In one OF the farther corners OF the
room. The chimney hole III the
corresponding corner. The revolver lay
on the table In the middle of the room.
few PAGES behind her. The pilot house
door was directly in linc with It. and
almost exactly behind her back The
door was hinged to swing inward,
When it burst open she attributed the
fact to no other agency than tho wind
She laid down the red bound book upon
the bench beside her and rose, rather
deliberately. before she turned round.
As she did so Roscoe sprans forward
to the table and seized the revolver.
Her failure TO turn Immediately had
given him the second he needed tu take