The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-02
HAPTI.I, NN.

Roscoe had never been able TO Gear
sur his doubt as 10 Jeanne identity,
nor to solve the mystery III GaTley =
appeal rance III the sir The doubt
and the mystery tormented him worse
than any final conviction could have
done when he thought. al he some
times did. that the cause OF all his
terror. the thing which kept him
& SEEMED UP ere in the case and denied
him access 10 more than the fHrtiVe
edges of the beach. might he lust Il
rather deIenseless human couple, a
man and woman and the woman
beautiful. young. aiiuring he
Thought OF all that he would go off
Into transports OF rage which left
even his gigantic body limp and e2-
hAusted IL that were tn. situation
he might have killed the man weeks
Axo and taken possession OF the wo-
man.
What prevented this suspicion from
.becofning a certainty was the sight he
6aw. day after day. Of the huge. gold
sNn-winxed thing. keeping it's ma es
stft guard In stateiy circles over that
sbit Of beach ne dared not venture
upon.
The only question he had about
@1hxt was whether i, were really an
gAvenginr spirit or an hailuctnation
Snk his own brain. That these were
eNnt the only alternatives never oe-
sCurred to him. So. during those
ssU&Eks. he lived in a sort OF hell.
Rage and lust and despair and an
s4neFadicable superstitious dread took
4 their turns tearing at him.
The thing that kept him sane was
In Itself a species Of INSANITY, the
passion for gold which had led him
40 murder Captain Fielding Every
1Ay he trar1ped up the glacier To the
gold ledge and there, while the light
lasted. he worked. cutting the precious
metal out Of the rock. and with in
ftnite labor beating it pure
A. the weeks and months dragged
along. this UNMARRIED routine more
S1haM compensated for the solitude and
me terrors his superstition thrust
a0p0n him. and gradually restored him
M his old normal. formidable. brutal
i4elf On the day when he made the
0tscovery that was To terminate the
long series OF golden days which
SJeAnn. and Philip had been enjoy
ms. he was. again, the very man who.
I0Mr1ng these long years of exile. had
terminated crew and captain of the
WAirus aud bent them to his will.
lie was returning from the ledge
1AlgnG the crown of the glacier, when.
~ the day Of this discovery. he found
mat his accustomed path was inter-
xupted by new fssure in the ice.
~ had occurred since he had come
fhat way In the morning and was
TOO broad To leap across. 50 he was
fOrced to descend by the Tougher and
more difficult track which Law along
the inoraine
N Before he had gone three PAGES
Aion9 this track his eye made out
something, just off his path and a
little below 1t, which caused him at
nrSt to utter a snari of anger. bur
40 him the next moment TO give "a
Riiu. blasphsmous yell OF JOY
M The great fissure which had open
"a In the lee had done, in an instant
Mhat the party from the Aurora had
tailed TO do after hours of hard labor:
u mad yielded up the body of Perry
Hunter, which. during ali these
months II had kent imprisoned.
ne sight II Il MAS no new thing
m Roscoe, he had seen il n score
~ times. buried deep down in that
&ternai Ice The sight had cost him
~ Qualms 30 long as no ghosts came
bAck 10 haunt him he could survey
HE murdered body Of one OF his
Victims with no more emotion than t
: polar bear would feel in similar |
circumstances But that The Ice
which mad apparently meant TO keep
N forever. should discharge Il thus
4rntuitcuslS. into his very path. IF
Ifunted him: seemed like piece. of /
Insnittng fnoekers on the part OF the
eAvious devil which he worsh.ppsI i
TOR a god
Y hut that feeling lasted only the pc
nod of one brief glance, and then
managed II satarnine JOY For.
trapped across the dead mans shout
3erA just whore ne had carried ii in
Nc. was a rifle and round his mid