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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-14

George E.. Saunders was buried in Norwich, from the home of a broth CT. The Pequot Lodge of Odd Eel lows aided in the ritual
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-14

Suspicious are weeds of the mind which grow of themselves, and most rapidly when least wanted.-Wallace.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-14
Worse Of.

You know that I told you how l dropped our rubber plant and wrecked it?"
 "Yes"
 "I'm sorry did it." '"Why?''
 My wife has just bought a new one that's twice as heavy. Plain Dealer.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-14

An Outrage:
 When Major General Sir John Mo Neill, V. C., was badly wounded at Els saman in tha Ashanti war he e-,,erred
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-14

Power when employed to relieve the oppressed and to punish the opprsssor becomes a great bIessing-Swfft
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-09-19

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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-06-23

Philip had been enjoying, he was,
again, the very man who, during those
long years of exile, had dominated
crew and captain of the Walrus and
bent them to his will.
He was returning from the ledge
along the crown of the glacier, when,
on the day of this discovery, he found
that his accustomed path was inter-
rupted by a new assure in the ice; it
had occurred since he had come that
way in the morning, and was too
broad to leap across. So he was forced
to descend by the rougher and more
difficult track which lay along the
moTaine.
Before he had gone three PAGES
along this track his eye made out
something, just off his patch and lit
tie below it, which caused him at first
to utter a snarl of anger, but led him
the next moment to give wild BIAS
phemous yell of joy.
The great fissure which had opened
in the ice had done, in an instant,
what the party from the Aurora had
failed to do after hours of hard labor
it had yielded up the body of Perry
Hunter. which, during all these
months, it had kept imprisoned.
Strapped across the dead mans
shoulders, just where he had carried
It in life, was a rife and around his
middle a belt full of cartridges.
The next instant Roscoe was bend
ing over the body, Jerking savagely
Of the frozen buckles which resisted
his impatient fingers. But they were
not TO be denied. If they were clum-
sy the hands were strong.
It was not five minutes later when
Roscoe. rife and ammunition belt in
his hands. was hurrying on toward his
cave once more. The body lay just
where his Decorating hands had left
it.
The rifle was uninjured; that he had
seen at a glance, though OF course,
all the mechanism of its breech was
frozen fast. But half hours haro
work with cleaning rod and rags OF
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what once had been a shirt. suficed
to put it into commission again.
Then. with the rifle over his shout
der, he staggered out of the cave.
With his first glance abroad. he
started His devil was being kind to
him today. There could be no doubt
of that Only. was he being too kind ?
Roscoe wondered a little uneasily.
For, shambling along the ice, through
the thickening twilight, not 100 PAGES
away, was a big bear. Roscoe was
tired of walrus meat. The thought of
bear steak made his mouth water.
Three years disuse, however, had
made his craftsmanship somewhat
uncertain. He fired too soon, and
feet his shot had was to make the
bear turn about and go shambling
down the glacier toward the beach,
with ungainly haste. Roscoe hurried
after him, and fired two more shots.
Whether they hit or not, he could not
tell Certainly they did not serve to
check the bears flight. The next mo-
ment he had rounded the corner OF
the cliff and disappeared down the
beach in the direction of the hut.
Roscoe hesitated, but only for q
moment; then, with an oath, he set
out in pursuit 1t was not so much
the protection which the rifle afforded
him that was responsible for this new
courage as it was that the mere feel
of it in his hands brought him back
in touch once more with the every
day matter of fact world, and made
his visions and ghosts seem little
unreal.
1t was fully dark down here in the
shadow of the cliff. The numbering vel
low shape of the bear was indistin-
guishable against the icy beach. That
didn't matter, for he could follow
along we'll enough by the bloody
tracks the wounded beast had left.
The last of the twilight was still in
the sky, and half his chances were
directed thither, looking for some
thing which he told himself could not
possibly exist, except in his own
fancy, yet fully expected to see never
theless, the shadow of Cayley's great
wings. And at last he saw it inn
pending in the lower air, like brood
irg spirit, just above the tiny square
of light which marked the location Of
the hut.
Roscoe abandoned his pursuit Of the
bear; all thought of it, in fact, was
gone from his mind; but he did not,
as on a former occasion, drop down
prone upon the ground, his face buried
in his arms; nor did he turn and flee
like one hag-ridden up the beach. He
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faltered, it is true. and his knees
trembled beneath him, and yet, slow
ly and with many pauses he made his
way forward.
He was horribly afraid all the time,
but curiosity was all the while over
towering fear He was not more than
200 yards away when Cayley alighted
beside the girl.
At what he saw then, Roscoe
dropped his rife on the beach, with a
whispered oath, and rubbed his eyes.
The light which diffused itself from
the open window of the hut was not
much, but it was enough to reveal the
fact that this great man-bird, this
golden-winged spirit which had kept
him in terror for his own sanity all
these months, was taking off his wings
and folding them up into bundle, in
as matter-of-fact a way as If he were
furling an umbrella. He stood there
now. Just an ordinary human figure
of a man; the very man, in fact, that
he had seen before and would have
killed long ago had it not been for his
over-mastering terror of the thing
with wings.
He presented a fair mark now, and
was in easy range, but Roscoe was too
thoroughly astonished TO seize the OPP
portunity. and in moment it was
gone again The two figures shrank
into the shadow of the hut, and the
next moment the light disappeared.
For a moment, an accession OF
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That's why | sent you into the hut,
II occurred to me that he might be
following the bear, and that the light
ed windows might give him chance
for a shot at one of us. No matter
what superstitious fears he has, he
could hardly be too much afraid to hre
at us from safe distance, If we nap
nened to offer fair mark"
"But we must have offered him that
a hundred times in the last weeks
that is. if his rifle had anything like
a modern range.
That bullet is certainly a modern
piece of ordnance said Cayley. II
soft-nosed and steel-jacketed."
He laid it down on a shelf and went
into the storeroom to wash the stalrs
of the encounter from his hands
After ALL" he said, Its only one
more mystery, and l don't know that
one more can make any great differ
ence. Not in our way of life, GER
tainly."
Both tried to stick to that view OF
it and, for the present, to dismiss
conjecture upon the new topic from
their minds. but they did not succeed
very we'll The idea that forced ltselI
upon them, in spite of their attempt TO
discredit 1t, was that Roscoe's acqul-
sition of a modern, long-range weapon
with ammunition to match did not
date back to the murder OF Captain
Fielding, nor to the disappearance OF
the Aurora, but that he had found the
weapon. by some strange chance, only
very recently, perhaps within a day
or two. It was a disquieting thought
at best.
II was time for Cayley to turn in
and for Jeanne to begin her evening
watch alone, but before that happened
they paid an9extra amount of atten.
ton to the security of their doors ana
windows.
# was a little before IL o'clock
when Cayley came out of deep sleep
RI find her bending over him, shaking
him by the shoulder and crying out
his name.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-06-23

none of Cayleys shots could have ac-
counted for, he explored with prac-
tised hand.
Watching him as he did so, the
girl could see that he had found some
thing unexpected, something which
surprised him greatly. And there
was more than surprise. There was
alarmed urgency in his voice when he
spoke to her. He offered no explana-
ton. Merely told her to go into the
hut and make fast the solid wooden
shutters over the windows He would
come in and would tell her what it
was all about, in a moment
The girl had hardly finished the
task he had given her, when he came
in. In his blood-stained hand he was
holding out something for her inspec-
ton.
ConQuering a feeling of repugnance,
she bent over the hand, cast one
glance at the thing it contained and
then started up and gazed, wide-eyed,
into his face.
"A bullet she said. "But-but we
thought that Roscoe wasn't armed
not with fire arms, l mean"
Cayley nodded. But this seems to
be pretty good evidence that he is.
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rage against the two who had banned
him and enjoyed immunity from him
SO long, almost led him to attempt to
break into the hut then and there. and
settle matters; but his saner common
sense told him that the settlement
would almost inevitably be against
him should he attempt it.
He was still entertaining this no
ton, however, when a luminous idea
side of the hut, the west side, which
looked toward the headlands, was a
good-sized heap of fire-wood, which
Philip had not been able to find
room for inside the hut Roscoe had
with him a flint and steel and a
quantity of tow. He never travelled
without them.
With infinite precaution against
noise he began laying a fire against
the windward wall of the hut, Squat
ting, with his rifle across his knees
ready to use in case of an emergency,
he methodically whitfield a quantity Of
dry splinters off a few of the sticks,
tgnited them and carefully nursed the
blaze, until, under the rising wind, it
grew to the beginning of fair-Sized
confiagration. Then, catching up his
rifle, he slipped around the other side
of the hut, crouching down not more
than 20 PAGES away, and waited,
Already the fire was burning finely
and the silhouetted outline of the hut
was plain against the glow of 1t.
His plan was a good one. The peo-
pie inside the hut would have no
choice and, probably, no thought, but
of escape When they rushed out. as
they almost certainly would, bewild-
cred and confused and plainly visible
to him against the glow Of the fire be-
hind them, it would be easy, from the
safe shelter of the darkness, to shoot
the man.
1t was only, indeed. by the merest
hairs breadth that Roscoe's plain
failed to work. The instinct OF cs'
cape by the nearest way from a burn
ing building is almost irresistible, ana
it led Philip and Jeanne to the very
edge of the destruction. which Roscoe
had planned for them.
Cayley had his hand upon the bolt
of the great door, whittier he had
sprung when Jeanne's cry had awak-
ened him, before the saving second
thought stayed him and held him
frozen where he was. For perhaps
five seconds he stood there, while the
memory of the unexplained bullet hole
he had found in the body of the great
bear, and the beIated observation that
the fire, which was destroying the hut,
must have been started outside Of it,
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-06-23

much with a rifle; and he remember
ed the deadly revolver shooting he
had seen upon the body of the bear.
Also. he would have to go into the
dark, with the freight behind him.
No. 1t wouldn't do. He must wait
Well, he could afford to wait-much
better than they could.
Reluctantly he rose, turned his
broad back to the gale, and began ma
king his laborious way back to the
cave.
1t was high time. His face was
frozen already. The Intensity OF the
cold had already rendered his rifle
useless, for the whole mechanism or
the breech was frozen fast. His STRAIT
agem had failed in its ultimate inten'
ton, for nature had laid her great icy
hand upon the board and for the pres
cut declared the game draw.
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SYNOPSIS.

Philip Cayley: accused of a crime or
s %nlch ne Is not guilty, resigns from the
hatred Cayley seeks solitude. where he
perfects a flying machine. While soaring
over the Arctic regions. he picks up a
curiously shaped stick he had seen in the
assass1n's hand. Mounting again, he dis
covers a yacht anchored in the bay. De-
girI on an ice foe He learns that the
girls name is Jeanne Fielding and tbcI
tne yacht has come north - xeek signs
of her father. Captain Fielding. an arctic
King seSr,:J ashore. After Cayley departs
Jeanne finds that he had dropped Gu
the SURVIVING crew Of his wrecked whaler
are In hiding on the coast giant ruff
man named Roscoe. had murdered Fielding
and his two companions. after the eX
plorer had revealed the location Of
enormous ledge of pure gold. Roscoe then
t66ok command of the party; It develops
ger witnessed by Cayley; Roscoe plans
to capture the yacht and escape with
Dig load of gold. Jeanne tells Fanshaw,
owner OF the yacht. about the visit OF the
sky-man and shows him the stick left by
Cayley. Fanshaw declares that 1t is an
Eskimo throwing-stick. used to shoot
carts Tom FanshaW returns from the
searching party with sprained ankle
Perry Hunter is found murdered and
Cayley is accused of the crime but Jeanne
beheVes him innocent. relief party goes
TO find the searchers. Tom processes his
love for Jeanne. She rows ashore and
enters an abandoned hut and there finds
her fathers diary. which discloses the eX-
plorer's suspicion Of Roscoe. The ruff
nan returns to the hut and sees Jeanne.
lie is intent on murder. when the sky
man swoops down and the ruffian fees.
Jeanne gives Cayley her fathers diary
to read. The yacht disappears and Ros-
Jeanne's only hope is in Cayley The
seriousness Of their situation becomes APP
ley kills a polar bear. Next he finds
clue to the hiding place of the stores.
Roscoe is about to attack the girl when
he is sent fleeing in terror by the sight
OF the sky-man swooping down. Measures
are taken to fortify the hut.
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articulated themselves into a perfect,
ly clear perception of ROscoe's plan.
The other way The other way"
he cried, motioning Jeanne back
through the storeroom. Into the
cave He is waiting for us outside.
That's why he fired the hut Quick.
We must save all we can"
And so 1t happened that Roscoe
waited in vain. He saw the blaze he
had kindled reach it's fiery climax,
and then in spite of the icy gale which
was tanning it, die down into an
angry, sullen, smouldering glow. But
no man appeared to furnish a mark
for his waiting rife, and no woman
was delivered defenseless, shelterless,
into his british hands.
The failure of his plan brought
back moment or two of the old sup
erstitious horror, but his mind was
braced against it now and did not
readily give way. Somehow, the fail
ure must be ccountable-humanly &C
countabie
At last he solved this mystery, too,
partly solved it, at least, for he re-
membered the ice cave back of the
nut His first impulse, when he
thought of it, was to attack them
there and now, to charge in over the
red hot Goals of the hut and settle
matters once and for ALL
He was sane enough to see that the
advantage would be all against him
In close quarters he could not de
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-06-23
CHAPTER XVlll.-Cortjnuec

The sentence is that you shall be
frightened with bear story. There's
a big one coming down the beach att
er you this very moment, and you're
to surrender the revolver to me and
stay under arrest in the hut until aft
er ] have killed him.
She did not need to be told that he
was in earnest in spite OF the smile
that went with his words. She turned
about quickly and looked up the
beach. sighting along Cayley's arm as
he pointed. Even in the deep twilight
she could already make out the sham
bling figure that was coming along to-
ward them on all fours.
Why does he move in that queer
sort of way?" she whispered.
They had shrunk back into the
shadow of the hut, the girl actually
inside of the vestibule and Cayley on
the doorstep.
He's been wounded When | was
overhead l could make out the blood
stains on his side. and he was leaving
a track on the ice.
Wounded in a fight with another
bear?"
mo. that's not likely
She asked no further explanation,
but slipped into the hut. The next
moment she was back with the field
glasses.
While you're attending to the
bear" she said in a whisper, I'll just
keep watch up the beach fOr-fOr any
one else"
The past weeks had made one diff
ference in her attitude toward Cayley
which she was now aware OF, as she
contrasted her sensations on seeing
Philip step forward, out of the shelter
Of the hut, to confront the bear, with
those she had experienced when he
had set out on a similar errand once
before. She knew him now, and she
had no fear for him. The feeling
that thrilled her now was nearer akin
to pride than anything else.
Cayley fully justified her confidence.
The course the bear was taking would
have brought him within 20 yards of
their doorstep. When he first caught
sight of Cayley he stopped, in two
minds, apparently, whether to be
hunted or to do the hunting himself
Then, as Cayley advanced upon him
rather slowly. he decided. Kissed at
him venomously and reared up.
He was already badly enough
wounded to have taken all the fight
out of any other sort of animal but
half alive as he was, he cost Cayley
four cartridges. Three of those shots
CayIev was reasonably sure must have
entered a vital spot The first one
took the bear between the eyes as he
was rising. The second was fired into
his open mouth The third was prob
ably DETECTED by the massive fore
nav which he was holding across his
body. in the attitude of boxer. The
fourth shot, however, penetrated his
throat and probably smashed one or
the two first vertebrate, for it seemed
to bring the monster down all In
heap, where he finally lay still. Cay
lev could have reached him with his
foot
Good shooting said the girl quiet
" from the little vestibule.
He reloaded the revolver, letting
the empty shells drop unheeded on
the ice at his feet He gave the weap-
on back to the girl, and bent over the
bear.
I'm less interested in what l did
to him." he said, than in what he got
from the enemy who first attacked
him"
The light was almost gone, so that
all he could see were two or three
irregular dark stains upon the white
fur. A wound in the flank. which
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CHAPTER XIX.
Roscoe.

FlSSSOSs
Roscoe had never been able to clear
up his doubt as to Jeanne's identity,
nor to solve the mystery of Cayley's
appearance in the air. The doubt
and the mystery tormented him worse
than any final conviction could have
done. When he thought, as he some
times did, that the cause of all his
terror, the thing which kept him
penned up here n the cave and de-
MED him access to more than the fur
tive edges of the beach, might be just
rather defenseless human couple, a
man ard a woman, and the woman
beautiful, young, alluring-when he
thought of all that he would go of
into transports of rage, which left
even his gigantic body limp and ex-
hausted. If that were the situation,
he might have killed the man weeks
ago and taken possession Of the
woman.
The thing that kept him sane was,
in itself, a species of insanity, the pas
sion for gold which had led him to
murder Captain Fielding. Every day
he tramped 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 infinite labor
beating it pure.
AS the weeks and months dragged
along, this UNMARRIED routine more than
compensated for the solitude and the
terrors his superstition thrust upon
him, and gradually restored him to his
old normal, formidable, brutal self.
On the day when he made the discovery
that was to terminate the long series
of golden days which Jeanne and
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-06-23

Get Up Quickly!" she said when she
saw that he was awake. Philip, the
hut's on dre!"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-15

Hampshire Republican State committee
died Friday afternoon. aged 80 years. at
Concord. lie was one of the states COUNSEL
in the railroad rate investigation during
the recent session of the Legislature and
had been prominently identified with the
Progressive branch OF the Republican par
sty in New hampshire from its beginning
Edward NJ. D'Almeda, who has been
acting as Portuguese vice consul for
Lowell and vicinity, was held Friday
at Lowell. Mass. for the grand jury
on charge of larceny from Gulherme
Niera OF Lawrence The case involves
alleged irregularities in the forwarding
of money to the old country and the
court declares the evidence does not
show whether D'Almeida is really thu
accredited agent of his government.