Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-07-13
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Once more be was tempted to fire.
and might have yielded to the temp
tation had not the light been put out
before he had fairly got his eyes ad-
Justed to the distance.
It is to be remembered, always, that
he knew nothing whatever of the ice
chimney, and suspected no connection
between the hut and the pilot house,
except by the air. For anything he
knew to the contrary, Jeanne might
be able to fly, as well as Philip, or
he to carry her with him upon his
flights. Consequently, he did not sus-
pect, when he saw Cayley take to
fight again, that this action had any
reference to himself; 0 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, eau
tiously, over the crusted snow, toward
the pilot house. The door was closed,
but there was a light shining out
through a crack beneath 1t. 1t was q
glass door, but something 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, ex
cept to Philip with his wings, vas the
ice chimney. 1t was a natural mis-
take enough-one that almost any but
a practised mountaineer would have
made.
Furthermore they had no reason
either of them-for anticipating an at
tack upon the pilot house while PhtltI
was gone. They had been living here
now for weeks, in unbroken security
So, though the girl obeyed Philips in
junction literally and s~crupulously
she did 1t without the slightest sens
Of personal danger, and indeed sh'
would hardly have had room for sucl
an emotion even If there had been
much nor reasonable ground for it.
She was sitting beside the oil stove
in n Of the farther Of tn
room. The chimney hole was in tn
corresponding corner. The revolve
lay on the table In the middle Of tn
room, a few PAGES behind her. Tn
pilot house door was directly in lin
with 1t, and almost exactly behind he
back. The door was hinged to swim
inward.
When 1t burst open she attribute
the fact to no other agency than tn
wind. She laid down the red-boun
book upon the bench beside her an
rose, rather deliberately, before sh
turned round.
AS she did SO Roscoe sprang TO
ward to the table and seized the r,
volver. Her failure to turn imm'
diately had given him the second h
needed to take in the strategic poss
bilities Of the room.
His rifle was a clumsy weapon l
!, close quarters. So, as he sprang 70
ward, he dropped it and made for til
I revolver instead. 1t only needed
| glance at the girl to convince hi
t that she was unarmed. Quite delibe
ately he broke open the breech Of tt
: revolver and satisfied himself that
: was loaded. Then he looked up agai
blinking at the girl.
1t was no wonder that Carlson al
: Rose had mistaken her for the gho
of the man their leader murdered. 81
looked like her father as a WON;
b may resemble a man, and her whit
+ ness, her flneness, her delicacy all
o creased rather than diminished t
/ credibility of the idea that she was
fact his spirit.
D The hand which held the revolv
. dropped n%ervously at his side. I
i swallowed hard, and wrung his cru
lips with his other great hand. 1t w
. then that the girl looked up into b
face. 1t was then she uttered h
first cry.
. For she saw that he did not me;
= to kill her.
Suddenly Jeanne's eyes detach'
themselves from his face. A look
sudden alarm came into them, a
she raised her hand to her throat,
though she were choking. She W
looking past Roscoe, and straig
down the now tunnel.
"Philip!" she cried, take care; b,
here"
The snow tunnel was empty, a
for aught she knew, her lovers DO
might be lying mangled in the mt
ster's cave. She had thought Of IL
/ before she tried the trick. But, even
4 that we're so, that cry Of hers mig
4 lead the monster to steal one unea
& glance at the door behind him; a
even that would give her time enoui
A If he had not killed Philip, but 81
ply eluded him, he would turn
stantly.
That was what he did. He spra
round with a suddenness which
spoke a perfectly genuine, comm'
sense alarm. And then he found hi
self in darkness.
He understood at once that he b
been tricked. Without wasting the tn
to turn back and look at Jeanne,
sprang toward the pilot house do
He thought she meant to attempt
rush by him, gain the snow-tunnel a
throw herself over the crest of
cliff. He had not misread the s
den loathing he had seen in her e.
when they met his face.
In the open doorway he whee
round, triumphantly. She had
got ahead of him that time. He lau
ed aloud into the darkness, and Il
spoke to her, With a vile, ocular
miliarity.
But he got 40 answer, in words
otherwise. There was no cutlery,