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SYNOPSIS.

Philip Cayley accused Of crime %, OF
which he is not guilty resigns from the
army in disgrace and his affection for
bbs FRIEND lieut. se perry where he
perfects flying machine. While soaring
over the Arctic regions, he picks up
curiously shaped stick he had seen IN I Inc
covers a yacht anchored In the bay ne.
scending near the steamer, he meets
girl on an Ice foe. He learns that tne
girls name is Jeanne Fielding ana that
the yacht has come north to seek Signs
of her father, Captain Fielding, an arctlc
explorer. A party from the yacht is ma
king search ashore. After Cayley departs
Jeanne finds that he had dropped a GU,
riously-shaped stick. Captain Planck and
the surviving crew of his wrecked whalesr
are In hiding on the coast. A glan't I rEL,
and his two companions, after the eX-
plorer had revealed the location OF an
enormous ledge of pure gold. Roscoe then
that the ruffan had committed the muir
der witnessed by Cayley: Roscoe pans
TO capture the yacht and escape with
big load of gold Jeanne tells Fanshaw
owner of the yacht, about the visit of the
skyman and shows him the stick left b.
Cayley. Fanshaw declares that 1t is an
Eskimo throwing stick. used to shoot
darts. Tom Fanshaw returns from the
searching party with a sprained ankle
Perry Hunter is found murdered and
Cayley is accused of the crime but Jeanne
bNiH-NtS MN llliOCtHl. ~ ItHCl pthiNy SUES
30 find the searchers. Tom processes his
love for Jeanne She rows ashore and
sn;ers an abandoned hut and there finds
her fathers diary, which discloses the ex-
plorer's suspicion of Roscoe. The ruff
han returns to the hut and sees Jeanne.
He Is intent on murder. when the sky
man swoops down and the ruff1an fees.
Jeanne gives Cayley her fathers diary
TO read. The yacht disappears and Ros-
soe's plans to capture it are revealed.
Ieanne's only hope is in Cayley. The
seriousness of their situation becomes ap-
parent to Jeanne and the sky-man.. Cay
ley kills a polar bear. Next he finds a
clue to the hiding place Of the stores,
Roscoe Is about to attack the girl when
be Is sent fleeing in terror by the sight
Of the sl<y-man swooping down; Measures
are taken to fortify the hut. Cayley kills
wounded polar bear and receives the
nrst intimation that Roscoe possesses
firearms. \ fssure in the ice yields up
Hunters body and Roscoe, finding it, re-
moves the dead mans rifle. He discovers
hat Cayley is a human being and not a
spirit. The ruffian is bafhed in his plan
10 murder Cayley when the latter and
Jeanne take refuge in the cave where a
furious storm keeps them imprisoned.
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acHAPTER xx.-continued.

He made his dive as shallow as pos
hble, and in the sheer exuberance of
delight at being once more awning he
beat his way aloft again by main
strength, towering like falcon. All
his old power was here unImpaired,
yet every sensation it brought him
was heightened and make thrilling by
long disuse. BY means of those great,
obedient wings Of his he played upon
the capricious, vagrant air with the
superb insolence of mastery. Every
trick of flight was at his command,
the flashing dive of the piratical frig-
gate bird, the corkscrew spiral of the
tern, the plummet-like pounce of the
hawk, and. at last, the majestic, soar
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CHAPTER XXI.
A sortle.

But that did not happen, and a
sudden instinct that something must
have gone wrong reached her, with al
most the force Of spoken word.
What is it? What's happened,
Philip" she asked, as she turned
He did not answer at once. He was
bending over the hole formed by the
top of the ice chimney and rather de-
liberately replacing the wooden cover
upon it. When he did straighten up
at last and she saw his face, she
knew her instinct had not lied to her.
IT'S rather a queer thing for US to
have forgotten" he said, after all
these weeks when we lived In terror
of him, and after the last thing he did
to us. But we had forgotten him
Roscoe, you know-and now he has
stolen march on us"
She looked at him in sort Of won
der.
1T Is true" she said, I'VE had for
gotten. Those days when we lived
in the hut seemed almost as far away
from us up here as the rest Of the
world seemed then. :" She made
a little pause there. then reused her
self. What is it that he has done,
Philip"
"He has found our stores down be-
low here. He has taken everything
made a perfectly clean sweep"
There was little silence after that.
Before she spoke again she came over
to him and kissed him. There was a
grave sort of smile on her face when
she said:
well. is there anything we must
do?"
ooh, yes" he said. THAT move OF
his doesn't end the game. 1t only be-
gins a new one. Really, l think, the
odds are more in our favor this time
than they were before, only this time
we shall have to move quickly.
would have followed him up at once,
without coming back here, only |
didn't have" He stopped rather
short.
"Of course" she said. you hadn't
the revolver"
THAT wasn't what wanted;
wanted my wings. Now I've got back
to them l must start at once"
She uttered little cry of protest at
that
Cant you-can't you wait little
a few hours? Life has only just be-
gun for me-for us-with what you
told me just now"
He let moment go by in thought
full silence, before he answered.
NO" he said, at last, its got to
be settled now, before another moon.
rise. The light is all in his favor, the
darkness in mine. If can find him
now, think l can kill him. Now
think It over, It seems to me likely
be doesn't suspect We are alive at
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above the crest. He hardly expected
a glimpse Of Roscoe so soon, having
no reason to think he would be here,
but he began scanning the earth's sur
face closely with the idea of accustom'
ing his eyes to the light and the dis
lance. Yet it was not his eyes, but
his sensitive nostrils which gave him
his first hint of the probable where
about of the man he was looking for.
The frozen air which he had been
drawing deep into his lungs was odor'
less. save for the family acrid sugges'
ton of ozone about it-a thing, by the
way, which he was puzzled to account
for, unless it presaged some titanic
electrical display in the sky.
But the odor which now invaded his
! fastidious nostrils automatically
checked his flight. He tilted back his
planes and his momentum sent him
towering almost vertically aloft. He
did not analyze it-not that first In
slant, but his sensation was the same
one that makes dog suddenly throw
up it's head and snarl, bristling.
1t a moment he knew that 1t was
smoke, the smoke of no clean, spar
king wood fire, but Of smouldering
bones and the flesh of some animal.
Slowly he began to descend in the
sweeping circles of great spiral, con-
stantly searching with an eagerness'
which amounted almost to an agony,
for the point of angry red which would
tell him where his enemy was to be
found. He had no doubt at all that
| his enemy was there The man who
| had laid that fire was likely to be
sleeping beside it.
he was within 20 feet of the level
Of the ice before his little mirror OF
concave silver caught the CLEAN OF
red that he was looking for.
He threw his head back sharply and
gazed at it. He could not see the fire
itself-that must be hidden behind the
great rock which almost blocked the
entrance to what must be the cave.
The CLEAN he had caught in his
mirror had been reflected In turn
from the cleaning surface of mass
of Ice little farther out.
He slanted away again, searching
now for level place to alight, found
1t within 100 yards of the cave-mouth.
circled once completely round, to
make sure that he could not be sur
prised in the act of getting clear OF
his wings, and a moment later came
down soundlessly, except with a faint
slither of his planes, upon the Ice.
He bounded almost instantly to his
feet, slipped his knife out Of his belt
and held the heft of it between his
teeth while he furled his planes. That
done, he deposited the bundle in the
angle of projecting rock, and stealth
lily made his way toward the cave
mouth.
At the very edge Of the shelter af-
forced by the rock he paused for an
instant; then, with every nerve tuned
to the highest pitch-with every mus
Gle in a state of supple relaxation. yet
instantly ready for any demand that
might be made upon it-he stepped
round the corner and into the mouth
of the cave.
! ITO BE CoNTINUED.)
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She caught her breath in a great
sob. Turning little, she clasped her
own young arms around his neck and
held him tight.
1t was long time after that be-
fore either of them spoke. Finally,
Jeanne asked question.
"But, why" her voice broke in an
unsteady little laugh, "but why do you
ask to be forgiven? You told me the
very first day, the day we found the
yacht had gone, that you-loved me.
That's why allowed you to stay"
Eyes, but there's an infnity of ways
of loving, Jeanne, dear. | had a right
to love the soul of you, for that was
what had given me my own soul back
and my power of loving. But we set
out to live through this winter in the
hope Of rescue, the hope that when
another day came it would bring a
ship to take you back into your own
real world. / couldn't go back with
you, you know, l man with stain
upon him. Since that was So hadn't
any right to love you this-other way.
| wonder If you understand, even now.
I love all of you; from the crown of
glory you wear, down to the print
your boot has left in the snow. love
your lashes, your wistful lips. The
touch of anything that is warm with
your hands can thrill me. And as for
the hands themselves-oh, l can't
make you understand"
Yes" she said very softly, 81 I'M
derstand, now
And yet" he began after awhile,
81 haven't any right, when l must give
you up some day ;"
She laid her fingers on his lips.
We'll not talk of rights she said.
mot now, not tonight. But there's
something more to say. Philip, 1t
wasn't the sight of the ship there
against the moon that made me think
l wanted 1t all to end. That was the
excuse : made tc myself, but it was
only an excuse. The real despair
came when saw you flying, saw how
gloriously free you were up there, and
thought 1t wasn't love that kept you
| here beside me, but only pity Well,
sort of love, perhaps, but not what
wanted. not what l felt for you. I'd
seen you draw away when l touched
you"
She heard a sound In his throat
that might have been sob, though II
seemed meant for a laugh, and she
felt his arms tighten about her with
sudden passion that almost hurt. So
she said no more, just kissed him and
lay still.
1t was a good while after that that
she made a move to release herself
Let me go now" she said, land III
get you some supper, or breakfast, OF
! whatever we decide to call it-only
you'll have to go down into the ice
cave to get some more supplies. We've
nothing much left up here"
She dropped down on a heap oil
bear-skins before the open door, and
sat gazing out at the black velvety
patch of sky which capped the snow
tunnel. Even when she heard Cayley
coming back up the Ice chimney she
did not Immediately turn to look al
him. 1t was, in a way, a sort of lux
ury not to; to think that If she waited
she would presently hear his steI
come nearer and feel his hands upon
her shoulders.
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all. The Walrus people never dis
covered the ice chimney nor the pilot
house. That's perfectly clear. II they
had they would have riled 1t long
ago.
when finish, I'll come back to
you. l don't think l shall be gone
very long. You aren't to be afraid for
me. and you can trust me to be care
full. l know l have your life In my
hands as we'll as my own. Your part
is harder than mine; l quite under
stand that. You must be keeping
watch every second. If he eludes me
and comes here, you must shoot him,
without word or warning. Shoot to
kill"
"But I sha'n't have the revolver!
There was an electric moment OF
silence between them, while she gazed
into his face, Mortified at the meaning
she read there.
you didn't mean that! Philip,
Philip-you can't mean that. And
leave you to face that monster I'M
armed"
81 shall have the only weapon that
will be of any service to me, my knife.
It's got to be done at close quarters.
| couldn't possibly shoot him from the
air. But if can alight near him and
come up within striking distance he
will have no chance with me, not with
all his strength"
NO." she said, resolutely, II won't
let you go. Not that way"
Listen, Jeanne. If l can find him,
I can kill him. Do you know what the
movements of ordinary men, even I'M
usually quick men, look like to me?
Like the motions of marionettes. The
only chance Roscoe has against me Is
of picking me off at long range with
his rifle. He could do that whether
| had revolver or not. And If he did,
if he killed me and had the revolver,
then-well. then he would come here
and find you-defenseless. Don't you
see? / couldn't take the revolver.
should be unnerved with terror from
the moment l left you"
With a sob she clasped her arms
about his neck and held him tight.
Then, in tragic submission. they
dropped away.
Without saying anything more, Cay
lev blew out the candle, opened the
door into the tunnel and took up his
furled wings. With trembling hands
she helped him spread them and draw
them taut-
AS he adjusted the straps across his
shoulders, he felt her hands again.
upon his head, felt them clasp behind
his neck.
"Goodby," she said.
He was trembling all over, as her
hands were, but it was not with fear.
81 shall come back SAFE" he said.
Nothing can harm me tonight"
He pulled her up close In his en-
folding arms and kissed her mouth.
In an instant he turned and dived of
the cliff-head into the night.
He headed up into the wind, and
hung for a moment soaring upon q
fairly steady current of air that
poured along parallel to the cliff.
When he reached the glacier he
checked his speed a little and
slanted down to an altitude of not
more than two or three hundred feet
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TOPICS FOR DENVER
LAND CONVENTION

Following is a tentative list of
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by papers, at the public lands eonven-
tion, to be held at Denver, September
$3.50, 1911:
The Issue.
What should be done with our graz
ing lands.
The homestead principle made appli-
cable to the grazer.
What should be done with our west
ern forests?
What province should the state ex-
ercise respecting water powersf
What province should the state ex-
ercise respecting coal, oil, gas and
phosphate lands2
Private irrigation enterprise com
pared with government reclamation.
Development.
The possibilities of Western water
powers.
Power energized by water falls com
pared with power energized by coal.
The possibilities of dry farming.
The proper development of the re-
sort and recreation resource of our
mountain country.
Good roads essential to our best de-
velopment and the problem presented
by conditions peculiar to the west.
Economics.
Practical economics practiced by
the lumber industry.
Practical economics practiced in
coal mining.
Practical economies practiced in
coal consumption.
Practical economies practiced by
railroads.
Practical economics practiced in
metalliferous mining and smelling.
The forest resource; the supply.
consumption and annual growth.
Governmental.
A portrayal of American bureau
cratic government.
The wise and beneficent results of
our public land policy.
State conservation VS.. Federal con
servation.
Federal revenue compared with 10
cal or state revenues.
The Federal special agent system
A menace to the safety of our re
publican institutions.
Individualism VS.. eollectivism as
each affect the interests of the west.
The un-American government ac-
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The demand for access to the courts
upon all questions arising from de
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public domain.
Injustice of the public land policy
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Application No. 1888.
Notice of Application for Permission
to Appropriate the Public
Waters Of the State Of
Nevada.

Notice is hereby given that on the
9th day of March, 1911, in accordance
with Section 25, Chapter XXI, of the
Statutes of 1909, one The Golconda
Gold Ledge Mining Co., a corporation,
of Golconda, County of Humboldt, and
State of Nevada, made application to
the State Engineer of Nevada for per-
mission to appropriate the public wa
tiers of the State of Nevada. Such APP
preparation is to be made from Pole
Creek, at points in SWA of NEA
section IL, township 35 north, range 80
east, by means of a small dam, and
one quarter cubic feet per second is to
be conveyed to points in the NEA of
NWA section s, township 35 north,
range 40 east, by means of pipe line,
and there used for mining and milling
purposes. Water to be returned to
stream at NWA Of NWH section 5,
township 35 north, range 40 east. .
Signed: w. M. kEARNEY,
State Engineer.
First publication, March %, 1911.
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Application No. 1889.
of Application for Permission
to Appropriate the Public
Waters of the State Of
Nevada.

Notice is hereby given that on the
18th day of March, 1911, in accordance
with Section 25, Chapter XXI, of the
statutes of 1909, f. j. Delano, J. A.
Comes and Milo r. O'Dell, of Golcon.
la, County of Humboldt, and State OF
Nevada, made application to the State
Engineer of Nevada for permission to
appropriate the public waters of the
State of Nevada. Such appropriation
s to be made from No Name Canyon
It points in NEh of SWA section 2,
ownship 35 north, range 80 east, by
means Of a small dam and headgate
and five cubic feet per second is TO be
conveyed to points in lots l, 2, 6 and
Z, Ell of SWA; NWA of SEA and
SWA of NEA section 6, township 80
aorth, range 40 east, by means OF often
and reservoir and there used for irri-
cation. Water not to be returned to
stream.
Signed: w. M. kEAhNEi,
State Engineer
First publication, March 30, 1911.
Last publication, April ~, 1911.
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Application No. 1881.

Application No. 1881.
of Application for Permission
to Appropriate the Public
Waters Of the State Of
Notice IL hereby given that on the
18th day Of March, 1911, in accordance
with Section 25, Chapter XXI, of
the Statutes of 1909, one Lavina A.
Dewitt, Of Chafey, County of Hum
boldt, and State Of Nevada, made ap-
plication to the State Engineer of Ne
vada for permission to appropriate
the public waters of the State of Ne
vada. Such appropriation is to be
made from Leach's Hot Spring, at
points in SEA Of NWA section SO,
township 80 north, range 3S east, by
means of an open cut, and eight (S)
cubic feet per second is to be conveyed
to points in the NWA of SWA and
NWA of section SO, the SEA
of NEA and NEA of SEA section 35,
township 32 north, range 3S east, by
means of ditch and pipe line, and there
used for irrigation and domestic pur-
poses. Water to be returned to stream
in NEA of section 35, township 81
north, range 38 east.
Signed: ]. R. VAN NAGELL,
Assistant State Engineer
First publication, March 81, 1911.
Last publication, April Is, 1911.
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Application No. 1901.
Notice of Application for Permission
to Appropriate the Public
Waters Of the State Of

Notice is hereby given that ON the
29th day of March, 1911, in accordance
with Section 25, Chapter XXI, of the
Statutes of 1909, James F. Boyle and
Minnie Stenson, of Golconda, County
Of Humboldt, and State of Nevada,
made application to the State Engineer
of Nevada for permission to appro-
pirate the public waters of the State
Of Nevada. Such appropriation is to
be made from Spring Branch Creek,
at points in NWA of SWA section 1,
township SO north, range AZ east, by
means of dam and ditch and three
cubic feet per second is to be convey
ed to points in east half and SWH
section 2, township SO north, range AZ
east, by means of ditch, and there used
for irrigation purposes. Water not to
be returned to stream.
Signed: W. M. KEARNEY,
State Engineer.
First publication, March 80, 1911.
Last publication. April 81, 1911.
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Application No. 1892.
Notice Of Application for Permission
to Appropriate the Public
+, Waters Of the State Of


Notice is hereby given that on the
10Th dag of March, 1911, in accordance
with Section 25, Chapter XXI, of the
Statutes of 1909, James F. Boyle
and Minnie Stenson, of Golconda,
County of Humboldt, and State of Ne
vada, made application to the State
Engineer of Nevada for permission to
appropriate the public waters of the
State of Nevada. Such appropriation
is to be made from branch of Spring
Branch Creek, at points in SWA of
SWA section SO, township 81 north,
range AZ east, by means of dam and
ditch, and three cubic feet per second
is to be conveyed to points in east half
md SWA section 2, township SO north,
range AZ east, by means of ditch, and
there used for irrigation purposes.
Water not to be returned to stream.
Signed: w. M. kEARNEY,
State Engineer.
First publication, March 80, 1911.
Last publication, April q, 1911.
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