, 1911-06-22
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soon. Cayley's arrival in his absence
really gave him an immense adyap
age. A man always comes unwarily
into the place he calls home. III Ros.
coe came back now he would have no
chance at all against Cayley's quick
spring and the fash OF the long knife
blade.
Certainly 1t was reasonable to ex.
pect that Roscoe would wait for an
other moonrise before setting out on
any serious sort of expedition. and. II
that assumption were correct. he
might be returning to the cave at any
moment
He strobe abruptly back to the cave.
mouth. AS he did SO. however. his
eye alighted on something that made
him pause-something SO strangely
out OF keeping with its surroundings
that 1t caused him-or he thought that
was the sense of recogni.
ton, almost Of familiarity.
The thing which 80 evidently did
not belong to Roscoe that 1t seemed
almost to belong to Philip himself,
was a gold locket. 1t lay on a fat bit
OF rock. which seemed to serve Ros-
Goes purpose as a table. The objects
which surrounded it-an irregular
piece of raw walrus hide, an over
turned bottle of whale oil. with a
smadgy wick in 1t. a sailmakers
ured Q and some rawlings Of canvas,
together with some scraps OF food-all
spoke SO loud of Roscoe and made such
a contrast with this bit of jewelry that
Cayley's action in STOPPING t o pick it
up was automatic.
He held 1t in his hand a moment as
II he did not know quite what to do
with it, then put 1t in his pocket and
went out of the cave. Only during
the moment when 1t had first caught
his y had It really commanded his
attention at all. BY the time he got
outside Of the cave he had forgotten
It.
Two or three breaths OF the clear
air outside Of the cave were all he
needed to revive him, physically. But
to his surprise they did not suffice to
rid him Of the feeling which he re-
garded as superstitious, namely, the
impulse to fly back to Jeanne as fast
as wing could carry him.
He had every reason to believe hat
she was safe, lie told himself. She
was armed with q heavy revolver, was
a good shot and had plenty of nerve.
She was in a place. the only avenue
of access to which would give her a
tremendous advantage over n in
vader. So that, even supposing the
worst-supposing that Roscoe's at
to make an attack on the pilot
house, there could hardly be a doubt
that Jeanne would kill him.
His reasoning was all based on the
that the pilot house was
to any wingless creature
except by way Of the Ice chimney.
Even now, when his fear for the girl
was amounting to a superstition Of al
most irresistible intensity. 1t did not
occur to him to question that.
He steadied himself as best he could
and crouched down in the shelter Of
the big rock to await Roscoe's return.
He had hardly settled himself here
when he saw something that made
him shake his head impatiently. n
swear q little. 1t was the winking
glow Of an aurora borealis, of to the
north.
Cayley gazed at the spectacle unwill-
lngly, but still he gazed. And, some
how. though he fought the feeling des-
perately. 1t began to assume a per-
sonal Significance to him-a signif-
canoe of mockery. The whole sky was
.quivering with vast, silent laughter.
Was 1t because he. with his fancied