Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-07-07
Observation-Disclosures
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wing from there"
You never can dig out enough snow
to get running start up there" she
objected.
Il sha'n't have to. I'll Just dive off
the cliff"
Philip, you sha'n't!"
why not?"
You know what you told me your
self. That none of the big birds can
take to the air without a running
start; and about taking pelicans and
birds like that up into high buildings
and throwing them out of windows,
and how they were always killed"
That's because they've only got
instinct instead of intelligence. None
of their family had over been thrown
out of windows before, and they didn't
know what to do. But can get my
start quite as safely that way as any
other. Oh, yes, I've done 1t. Do you
imagine, Jeanne dear, that I'd take an
unnecessary risk so long as my life
is the only possible protection there
Is for yours"
He spent the rest of the day tun-
nelling out from the observatory. He
did not dig in the snow; he simply
packed it, gradually enlarging the
space from a section the size of the
pilot house door to a space at the
cliffs edge wide enough for the full
spread of his wings.
Jeanne was watching on the beach
this aerie, and, in spite of her con-
fidence in his powers, she endured a
horrible moment or two. For he came
hurting down, head first, at an angle
of 60 degrees; and he had traversed
two-thirds of the distance to the beach
before his line DETECTED outward and
began curving up toward the hori-
Zontal
When she saw that he was safe,
that he had really done the thing he
had said he could, she dropped down
upon a bearskin, which was spread
before the hut, and shut her eyes, for
what she had seen had turned her
bit giddy.
That feeling passed In moment.
She opened her eyes and lay, stretch
ed at full length, upon the bear-skin,
watching him as he wheeled and
dipped, then lowered aloft again in
that fading violet sky, supremely
masterful majestically dominant OF
the unstable element he had con-
quered.
She sat up suddenly, erect, upon
the bear skin, with the realization that
1t was nearly dark. Their hours OF
daylight were getting very scanty
now. Today's allowance was gone, al
though it was not yet three in the aft
ernoon.
She looked aloft for Cayley, but
could not see him. Then, the next
moment, she heard the whine of the
air through his rigging, and he sailed
down on long slant and alighted be-
side her.
He got clear of hia Eianes with an
unaccountable air OF haste, and held
out both hands to help her rise
What do we do with sentinels who
go to sleep on duty" he questioned
with a laugh.
81 wasn't asleep" she said contrite-
ly, but it was just about as bad. |
was thinking" She paused there,
then added, about you. What's the
sentence of the court?"
Already he had his wings folded up
and was handing them to her
THE sentence is that you shall be
frightened with a bear story. There's
a big one coming down the beach ait
er you this very moment, and you re
to surrender the revolver to me and
stay under arrest in the nut until alt-
er | have killed him
She did not need to be told that ne
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 Cayiey on
the doorstep.
He's been wounded When | was
overhead | 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?"
NO, that's not likely
She asked no further explanation,
but slipped into the hut. the next
moment she was back with the neio-
| glasses.
While you're attending to the
bear" she said in a whisper, IN Just
keep watch up the beach for-for any
one else"
had made one dIf-