Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-07-14
CHAPTER IV.-Continued.


She was addressing the elder man
as she spoke, and as she mentioned
the name-it was the first time she
had mentioned 1t to any one-she
saw him shoot startled inquiring
glance at his son. Following 1t, she
met Tom Fanshaw's eyes staring at
her in utter amazement.
"Cayley." he said, half under his
breath; Philip Cayley-"
That was the name" she an
swered-
And yet, I'd be willing to swear"
he said, i've never mentioned that
name to you in my life."
NO" she said why should you?
heard it before when he told me it
was his" She hesitated a moment;
then: did you ever know man
named Philip Cayley, Tom?"
He let the question go by, unheeded,
and. for long time, gazed silently
out over the land. II suppose" he
said at last, that a coincidence like
strange enough, will bring touch of
supersitous fear to anybody | never
had even touch of it before, in all
my life; and I always had little feel
Ing OF contempt for the men who
showed it. But now-well, well, |
wish poor old Hunter hadn't strayed
away last night. l wasn't alarmed
hnfnrn
ground for alarm about him now.
Only"
He did not go on until she prompted
him with question. And has the
slsy-man, Philip Cayley, anything to
do with the coincidence?"
Still it was little while before he
spoke. 81 suppose I'd better tell you
the story-a part of 1t, at least; l
couldn't tell 1t all to you" He turned
to his father. "You, l think, already
know it," Then with evident reluc-
tance, he began telling the story to
Jeanne.
There was a man named Philip
Cayley," he said, "in Hunters class at
the Point, three classes ahead of me,
that was. He and Hunter were chums,
the David and Jonathan you know,
of their class. l remember what a
stroke of luck for them everybody
thought 1t was when they were as
signed to service in the same regi-
ment. 1t seems to me, as think back
to our days at the Point-of course,
my memory may be playing me a
trick-but 1t seems to me that even
then Cayley was interested in the
navigation of the air. Somebody kept
scrap-book of all that the, pewspa.
pers and magazines reported on the
subject, any way; / remember seeing
1t. l think it was Cayley.
81 lost sight of him and Hunter
when they went to the Philippines. II
is only Justice to Hunter to say that
] never heard word of the thing that
happened out there from him. He
never seemed to want to talk to me
about it, and, of course, never forced
him. Well, / can make a short story
of 1t, any way, though 1t has to be @
nasty one.
"A man came into the post one day
the head man of one of the neighbor
ing villages out there, man with
white blood in him-Spanish blood
They carried him in, for he couldn't
walk. He was in horrible condition
He had been tortured-I won't go into
the details of that-and flogged nearly
to death. He said that Cayley had
done 1t. He had demonstrated with
Cayley, he said, because he feared
for his daughters safety-she was 6
pretty girl, whittier than her father
and II seems that the mans fears haC
some Justification. 1t appears tina
Cayiey had come out there, blint
drunk, with a couple of troopers. whit
deserted that same night, and man
handled the old man. The girl Joined II
her fathers accusation, at least sh,
didn't deny anything.
"Cayley was away on scout duty a
the time when the man came in-th'
thing had happened some days prior
Just before he started out It cam'
like a thunderbolt out of clear sky
for everybody liked Cayley an,
thought him an exceptionally decent
clean sort of chap. though he an,
Hunter both were drinking good dea
just then. Poor Hunter was al
broken up about II. Everybody be
lieyed that ne really knew some in