The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20
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CHAPTER I.-Philip Cayley. accused ef |. crime of which he is net guilty. resigns er.yr the. army in disgrace. his affection Cor his intimate friend, Lieut.. Perry Hunt q sr turned to hatred. Cayley seeks soil ,ude. where he perfects A flying machine, 4 consisting of pair of great wings, whose motive force Is the muscular power of his avn body. While soaring over the Arctic regions, he picks up curiously shaped I stick he had seen in the assassin's hand Mounting again. he discovers a yacht an- chored in tho bay. Descending near the steamer. he meets 6 girl on an ice 1oe. CHAPTER u.-He learns that the girls \ name is Jeanne Fielding and that the yacht has come north to seek signs of her father Captain Fielding. an arctic ex- ulorer. A party from the yacht Is ma- king 6 search ashore. He volunteers to make a search of the land. After he de- uarts Jeanne finds that Cayley had dropped a curiously-shaped stick. CHAPTER III-Unknown to those on inc yacht, Captain Planck and the sur viying crew of his wrecked whaler are in hiding on the coast giant rufnan named Roscoe. member of the crew. had murdered Fielding and his two com panions, after the explorer had revealed the location of an enormous ledge of 
 the party, and at the approach of the steamer had removed all signs of habita- tion. It develops that the ruffan had committed the murder witnessed by Cay lev Roscoe plans to capture the yacht and escape with big load of gold
 CHATTER Iv--Jeanne tells her guard ian Mir Fanshaw. owner of the yacht about the visit of the sky-man and shows him the stick left by Cayley as proof that 1t was not dream. Fanshaw de- clares that 1t is an Eskimo throwing stick used to shoot darts. Tom Fanshaw returns from the searching party with a spralned ankle. Tom tells Jeanne of Cay icv's disgrace. Perry Hunter is found murdered.
 CHAPTER v.-Cayiey, the slSy-man. visits the yacht. He is accused of the murder of Hunter and the throwing-sticls Is produced as evidence against him. He denies the charge and tells of seeing group of men with Hunter when he was siain Jeanne assures Cayley of her faith ln hi.-. having discovered that the throw Ing-stiek was made for a left-handed man. while the sky-man is right-handed.
 CHAPTER VIA relief party is sent ashore to find the searchers. Tom pro- fesses his love for Jeanne. after a quar- rel with her over the sky-man. Jeanne is shocked at the revelation, as she had always regarded Tom as a brother. Later Tom searches for Jeanne. and finds her missing from the yacht. Roscoe and his gang board the yacht and Tom is knocked serseess
 CHAPTER vTT.-Jeanne rows ashore in q small boat. She enters an abandoned hut. and there finds evidence of It's previ1 ous occupancy by her father. Tn q roses wood box Jeanne finds her fathers diary. In the last entry the explorer says that he fears Roscoe intends to kill him.
 CHATTER VIII Roscoe and his men stow the slabs of gold away in the yacht
 The rufnan is enraged because supersti- uo's sailors refuse to return for the rose wood box. and Roscoe goes himself Ht sees Jeanne boring over her fathers diary. and thinks he sees q ghost. yeAuaF leaves the hut and Roscoe starts for her intent on murder. when the sky-man s"oops down and the ruffian fees fin ter TOT He bears shots from the Aurora. CRATER Ix.--cayiey and Jeanne also near the shots. Jeannes boat is miss- ins They return to the hut to pass the msnt' Jeanne gives Cayley her fathers
 CHAPTER x-Next morning they 6nd that Be yacht has disappeared
 CHAPTER xI.-Captain Warner of the Aurora declares to Tanshaw and his son mat it Is impossible to return for Jeanne, mat the vessel would be crushed by the iee Hoes Dying. Captain Planck tells of noscoes plans to capture the yacht Tho ruthan's presence on the shore adds to Fsnshsw's anxiety about Jeanne The her.
 CHATTER xII.-Cayiey assures Jeanne si his confidence in the recapture of the ysoht by Fanshaw's people. kn entry in her fathers diary reveals to Jeanne the seHousness of their situation and tbe hopelessness of immediate rescue
 CHAPTER xTrI.-Jsanne and the sky man set about making tho hut more com portable. They plan to search for supplies hidden by the explorer Jeanne is fright ened by glimpse of something resemb- Ing polar bear.
 CHAPTER xIv.-cayley kfEs poiaT pear. Search Is made through the eA p,orers diary for a clue to the hiding p'ace Of his supplies Her fathers de- scripuon of the monster. Roscoe, areuses ,n Jeanne the horror that he and his gang may bs sharing their solitude
 CHATTER xv.-Cayley finds a clue 'o me hiding place of the stores A cold oss'ar is discovered in the hut and in it a ,usnimney-iks hole leading straight up through the ice.