, 1911-02-16

"Dld You Ever q Know q Man Named
Philip cayIsy, Tomf"
mont. It seems to me. as / think back
to u days at the Point-of course,
my memory may be playing me a
trick-but 1t seems to me hat sven
then Cayley was interested in the
navigation of the air. Somebody kept
q scrap-book of all that the newspa-
pers and magazines reported on the
subject, any a 1 remember seeing
It think 1t was Cayley.
81 lost sight of him and Hunter
when they went to the Philippines. It
is only Justice to Hunter to say that
! heard a word Of the thing that
happened out there from him. He
never seemed to wan to talk to me
about 1t, and, Of course. I never forced
him. We'll, / can make a short story
of 1t. any way. though It has Il be a
nasty one.
"A man came into the post one day.
ing villages out there, q 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 20 into
the details of that-and nogged nearly
to death. He said that Cayley had
done it. He had demonstrated with
Cayley, he said, because he feared
for his daughters safety-she was a
nrpffy piri UhItar than her fufhAr--
int 1t seems that the mans fears had
some Justification. 1t appears that
Cayley had come out there, blind
drunk. with a couple of troopers. who
deserted that same night. and man.
handled the old man. The girl Joined in
her fathers accusation, at least she
didn't deny anything. I'll
"Cayley was away on scout duty ut
the time when the man came in-the
thing had happened some days prior.
Just before he started out, 1t came
k q thunderbolt out of a clear sky.
for everybody liked Cayley and
thought him an exceptionally decent,
clean sort Of chap, though he and
Hunter both were drinking a good deal
Just then. Poor Hunter was all
broken up about it. Everybody be-
lieved that he really knew some in,
eliminating facts against Cayley. but
he never would speak. .
AS for Cayley himself, he made no
defense whatever. He denied he did
1t, and that was all. There wasn't
any real corroborative evidence
against him, SO the c~ourt-martial dis
missed the case Ii not proved. But
he wouldn't testify himself. o have
a single witness called In his behalf.
and he resigned from the service then
and there, and disappeared, so far as
know, from the world. heard he
had a ranch down somewhere in New
Mexico. near Sandoval, / think the
place was" .
His father saw a quick tightening In
the girls horror-stricken eyes at the
sound Of the name. which evidently,
in some way. helped corroborate the
story to her. but he did not question
her about 1t.
There was q silence after that,
while the three out there on the Au-
rora's deck looked blankly into each
others faces.
The silence was broken at last, by
none Of them. but by q hail from the
shore. Alloy. Aurora" cried She
voice.
Mr.. Fanshaw answered with a wav
Of his arm. That's Donovan" he
said to the others; then. Yes; what
Is it," he cried. .... ....E
VIII you send dinghy for me.
pleased"
The boat was dispatched at once.
and while they waited. Mr.. Fanshaw
borrowed %Jeanne's held-glasses for a
look at the man who had hailed them.
He's in a hurry" said the old gentle
man. He looks If he had news OF
one sort OF another" They all had
felt II In the mere timber of his voice
something urgent; something omin-
1t seemed an intsrminable while be-
fore the returning boat came along
side the foo Of the accommodation
ladder. When the nsw-comer appear.
ed at the head Of 1t, his face had
plainly written on It the story of
some tragedy.
What Is TT" Jeanne asked, not
cry steadily. "oh, please don't try to
break it to mel Tell me. Just as you
do the others"
ITS nothing concerning you. miss.
not especially. l mean; nothing to do
with your father" Then he turned to
Mr.. Fanshaw. II found Mr.. Hunter.
sir"
"Dead7" The tone in which Dono-
van had spoken made the question
hardly necessary.
Yes. sir. His body 10 lodged deep
down in n of the ice assures in the
glacier. l could see 1t perfectly.
though l couldn't get down to It,"
Tom Fanshaw covered his face with
his hands for a moment. Then he
looked up and asked. steadily: "He
slipped. l suppose?"