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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-10
ROOMS AND BOARD.

FURNISHED ROOMS-Nicely furnished
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much with rife; and he remember
ed the deadly revolver shooting he
had seen upon the body of the bear.
Also, he would have to go into the
dark, with the freight behind him.
No. 1t wouldn't do. He must wait.
Well, he could afford to wait-much
better than they could.
Reluctantly he rose, turned his
broad back to the gale, and began ma
king his laborious way back to the
cave.
1t was high time. His face was
frozen already. The Intensity OF the
cold had already rendered his rife
useless, for the whole mechanism of
the breech was frozen fast. His STRAIT
agem had failed in it's ultimate inten.
ton, for nature had laid her great icy
hand upon the board and for the pres
eut declared the game draw.
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what once had been a s,-irt, suficed,
to put it into commission again.
Then, with the rife over his shout
der, he staggered out of the cave
With his first glance abroad, he
started His devil was being kind to
him today. There could be no doubt
of that Only. was he being too kind?
Roscoe wondered a little uneasily.
For, stumbling along the ice. through
the thickening twilight, not 100 PAGES
away, was a big bear. Roscoe was
tired of walrus meat The thought OF
a bear steak made his mouth water.
Three years disuse, however, had
made his craftsmanship somewhat
uncertain. He fired too soon, ana
though he did not miss, the only eff
feet his shot had was to make the
bear turn about and go shambling
down the glacier toward the beach,
with ungainly haste. Roscoe hurried
after him, and fired two more shots
Whether they hit or not, he could not
tell Certainly they did not serve to
check the bears fight. The next mo-
ment he had rounded the corner OF
the cliff and disappeared down the
beach in the direction of the hut.
Roscoe hesitated, but only for
moment; then, with an oath, he set
out in pursuit. It was not SO much
the protection which the rifle afforded
him that was responsible for this new
courage as it was that the mere feel
of it in his hands brought him back
in touch once more with the every
day matter of fact world, and made
his visions and ghosts seem a little
unreal
1t was fully dark down here in the
shadow of the cliff The numbering vel
low shape of the bear was indistin-
guishable against the icy beach. That
didn't matter, for he could follow
along well enough by the bloody
tracks the wounded beast had left.
The last Of the twilight was still in
the sky, and half his glances We're
directed tnither, looking for some
thing which he told himself could rot
possibly exist, except in his own
fancy, yet fully expected to see never
theless, the shadow of Cayley's great
wings And at last he saw it i'm
pending in the lower air, like brood
ing spirit, just above the tiny square
of light which marked the location Of
the hut.
Roscoe abandoned his pursuit of the
bear; all thought of it, in fact, was
gone from his mind; but he did not,
as on a former occasion, drop down
prone upon the ground his face buried
in his arms; nor did he turn and flee
like cne hag-ridden up the beach. He
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GYNOPSIS.

Philip Cayiey. accused of crime OF
which he is not guilty resigns from the
his friend. Lieut. Perry Hunter, turns to
hatred. Cayley seeks solitude, where he
perfects 4 flying machine. While soaring
over the Arctic regions. he picks up
curious1y shaped stick he had seen in the
assassin's hand. Mounting again. he dis
covers yacht anchored in the bay. De-
girl on an ice foe. He learns that the
girls name Is Jeanne Fielding and tbGt
the yacht has come north 70 seer signs
of her father. Captain Fielding an arctic
explorer. a party from the yacht is ma
king seSrc3 ashore After Cayley departs
Jeanne finds that he had dropped a GU,
the surviving crew of his wrecked whaler
are in hiding on the coast. giant ruf-
man named Roscoe, had murdered flel0lhg
and his two companions, after the eX-
plorer had revealed the location OF an
enormous ledge of pure gold. Roscoe then
took command IF the party. 1t develops
70 capture the. Yacht and escape with a
owner of the yacht. about the visit Of the
Sky,nan and shows him the stick left oy
Eskimo throwing stick, used to shoot
darts Tom Faashaw returns from the
searching party with a sprained ankle;
Perry Hunter is found murdered ana
Cayley is accused of the crime but Jeanne
believes him innocent. A relief party goes
70 md the searchers. Tom processes ms
love for Jeanne She rows ashore ana
enters an abandoned hut, and there f1nds
her fathers diary, which discloses the ex-
plorer's suspicion of Roscoe. The ruff
fan returns to the hut and sees Jeanne
He is intent on, murder. when the sky
man swoops down esaG the ruffian fees
Jeanne gives Cayley her fathers diary
20 read. The yacht disappears Ros-
GOES plans to capture it are revealed,
Jeannes only hope is in Cayley. The
seriousness. Of their situation becomes ap-
parent to Jeanne and the sky-man. cay
ley kills polar bear. Next he fnds a
clue TO the hiding place of the stores.
Roscoe is about to attack the girl when
he is sent fleeing in terror by the sight
of the sky-man swooping down. Measures
are taken. to fortfy the hut
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rage against the two who had bafded
him and enjoyed immunity from him
so long, almost led him to attempt to
break into the hut then and there, and
settle matters; but his saner common
sense told him that the settlement
wo.ld almost inevitably be against
him should he attempt it.
He was still entertaining this no.
ton, however, when a luminous idea
side of the hut, the west side, which
looked toward the headlands, was a
good-sized heap of f1re-wood, which
Philip had not been able to find
room for inside the hut. Roscoe had
with him flint and steel and
quantity of tow He never travelled
without them.
With infinite precaution against
noise he began laying fire against
the WindWard wall of the hut. Squat
ting, with his rifle across his knees
ready to use in case of an emergency,
he methodically Whitfield a quantity OF
dry splinters off a few of the sticks,
ignited them and carefully nursed the
blaze, until, under the rising wind 1t
grew to the beginning of fair-sized
conf1agration. Then, catching up his
rifle, he slipped around the other side
of the hut, crouching down not more
than 20 PAGES away, and waited.
Already the fire was burning finely
and the silhouetted outline Of the hut
was plain againct the glow of it.
His plan was a good one. The peo-
pie inside the hut would have no
choice and, probably, no thought, but
of escape When they rushed out, as
they almost certainly would, bewild-
cred and confused, and plainly visible
to him against the glow Of the fire be-
hind them, it would be easy, from the
safe shelter of the darkness. to shoot
the man.
1t was only, indeed, by the merest
hairs breadth that Roscoe's plain
failed to work The instinct of es-
cape by tbs nearest way from burn
.ug building is almost irresistible, and
it led Philip and Jeanne to the very
edge Of the destruction, which Rcscoc
had planned fer them.
Cayley had his hand upon the bo-,
of the great door, whittier he had
sprung when Jeanne's cry had awak-
ened him, before the saving second
thought stayed him and held him
frozen where he was For perhaps
five seconds he stood there, while the
memory of the unexplained bullet hole
he had found in the body OF the great
bear, and the belated observation that
the fire. which was destroying the hut,
must have been started outside Of it, |
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That's why | sent you into the nut.
It occurred to me that he might be
following the bear, and that the light
ed windows might give him chance
for a shot at one of us. No matter
what superstitious fears he has, ne
could hardly be too much afraid to hre
at us from a safe distance, If we hap
pened to offer fair mark.
But we must have offered him that
a hundred times in the last weeks,
that is, If his rifle had anything like
a modern range.
That bullet is certainly modern
piece of ordnance" said Cayley Its
soft-nosed and steel-jacketed."
He laid it down on shelf and went
into the storeroom to wash the stains
of the encounter from his hands.
After ALL" he said, Its only one
more mystery, and l don't know that
one more can make any great differ
ence Not in our way of life, GER
tainly:"
Both tried to stick to that view of
it and. for the present, to dismiss
conjecture upon the new topic from
their minds. but they did not succeed
very we'll The idea that forced itself
upon them, in spite of their attempt to
discredit 1t, was that Roscoe's acqui-
sition of modern, long-range weapon
with ammunition to match did not
date back to the murder of Captain
Fielding, nor to the disappearance OF
the Aurora, but that he had found the
weapon, by some strange chance. only
very recently, perhaps within a day
or two. It was disQuieting thought,
at best.
1t was time for Cayley to turn in
and for Jeanne to begin her evening
watch alone, but before that happened
they paid an extra amount of atten-
ton to the security of their doors and
windows.
1t was little before IL o'clock
when Cayley came out of a deep sleep
to find her bending over him, shaking
, him by the shoulder and crying out
his name.
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Philip had been enjoying, he was,
again, the very man who, during those
long years Of exile, had dominated
crew and captain of the Walrus and
bent them to his will.
He was returning from the ledge
along the crown of the glacier, when,
on the day of this discovery, he found
that his accustomed path was inter-
rupted by new assure in the ice; it
had occurred since he had come that
way in the morning, and was too
broad to leap across. So he was forced
to descend by the rougher and more
difficult track which lay along the
moraine.
Before he had gone three PAGES
along this track his eye made out
something, just off his patch and lit
to utter snarl of anger, but led him
the next moment to give wild bias
phemous yell of joy.
The great fissure which had opened
in the ice had done, in an instant,
what the party from the Aurora had
failed to do after hours of hard labor
it had yielded up the body Of Perry
Hunter, which. during all these
months, it had kept imprisoned
Strapped across the dead mans
shoulders, just where he had carried
it in life, was rife and around his
middle belt full of cartridges.
The next instant Roscoe was bend
ing over the body. Jerking sayagely
at the frozen buckles which resisted
his impatient fingers. But they were
not to be denied If they were clum-
sy, the hands were strong.
1t was not five minutes later when
Roscoe, rifle and ammunition belt in
his hands, was hurrying on toward his
cave once more. The body lay Just
where his Decorating hands had left
it.
The rifle was uninjured; that he had
seen at a glance. though of course,
all the mechanism OF its breech was
frozen fast But half hours hard
work with cleaning rod and rags of
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EJGER8B8NS EBFIEEAS w. ROSSE2

none of Cayley's shots could have ac-
counted for, he explored with prac-
tised hand
Watching him as he did so, the
girl could see that he had found some
thing unexpected, something which
surprised him greatly. And there
was more than surprise. There was
alarmed urgency in his voice when he
spoke to her. He offered no explana-
ton. Merely told her to go into the
hut and make fast the solid wooden
shutters over the windows. He would
come in and would tell her what it
was all about, in a moment
The girl had hardly finished the
task he had given her, when he came
in. In his blood-stained hand he was
holding out something for her inspec-
ton.
Conquering feeling of repugnance,
she bent over the hand, cast one
glance at the thing it contained and
then started up and gazed, wide-eyed,
into his face.
"A bullet!' she said "But-but we
thought that Roscoe wasn't armed
not with fire arms, mean
Cayley nodded But this seems to
be pretty good evidence that he is.
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faltered, it is true, and his knees
trembled beneath him. and yet, slow
~ and with many pauses he made his
way forward
He was horribly afraid all the time,
but curiosity was all the while over
towering fear He was not more than
200 yards away when Cayley alighted
beside the girl.
At what he saw then, Roscoe
dropped his rifle on the beach, with a
whispered oath, and rubbed his eyes.
The light which diffused itself from
the open window of the hut was not
much, but it was enough to reveal the
fact that this great man-bird, this
golden-wing spirit which had kept
him in terror for his own sanity all
these months, was taking of his wings
and folding them up into bundle, in
as matter-of-fact way as If he were
furling an umbrella He stood there
now, just an ordinary human figure
of man; the very man, in fact, that
he had seen before and would have
killed long ago had it not been for his
over-mastering terror of the thing
with wings.
He presented fair mark now. and
was in easy range, but Roscoe was too
thoroughly astoDfshed to seize the OPP
portunity, and in moment it was
gone again. The two figures shrank
into the shadow of the hut, and the
next moment the light disappeared.
For a moment. an accession of
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CHAPTER XIX.
Roscoe.

Roscoe had never been able to clear
up his doubt as to Jeanne's identity,
nor to solve the mystery of Cayley's
appearance in the air. The doubt
and the mystery tormented him worse
than any final conviction could have
done. When he thought, as he some
times did, that the cause of all his
terror, the thing which kept him
penGed up here IA the cave and de-
MED him access to more than the fur
tive edges Of the beach, might be Just
a rather defenseless human couple, a
man ard woman, and the woman
beautiful, young, alluring he
thought of all that he would go OF
into transports of rage, which left
even his gigantic body limp and ex-
hausted. If that were the situation,
he might have killed the man weeks
ago and taken possession of the
woman.
The thing that kept him sane was,
in itself, species [ : insanity, the pas
sion for gold which had led him to
murder Captain Fielding. Every day
he tramped up the glacier to the gold
ledge and there, while the light lasted,
he worked, cutting the precious metal
out of the rock, and with infinite labor
beating it pure.
AS the weeks and months dragged
along, this UNMARRIED routine more than
compensated for the solitude and the
terrors his superstition thrust upon
him, and gradually restored him to his
old normal, formidable, brutal self
On the day when he made the discovery
that was to terminate the long series
of golden days which Jeanne and
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articulated themselves into a perfect
ly clear perception of Roscoe's plan.
''The other way! The other way"
he cried, nlotioning Jeanne back
through the storeroom. Into the
cave He is waiting for us outside.
That's why he fired the hut. Quick.
We must save all we can"
And so it happened that Roscoe
waited in vain He saw the blaze he
had kindled reach it's fiery climax,
and then in spite of the icy gale which
was tanning it, die down into an
angry, sullen, smou1dering glow. But
no man appeared to furnish a mark
for his waiting rife, and no woman
was delivered defenseless, shelterless.
into his british hands.
The failure Of his plan brought
back moment or two of the old sup
erstitious horror, but his mind was
braced against it now and did not
readily give way Somehow, the fail
ure must be accountable-hum ac-
countable.
At last he solved this mystery. too.
partly solved it, at least, for he re-
membered the Ice cave back of the
nut. His first impulse, when he
thought of it, was to attack them
there and now, to charge in over the
red hot Goals of the hut and settle
matters once and for all.
He was sane enough to see that the
advantage would be all against him.
In close quarters he could not dc
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CHAPTER XVlIl.--ContinueG.

THE sentence is that you shah be
frightened with bear story There's
a big one coming down the beach aft
.er you this very moment, and you're
to surrender the revolver to me and
stay under arrest in the hit until ait"
er l have killed him"
She did not need to be told that he
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 Cayley on
the doorstep.
Hes been wounded. When l was
overhead l could make out the blood
stains on his side, and he was leaving
track on the ice.
Wounded in 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 field
glasses.
While you're attending to the
bear" she said in a whisper, I'll just
Keep watch up the beach for-for any
one else
The past weeks had made one diff
ference in her attitude toward Cayley
which she was now aware of, as she
contrasted her sensations on seeing
=hi3ip step forward, out of the shelter
of the hut to confront the bear. with
those she had experienced when he
had set out on a similar errand once
before. She knew him now, and she
had no fear for him. The feeling
that thrilled her now was nearer akin
to pride than anything else.
Cayley fully justified her confidence.
The course the bear was taking would
have brought him within 20 yards of
their doorstep When he first caught
sight of Cayley he stopped, in two
minds, apparently, whether to be
hunted or to do the hunting himself.
Then, as Cayley advanced upon him
rather slowly he decided, Kissed at
him venomously and reared up.
He was already badly enough
wounded to have taken all the fight
out of any other sort of animal, but
half alive as he was, he cost Cayley
four cartridges. Three of those shots
tCayley was reasonably sure must have
entered a vital spot. The first one
took the bear between the eyes as he
was rising The second was fred into
his open mouth The third was prob
ably DETECTED by the massive fore
paw which he was holding across his
body, in the attitude of a boxer, The
fourth shot, however, penetrated his
throat and probably smashed one of
the two first vertebrae, for it seemed
to bring the monster down all in
heap, where he finally lay still Cay
ley could have reached him with his
foot.
Good shooting" said the girl quiet
1y from the little vestibule.
He reloaded the revolver. letting
the empty shells drop unheeded on
the ice at his feet. He gave the weap-
ON back to the girl, and bent over the
bear. (
I'm less interested in what | did
to him" he said, than in what he got
from the enemy who first attacked
him
The light was almost gone, so that
all he could see were two or three
irregular dark stains upon the white
FUR. A wound in the flank. which
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Get .ep qusekly!" she said when sne
saw that he was awake. Philip. the
hut's on fret A &
Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-12-04
TO THESE EsKIM0s WHITE
MEN ARE CURIOSITY
Tribe Discovered which Have Never
Before Viewed Men Of Othsr Raco
Than Their Own.

winnipeg. Can, Dec f--LcticrH
have been received here by members
OF the winnipeg Hlstorical society
from V. Stefanson, the Arctic explorer.
In which he tells of having lived with
a race of Esklmos which had never
seen white man. stefanson said he
had visited moro than soc uncivilixed
fskimos. nearly all % whom had
never seen white man. yet who were
more admirable in character and de-
pertinent than civilized piopie gener-
ally are.
Some time ago n letter reached New
York telling something OF these Eskl-
mos and now the explorer. who has
been gone more than two years. sup
plies additional details. The letter
was written on June "a from f.angton
Bay. IN n corner OF Franklin nay. or
tho 500 Eskimos 500 had never seen a
white man. nor had their ancestors,
About 1850 had seen white men before
only once. These had once visited a
schooner near Victoria Island In 1906.
None OF these Esklmos had guns. and
three fourths Of them had never heard
the report OF a gun.
stcfanson had Travelled 1900 miles
Ia the year preceding his letter. He
had covered goo niilca on dog sls d..
He and DR. Anderson. his companion.
existed entirely on wild meat. Only
once did they see white men. that be-
ing i've months after they reached
Coronation Gulf.
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HOME CURE FOR
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Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-12-04
FIFTH OF MILLION
CANS OF TOMATOES
Lakewood Cannery Has Iamcn~<. Out
put for season 81 1911; Turkey
Track Csttic fseing shipped.

Lakewood. ". ~. Dec. s.--Tho
Lakewood cennery put M 10000
cons OF tomatoes this year. or nearly
NTH OF a million. The institution
paid out In cash 10 tomato srowers
sf.70t: for labor, ss.7ib: masking a
total Of ss,f2t turned loose IN the
community during tho two months Il
was IN operation.
The Turkey Track people shipped
- cars. 1000 head OF cattle from the
pens hero Monday. OF THESE. 20 cars
went to Amarillo. Texas. three cars 10
f3ovinn. Texas. and ono car OF market
stun 20 RanHss City
ycsterdny's shipment ny the same
people consisted Of 30 cars i.so0 hend.
These went 10 Pampa.. Texas. These
cattle were sold 60 Lee Islvins OF Am
arIllo. who was here and supeflntend-
Cd the shipments. ,. A.. CoBurn Of
Kansas CITY. has been here several
days looking after the gathering and
shipmenta Of these cattle. There will
be other shipments before the Track
cattle ara all gone.