Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1911-09-08


enough, even at close range, 10 haY
transhxed a mans throat The assas
sins only weapon, except for quiyer
ful OF extra darts, seemed 10 be |
short blunt stick. rudely whitfield
perhaps ten inches long
Obedient apparently, TO the orde
OF the new arrival. the party change
its direction. leaving what was eyi
IDENTIFY wellknown path TO them, fol
seemingly more direct but roughel
route. And they moved now with ar
appearance of haste Presently they
scrambled over precipitcus ledge Of
Ice and. in a moment, were lost tc
Cayley's view.
The world was suddenly empty
again, as If 10 living foot had ever
trodden it; and Cayley, lowering
there. little above the level OF the
ice, rubbed his eyes and wondered
whether the singular, silent tragedy
he had just witnessed were real, OF a
trick the mysterious arctic light had
Z played upon his tired eyes. But there
remained upon that vacant scene two
material reminders Of the tragedy to
which it had afforded setting One
was smudge Of crimson on the snow
the other, & little distance off. just
this side Of the icy ridge over which
the last Of the party had gone scram-
bling a moment before, was the
strange looking blunt stick which he
had seen in The assassin's hand.
Cayley few little lower, his wings
almost skimming the ice Finally.
reaching the spot where the thing had
fallen he alighted and picked il I'D.
Whether IFS possessor had valued it,
or not. whether OF not he might be
expected to return for IT, Cayley did
not know. and did not much care.
He stood for some time turning the
thing over in his hands. pulling over
IT, trying 70 make ont how II could
have been used as the instrument Of
propulsion 70 that deadly ivory dart
There was a groove on one side Of it,
with q small ivory plug al the end.
The other end was curiously shaped,
misshapen. rather, for. though il was
obviously the end one held Cayley
could not make It fit his hand. what
ever position he held it IT,
Giving UP the problem at fast. Re
tucked the stick into his belt slipped
his arm through the strap in the
framework OF his aeroplane and pre-
pared for fight He had q little diff
Guilty getting up. owing TO the absence /
of breeze at this point Finally ne
was Obliged to climb, with a good deal I
of labor. the icy ridge up which he
had watched the little party OF muir (
derers scrambling.
At the crest he cast q glance (
around looking for them, but saw no 4
signs Of them Then. getting a favor /
able slant OF the wind he mounted 4
again into the element he now called /
his own.
Five years before Pkgip CayieY /
would have passed for a good exam
pie of that type of clean-limbed, clean
minded. ikable young man which the
best Of our civilization seems to be
Towering into. Physically. it would
have been hard 10 suggest an improve
nent in him, he approached so near
the ideal standards. He was fine
grained. supple. slender. small jointed,
from head to heel
Intellectually. he had been good
enough TO go through the academy al
Vest Point with credit. and TO grad
tate high enough il his class 70 be ,
TO service in the cavalry His
tandards OF conduct, his ideas Of hon ;
T and morality had been about she !
anne as those OF the best third Of his (
If his fellow officers in ,
be Philippines, during the year OF
NO he spent In the service, had been /
sked TO pick q flaw in him. which /
ley would have been reluctant 10 do. =
ley would have said that he seemed 4
, them 2 bit too thin-skinned and I
sther fastidiOus; that was what his =
lum and only intimate friend Perry
unter. said about him at any rate ii
Put he could afford to be fastidi- s
Is. fOr be had about all a man could q
ant one would think For three L
snerauons they had taken wealth y
r granted IN the Cayley family. and O
it'll II had come breeding security s.
social position. simplicity and ease n
making friends. both among men
Id women In short, there could be a.
doubt at al that up 10 his twenty tr
nth year Fate had been ironically 2,
nd to Philip Cayley. She had given W
m no hint. no preparation for the W
INNING blow that was TO fall upon s.
d. suddenly. out OF SO clear a sky. n
When it did fall it cut his life
ian across; so that when he thought IN
OK to that time nov il seemed TO nj
M that the Lieutenant Cayley Of the VI
lited States army had died over ne
ere in the Philippines. and that he.
e man who was nov soaring in those LII
Eat circles through the arctic sky. III
IS a chance inheritor OF his name GO
d Of his memory az
He had set out one day at the head ne