Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-14

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sense alarm. Ana thea 10 losnA otaa'
self In darkness.
He understood at once that hs had
been tficked. Without wasting tho time
to turn back and look at Jeanne. he
sprang toward the pilot house door.
He thought she meant to attempt to
rush b. him. gain the snow-tunnel and
throw horself over the crest Of the
clin. He had not misread the sud
den loathing he had seen in her eyes
when they met his face.
In the open doorway he wheeled
round, triumphantly. She had not
got ahead of him that time He laugh.
ed aloud into the darkness. and then
spoke to her, with . vile. jocular IA.
miliarity.
But he got no answer. in words or
otherwise There was no outcry. no
| stifed sobbing. Nothing 1t all but
sigh and whine Of the wind.
He moved forward. cropping in the
dark, but stopped when he felt the
pressure of the table across his thighs
He could do nothing without light
He would re-hght the candle, first OF
all, and then he would find ner.
He took bit of flint. nall and =
rspe of tow from his pocket. He
struck a spark, but 1t failed to kindle
the tow. l
It was at that instant that Philip
alighted.
Philip sprang clear of his planes,
left them as they were there at the
tunnel mouth. and walked steadily up
toward the pilot house door.
Roscoe, on hearing his voice the
hrst time. had dropped the arti-
Giles which encountered bis hands and
sropsd on tho table for the revolver.
Before he could put hts hand on 1t
Cayley spoke the second time.
At that, wanting no weapon, conf
dent that he needed none. his great
arms aching for the feel OF the sky
mans flesh beneath their grasp, he
moved q step nearer the door and
waited.
He saw Philip cross the threshold.
unseeing - suspecting. apparently.
nothing; saw him, at last. within hands
reach.
Just as he touched him he uttered
a sobbing oath, and his great hand fall
tered, for Philips knife had struck
through. clean to the hilt and just
below the heart.
| The effect Of the shock was only
momentary. With yell OF rage. he
sprang upon Cayley, crowded him
back against the wall. tore at him
;blindly, like Wild beast. and finally
getting Philips right forearm fairly
In the grip Of both hams, he snapped
Ht like . pipestem.
N a moment Cayley got round De-
hind him and with the crook OF bis
good arm round Roscoe's neck. he sue
ceeded in forcing him to release his
/ grip and IN throwing him heavily.
AZ he lay. his body projected
through the doorway. out into the
tunnel.
Philip left him huddled there. and
went back to the table. He found
Roscoe's flint and steel beneath his
hand; but 1t was full minute before
he could summon his courage to strike
Q light for the differences from RIOS
/, GOES presence here in the pilot house
began to crowd upon him now. grim
! and horrible. But he struck q spark
at last, lighted . candle and looked
| around. :,
The reaction Of relief turned him.
for . moment, giddy. as the glance
about the room convinced him that
! what he feared worst had not happen
ed. But another thought occurred to
him, almost at once, whom he saw
the cover had been removed from the
/ top Of tho ice chimney.
In his mind. Of course. that repre-
sented the way Roscoe had come.
! What, If Jeanne, unable for some rear
{ son to defend herself. had chosen. a.
the lesser evil, to ing herself over the
elf from tho tunnel mouth?
The moment he thought Of that be
! went out into the tunnel. stepping over