The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1911-05-11

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CHAPTER lv-csWtiaved
Ne was aldrsssing the elder man
- sAs spoke. aAA - she nsnuoned
he aams-it vas the FIRST time she
Aa1 nsatioasA It to any one-shs
cav him shoot Q startled. inauirfnS
giaass at Ais soa. VellowiAg It, she
met Tom FaashaW's eyes staring a&
Asf IN utter amassmsnt
"Cayisy." he said. half under his
BREATH: Philip Caylsy-"
That was the name" she an
sversd-
And yst "a b willing 70 swear. "
As said. I've never msntioned that
name to you In my life
No." she said. Why should you
know you didn't. knew had never
heard It before when he told me 1t
vas his" She hesitated . moment:
then: Did you ever know a man
named Philip Caylsy. Tomf"
He let the question 90 by. unheeded.
and. for . long time. EaEsd silently
out over the land. II suppose" he
0aid at last. that = coincidence like
this. any coincidence. II only 1t be
strange enough. will bring . touch Of
lupsesitous fear to anybody. l never
u even . touch Of 1t before, in all
NJ life: and always had Q little feel.
Ing of contempt for the men who
showed It. But now-well. we'll, l
wish poor old Hunter hadn't straysd
away last night. wasn't alarmed
about him before. and I've NO rational
ground for alarm about him now.
Only"
He did not 60 on until she prompted
him with = question. And has the
sky-maa. Philip Cayley. anything to
DO with the coincidence?"
sun It was little while before he
spoke. II suppose I'd better tell you
he stoey-a part Of 1t, at least;
couldn't tell It all to you" He turned
% his father. You, l think. already
Anow IT," Then with evident reluc-
eanos. he began telling the story to
Jeanne.
There was . man named Philip
Caylsy." he said, "in Hunters class at
The Point. three classes ahead Of me.
that was. He and Hunter were chums,
the David and Jonathan you know.
sf tAsir class. l remember what .
stroke Of luck for them everybody
thought It was whom they were a.
GiSnsd 70 service in the same regi-
0snt 1t seems to me, ~ think back
20 our days ut the Point-of course.
my memory may be playing me =
krick-but II seems to me that even
then. Cayley was interested in the
navigation Of the air. Somebody kept
. serap-book of all that the newspa-
Hefs and magazines reported on the
lb5ect, any way; I remember seeing
It. think It was Caylsy.
II lost sight of him and Hunter
When they went to the Philippines. It
4 only Justice to Hunter to say that
I never heard . word Of the thing that
happened out there from him. He
never seemed to want to talk to me
about It, and. Of course, I never forced
him. Well. can make . short story
Il It, any way. though 1t has to be .
nasty one.
"A man came into the post one day,
ne head man Of one Of the neixhbor-
ing villages out there. a 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 90 into
the details Of that-and flogged nearly
10 death. He said that Cayley had
done It. He had demonstrated with
Cayley, he said. because he feared
for his daughters safety-shs was .
pretty girl, whittier than her father
and 1t seems that the mans fears had
some justification. 1t appears that
Cayley had come out there, blind
drunk, with . 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.
'Cayley was away on scout duty at
the time when the man came in-the
thing had happened some days prior.
Just before he started out 1t came
Nks . thunderbolt out of q clear sky.
for everybody liked Cayley and
thought him IN exceptionally decent,
ban sort Of chap. though he and
Hunter both were drinking . good deal
1t then. Poor Hunter was all
broken up about It. Everybody be-
&svsd that hs really knew some In