The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-27
CHAPTER xvIII.
An Attaok.


 No terror attributable to human causes would have held back that solitary and altogether desperate out. cast
 The thing in the situation which caused Cayley the most uneasiness was the fear that some time or other Roscoe would solve the mystery, would see him in the very act of taking to the air. This fear suggested an expedient to him one day as he was flying along near the snow-crest- ed edge of the cliff
 T don't know why I never thought of 1t before" ke said to Jeanne as he alighted beside her a moment or two afterward; but I've got 1t now--the way to prevent Roscoe from every solving the mystery of your guardian angel. I thought of 1t when saw the mound up on the clin-head that is formed by the observatory It can't be buried so very deep fin the snow because the mound isn't so very big. I'm going up there now to dig it out. enough. at least, so that l can take wing from there"
 "Yoa never can dig out enough snow to get running start up there" she objected.
 T sha'n't have to. I'll just dive of the cliff
 Philip. you sha'n'tl" Why not?"
 You know what you told me your self. That none of the big birds can take to the afr without a running start; and about taking pelicans and birds like that up into high buildings and throwing them out of windows, and how they were always killed"
 That's because they've only got instinct instead of intelligence. None of their family had ever been thrown out of windows before. and they didn't know what to do But I can get my start quite as safely that way as any other Oh yes. I've done 1t. Do you imagine. Jeanne dear. that I'd take an unnecessary risk so long as my life is the only possible protection there Is for yours?"
 He spent the rest of the day tun- nelling out from the observatory. He did not dig in the snow; he simply packed 1t. gradually enlarging the space from a section the size of the pilot house door to space at the cliffs edge wide enough for the full spread of his wings Jeanne was watching on the beach when he made his first flight from this aerie. and. in spite of her con fidence in his powers, she endured a horrible moment or two. For he came hurtling down, head first. at an angle of SO degrees; and he had traveIsed two-thirds of the distance to the beach before his line defiected outward and began curving up toward the hori- yontal
 When she saw that he was safe, that he had really done the thing he had said he could. she dropped down upon bear-skin, which was spread before the hut. and shut her eyes, for what she had seen had turned her q bit giddy.
 That feeling passed in a moment She opened her eyes and lay. stretch ed at full length. upon the bear-skin. watching him as he wheeled and dipped. then lowered aloft again in that fading violet sky, supremely masterful. majesticslly dominant of the unstable element he had con qusrxf.
 | She sat up suddenly, erect, upon the bear skin, with the realization that It was nearly dark. Their hours of daylight were getting very scanty BOW. Today's allowance was gone, all though it was not yet three in the aft ernoon.
 She looked aioft for Cayley, but could not see him. Then, the next moment, she heard the whine of the afr through his rigging. and he sailed down on a long slant and alighted bc- side her.
 | He got clear of his planes with an IunaecountabIe air of haste, and held out both hands to help her rise.
 What do we do with sentinels who go to sleep on duty?" he questioned with laugh
 q wasn't asleep" she said contrite- ly. "but it was just about as bad. was thinking" She paused there. then added. about you. Whats the sentence of ths court?'
 Already he had his wings folded ID and was handing them to her.
 Tho sentence is that you shall be frightened with bear story. There's 8 big one coming down the beach aft CT you this very moment, and you're to surrender the revolver to me and stay under arrest in the hut until aft CT 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 Bne could already make out the snauI- 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 vestibuIe and Cayley on the door-ssep.
 He's been wounded. When l was overhead could make out the blood stains on his side, and he was leaving | track on the ice