Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-04-21
CHAPTER IV.-Continued.

She was addressing the elder man
as she spoke, and as she mentioned
the name-it was the first time she
had mentioned it to any one-she
saw him shoot a startled, inquiring
glance at his son. Following it, she
met Tom FaDshaw's eyes staring at
her in utter amazement.
"Cayley," he said, half Under his
breath; Philip Cayicy-"
That was the name" she an
swered-
And yet. I'd be willing to swear"
he said, I've never mentioned that
name to you in my life"
No" she said WIZ should you?
know you didn't. knew l had never
heard it before when he told me it
was his" She hesitated a moment;
then: Did you ever know a man
named Philip Cayley, Tom?"
He let the question go by, unheeded,
and, for a long time, gaZed silently
out over the land. Il suppose" he
said at last, that a coincidence like
this, any coincidence, if only it be
strange enough, will bring a touch of
supersitOus fear to anybody. | never
had even a touch of it before, in all
my life; and | always had little feel
inc Of contempt for the men who
showed it. But nOW-wcl, we'll, |
wish poor old Hunter hadn't strayed
away last night. l wasn't alarmed
about him before, and I've no rational
IL, l.;
Only"
lie old not go on until she prompted
him with question. And has tho
sky-man, Philip Cayley. anything to
do with the coincidence"
Still it was a little while before he
spoke. Il suppose Id better tell you
the stOry-a part of it, at least; |
couldn't tell it all to you" He turned
to his father. You. | think, already
know it," Then with evident reluc-
tance, he began telling the story to
Jeanne.
There was a man named Philip
Cavlcy.' he said. lin Hunters class at
the Point. three classes ahead of me,
that was He and Hunter were chums,
the David and Jonathan you know,
Of their class | remember what a
stroke of luck for them everybody
thought it was when they were as
signed 10 service in the same regi-
ment. 1t seems to ne, as | think back
to our days at the POint--of course,
my memory may be playing me
trick-but it seems to me that even
then Cayley was interested in the
navigation of the air. Somebody kept
a sclap-book of all that the newspa-
Dsrs and magazines reported on the
subject. any way; | remember seeing
it. ! think it was Cayley.
Il lost sight of him and Hunter
when they went to the Philippines. 1t
is only Justice TO Hunter TO say that
7 mover heard a word of the thing that
barpened out there from him. He
never seemed to want to talk to me
about it. and, of course, | never forced
him Well. | can make a short story
of i any way. though 1t has to be a
nasty one.
a man came into the post one day,
the head man of one OF the nelghbor-
inc villages out there, man with
white blood in him-Spanish blood.
,rhev carried him in, for he couldn't
walk He was in horrible condition.
He had been tortured-I won't so into
the details of that-and tlOgged nearly
RI death. He said that Cayley had
done II. He had demonstrated with
Csvlev. he said, because he feared
for his daughters safety she was
nrettv girl, whittier tha'. her father
and II seems that tlhe mans fears had
some justification 1t appears that
CevIev had COKE out there, blind
DRINK with couple of troopers, who
deserted tha.< same night. and man
bandIed tie Old man. The girl Joined in
her fa.aer's accusation, at least she
d;dn'S deny anything.
"r,vley was away on scout dutV e
an. time when the man came in-the
Snina had happened some days prior
met before he started out 1t came
I,ka a thunderbolt out of clear sky,
for everybody liked Cayley and
+,,o,,gbt him an exceptionally decent
cIean sort of chap, though ne ana
II,,nter both we're drinking a good deal
t,,st then. Poor Hunter was ali
broken up about it. Everybody pc
1,aved that he really knew some In