Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-03-15
tcoounucd from yesterdays paper
CHAPTER xxu.


aE De ulu To Ala CDUNtr5ailou WIN
Jeanne, upon tho slbleS, that Roscoe
and the other people Of the Walrus
had never noticed tho leo chimney. nor
suspected the existence Of the pilot
house upon ,h6 Ci1 head Also, he
had followed correctly the 1Tck o.!
Roscoe's mind 10 the deduction that
the two latest getaways upon this
land-'hst is Philip and jeanne
must have perished IN the great storm
which began on the nisat when ho
fired the hut and continued for 80
many weeks that ho, like them, lost
all trace Of reckoning
During the storm he had lived In
the cave, much as Philip and Jeanne
had lived In the pilot house ON the
elf he had, tha. is 10 say In somo
purely automatic fashion, kept on eE-
listing The mere momentum OF O. ma.
ture mans vitality makes 70 hard for
him TO die But whom the storm
Rbated and mlldor weather came, he
bestirrcd himself, a. Cayley did. and
cot about digging a tunnel OF his own
through the great drift which had
blocked the entrance to his cave.
The next time the moon came up,
after he had completed the tunnel
from the cave he set out down the
beach toward the ruins OF the hut.
II was not mere curiosity which
attracted him. nor any lurking fear,
but simply the hope Of making some
salvage from the Wreckago of tho hut.
or possibly, from the bodies OF his two
victims, In oaso he WAS lucky enough
10 nud them He had no doubt at all
that they were dead
His pleasure over tbs quantity and
condition OF the stores he found IN
The ice cave compensated for his
disappointment over not finding the
bodies Of his two latest victims.
Evidently they had not even At.
temptod to use such shelter aB tho lcs
chamber afforded. for It showed no
mark OF human hahliatlon at all They
bad probably wandered outside and
eied in one Of the nearby drifts. Per.
naps he would nnd them some day,
For the present. however, tho stores
occupied his whole attention.
Very methodicslly he set to work,
carrying them of to his own cave
working without fatigue and without
Notwithstanding no long rs the
moonlight lasted
He was Just setting out with his last
load when, glancing skyward to see
how long tho light would hold, he
caught a glimpse Of Cayley on the
wing. The sight oocAsloned him nc
return-not even momontary--of the
old terror, He cursed little because
no had not his rife with him; the sky,
man soaring slowly and not very high
presented y mark he could almost cor
tainy have hit
II was surprising, OF course, to see
him alive, but Roscoe, In his present
state, never thought OF looking to su
pernatural means to account for the
fact Indeed he was hardly more than
q moment In approImating the true OK
PLANTATION. There might well be- he
supposed, up somewhere In the face
OF the olitf cave or shelter, OF whit b
iae knew nothing. and easily Rcoes
siblo to anyone who happened to pos
Bsss a nylng machine.
Skrting the cliir and keeping vel
in its shadow, he made hi, way with
his last load, back to his cave Here
he spent few minutes cleaning his
rife, making sure that the mechanism
loi the breech was working perfectly
and allinE It's magazine full OF car
trldges.
Tho moon was Just setting, but the
sky was sull bright enough to give
him a good hope OF making out Cay
ley's winged figure against IT,
Roscoe sQuatted down in the lee o,
the great hummock OF leo. surveyed
the heavens with keen. practsed eyes
munching on strip OF dried warus
meat which he had brought with him
and waited very oontentedly.
He had not long to walt Long be,
fore the moon twilight had gone out
OF tho sky he saw In II slhouettsd
against II, the sight from which
he had once ned with such mad
terror-the broad expanse OF the sky.
mans wings
Instead Of nring no scrambled mp to
the top OF the nearest ice hummock
and from there watched Cayley flight
70 his landing place
He laughed aloud when ne saw that
Il was not In the side Of tho clitf, as he
had feared, but quite at the crest Of It
where II WAS an accessible TO a man
who could climb bit as to one with
wings
He did not move from his attitude
OF strained attention, on the summit
OF little ice hill, until be saw q fain,
glow OF golden light dirluslng Itself
from the mouth OF tho tunnel that led
70 the pilot house Then with that
queer stunning gait Of his, which was
neither walk nor run, he began max
tng his way inShore, over the loe to
ward the foot OF the oliif.
Cayleys tunnel was not at right