Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-07-21

think / can kill him. Now l
@lrl it over, it seems TO me likely
= doesn't suspect we are alive at
\ The Walrus people never dis
s,sred the ice chimney ror the pilot
sc That's perfectly clear. If they
~ they would have rifed it long
sN
.Uheu finish, I'll come back to
rn don't think | shall be gone
,srg long. You aren't to be afraid for
no and you can trust me to be care
MI know | have your life In my
,.rds as well as my own. Your part
!, harder than mine: | quite under
,tsrd that. You must be keeping
catch every second. If he eludes me
and comes here, you must shoot him,
vi-hout word or warning. Shoot to
kill"
sPut shan't have the revolver"
There was an electric moment Of
silence between them, while she gazed
into his face, Mortified at the meaning
she read there.
You didn't mean that, Philip.
pbilip-you can't mean that. And
leave you to face that monster I'M
armed
4 shall have the only weapon that
will be Of any service to me, my knife.
It's got to be done at close quarters.
couldn't possibly shoot him from the
air But If l can alight near him and
come up within striking distance he
| will have no chance with me, not with
| all his strength
No" she said, resolutely, 81 won't
let you go, Not that way"
Listen Jeanne. If ! can find him,
+ | can kill him Do you know what the
movements of ordinary men, even I'M
usually quick men, look like to me?
| Like the motions Of marionettes. The
only chance Roscoe has against me is
/ of picking me off at long range with
his rife. He could do that whether
had revolver or not. And If he did,
If he killed me and had the revolver,
then-well, then he would come here
and find you-defenseless. Don't you
see? couldn't take the revolver. I
should be unnerved with terror from
the moment left you"
With a sob she clasped her arms
about his neck and held him tight.
Then, In tragic submission, they
dropped away.
Without saying anything more, Cay
ley blew out the candle, opened the
door into the tunnel and took up his
furled wings. With trembling hands
she helped him spread them and draw
them taut.
As he adjusted the straps across his
shoulders, he felt her hands again,
upon his head, felt them clasp behind
his neck.
"Goodby,' she said.
He was trembling all over, as her
hands were. but it was not with fear.
Il shall come back SAFE" he said.
Nothing can harm me tonight"
He pulled her up close in his en-
folding arms and kissed her mouth.
In an instant he turned and dived OFF
me clif-head into the night
He headed up into the wind, and
hung for moment soaring upon a
iarly steady current of air that
poured along parallel to the cliff.
When he reached the glacier he
checked his speed little and
sianted down to an altitude of not
more than two or three hundred feet
above the crest. He hardly expected
glimpse of Roscoe so soon, having
no reason to think he would be here,
out ne began scanning the earth's sur
lace closely with the idea of accustom-
lng MS eyes to the light and the dis
'4nce Yet it was not his eyes. but
ais sensitive nostrils which gave him
us nrst hint of the probable where
spout OF the man he was looking for.
Inc frozen air which he had been
USWlng deep into his lungs was odor-
'eSs' save for the family acrid sugges-
Non OF ozone about ia thing, by the
hS was puAZlSu 10 account
w. unless 1t presaged some titanic
''sctfical display in the sky.
nut the odor which now invaded his
'Ssuulous nostrils automatically
Vnecked his fight. He tilted back his
NaneS and his momentum sent him
s"'Nering almost vertically aloft. He
W. not analyze it-not that first in
''@nl but his sensation was the same
Oue That makes a dog suddenly throw
- us mead and snarl, bristling.
1t moment he knew that It was
sIoSe' the smoke of no clean, spar
lug wood fire, but of smouldering
'Oues and the flesh of some animal.
slowly he began to descend in the
s.sep'ng circles of a great spiral, con
AN 'on,'y searching with an eagerness,
.u''h amounted almost to an agony,
t9 st 'ne point Of angry red which would
ta r." MN where his enemy was to be
b,d He had no doubt at all that
Is, enemy was there. The man who
s@ Ialo that fire was likely to be
'eeping beside it.
~ 'e vas within 20 feet of the level
~. Ue Ice before his little mirror of
'UldFe silver caugbt Tho o1aap, of