The evening world., 1914-02-23


Ep:lk and n revolver comprised. with
10 clothes he wore. and with the
Dhimmering silken. wings of his aero
plane. his whole. equipment. His
nearest base of supplies. II you could
1aN, II, ,that, was a twenty pound tin
OF pcmmican. hidden under q stone
on the northeast extremity Of Herald
Isiand. three hundred miles away.
The United States Rescue Station at
kPoint Barrow, the extreme northerly
y point Of Alaska, the place which he
had called home for the past three
I{months, was. possibly. half as far
again away, somewhere OF to the
boutheast.
But to Cayley. In his present mood.
hese distances were matters Of small
np0rtance. Never again, perhaps,
lould the mastery of the air bring
1n q sense of happiness 30 godlike
Its serenity. 30 ecstatic in Its ex-
aration.
nut for these past weeks of un-
pken Arctic sunshine. he had fairly
Red awning. The earth had no OBJ
Fuctions and the air no perils. 10.
Y, with his great broad fan-tail
Hwp up arc-wise beneath him, his
Ines pitched slightly forward at the
bcise and perilOus angle that only
4 did not send him plunging. head.
bt, down upon the sullen masses OF
below. no lay there. prone, upon
sheep-skin sleeping bag which
dded- the framework supporting
two wings, as secure as the great
mar petrol which drew curiously
II. and then, with q wheel and q
flge, fed away, squawktng.
ayley would not say that he had
rned to fly; he would still insiss
he was learning. And, In
be, this was true. Almost every
elder, gull, cormorant or alba
taught him some new trick Of
Unique in steering. soaring or
sling, perhaps, In q tricky cross
ent OF air. Even that fulmar,
ch had fed In such ungainly
70, had given him q now Idea In
Statics to amuse himself with,
ht for all practical purposes Cay
Nad learned to fly. The great fam
on. airship, 100 feet from tip to
which had long lain Idle on his
n At Sandoval. would probably
g,leava Its house again. 1t had
,yoeman service. without it,
prful propeller for last resource
BY would never have been able to
ne experiments and get the prac-
which had given him the afr for
natural element. He had out
M It,. He had no moro need OF
hrs or, whirling fans. The force
49,. &Tavtty. the force of the breeze
the perfectly co-ordinated
Y eciee of his own body gave him
the. power he needed now.
tSrhsps the succeeding generations
humankind. may develop an eye
10A can ses ahead when the body
lytng prone, rs o bird lies In IT'D
ghto Cayiey had remedied this de-
1oncy wtthtA silver mirror. slightly
)QcAvQ., screwed fast to the cross
aco which supported his shoulders.
D1aAd of bonding back his head or
viAg to SEQ out through his eye
owS. hs simply cast . backward
Ance into this mirror whenever he
Ante6 TO look ahead. II had bsen Q
tls porpiexine at first, but he could
nalded' eyes.
Ana now, q minute or two. psr-
baps. nsftsf that fulmar had gone
Plnto his mirror and hts Olympian
ke1jm was shaken with the shock OF
DuSprtee. For what he saw, clearly
gaNA~tAA IN his ,ittl~ v~dnctne glass.
Pas land. There was . mountain.
n =; long dark line that must b .
81 And it Was land that never had
o1n marked on any chart. In abso-
ssa degrees OF latitude he was not,
rom tho Arctic explorers Wow, very
b north. f -.
But tha great ics cap which covers
~, ton Of the world u irregular u
h0ps aaA 3ust hsFs uerthvasd fs0