The evening world., 1914-02-27

thought. a. he sometimes did, thAt
the cause Of all his terror. the thing
which kept him pennsd up here IN ne
cave ana denied him acosss TO more
than furtivs edges Of the bSacn.
might bs just . rather dsfsnselsss
human couple. q man and . Won IN.
no would go of into transports Of
rage which left even his gigantic
body limp and exhausted.
What, prevented this suspicion from
becoming q certainty was the sight
he saw. day after day, OF the huge
golden winged thing, keeping It's ma
jestte guard In stately circles over
that bit OF beach he dared not ven.
tire upon.
The thing that kept him sans was
passion for gold which had led him
10 murder Capt. Fielding. Every day
he tramped up the glacier TO the gold
ledge and there, while the light last
Cd, he worked cutting the precious
metal out OF the rock and with In
finite labor beating ittpure.
Az tho weeks and months dragged
along. this UNMARRIED routine moro
than compensated for the solitude
and the tcrrors his superstition
thrust upon him. and gradually re-
stored him to his old normal. formid-
able. brutal self. On the day when
he made the discovery that was TO
days which, Jeanne and Philip had
been enjoying. he was returning
from tho lodge along the crown OF
the glacier whom he found that his
accustomed path was interrupted ny
q now fissurs Ia tho ice too broad to
leap across. 10 he was forced ia
descend by tho rougher agd more
dimcult track which lay along the
moraine.
Before he had gone three PAGES
along this track his eye made out
something. just off his path and Q
little below II, which led him to give
a wild blasphemous yell Of Joy.
Tho great insure which had
opened In the, Ice had done, In an In
slant. what the party from the Au-
rora had failed 10 do after hours Of
hard labor-it had yielded up the
body Of Perry Hunter. which. during
all these months. II had kept i'm.
prisoned.
The sight Of It was no new thing
to Roscoe. Ito had seen II . scoRo
OF times, buried deep down In that
eternal ice. But that the icosAh0u1A
discharge II thus. gratuitously. into
hin very path. sssassA lis@ o-Dtoes
of insultlng meckery on tn pAxt Of
the g rious devil which ne Wr:
shippod for q soo.- For. strap ~
across tho dead man'q shouldosn
was a 1tffe and aro'' ID Ms middle y
belt fuif o. cartridUS
II waS not nve minu.ea later whom
Roscoe. Eins and Smmhnkion belt In
his han(ss, mas htssyina ON toward
just wh6re his 'desecratint hands had
loft Il.
had soon at a glance. Though. OF
course. all tho mechanism Of It's
brooch was frozen fast. Hut halt
hours hard work sufliced TO put II
into commission again.
Then, with the rife over his
shoulder, he swaggered lout Of tho
cave. With his first glSnce abroad
he started. Ills devil wa6 being kind
to him to-day. For. shartblinE .AlsAO
the Ice. through the thidkenint twi-
light. pot q hundred paced awat. was
n big Hear. Roscoe was bred d wal
rus moat. The thought OF Z bear
steak fade his mouth wQtor.
Three years disuse. however. had
made. hIs Workmanship somewhat
uncertain, He fired too soon, and
though he did not miss the only Of
feet his shot had WAS u make tho
bear turn about and I'd stumbling
down the glacier toward tho beach,
with ungainly haste. Roscoe hurried
altar. him and fred two mora ahots.
Whether they hit or not they did not
ServQ to check the bear. lint. The
next moment he had ndod the
corner OF the cliff anu iisa tpeaIOd
down tho beach In the direction Of the
hut.
Roscoe hesitated. but Only for q
moment; then, with an oath, nc Get
out In pursuit: II was not 10 much
the protection which the rtne afforded
him that wan responsible for this new
courage a. II was that tho mere feel
Of II In his hands brought him back
In touch once more with tho every
his visions and ghosts seem . little
unreal.
II was fully dark down here In the
twilight was still In the sky. and
half HIS glsnces were directed thither.
looking for something which he told
himself could not possibly cxist. ex-
cept In his own fancy. yet fully ex-
pected to zee nevertheless. the shadow
OF Cayiey's great wings. And at last
lie saw II impending In the lower air.
like a brooding spirit. just above the
tiny square OF Hight which marked
tho location Of the hut.
Roscoe abandoned his pursuit OF
the bear: ali thought OF II. In fact,
was gone from hts mind. lie faltered
and his knees trembled beneath him.
and yet, slowly and with many pauses
lie made his way forward.
He was horribly afraid all the time.
but curiosity was all the while over
pOwering fear. He was not more than
two hundred yards away whom Cay
ley alighted beside the giri.
At what he saw then Roscoe
dropped his rifle on the beach with
whispered oath and rubbed his
eyes. Tho light which diffused itself
from tho open window OF tho hut
was not much but II was enough to
reveal tho fact that this golden
winged spirit which had kept him
In terror all those months was taking
OF his wings and WINS folding them
up into u bundle. In az matter OF fact
"A way az II he were furling an UNI
brella. lie stood there now, Just an