The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-02-26

He pulled himself up sharply there
and looked at his watch. TT will bs
daylight In two hours now" he said.
when It comes we'll signal TO the
yacht. and they'll send for you and
take you away-you and this pre-
cious nnd you've made. In the mean
time. you must 60 to sleep. You
hardly slept At all while was read
ing"
lie seated himself once more at her
feet. switched on the fading light from
the bull's-eye and drew the sleeves
Of her coat across his shoulders.
Good night" he said.
She answered drowsily.
He had meant to indulge in the
luxury OF a doze himself. for he had
not slept since the first light of the
day before. and then for only two or
three hours. But the train Of thought
which her last words had set going
IN his mind were quite enough to
Danish sleep.
When he had taken wing from the
ice-fioe that morning It had been with
the perfectly definite intention of
making the long straight flight of
ive hundred miles to Point Barrow.
He meant to go. He would have
gone-at any rate have started. had
not a small thing checked him-the
most vagrant OF natures caprices-a
shift in the direction Of the wind.
In order to steer the course he
wanted. he must hy higher. and in
gaining that necessary altitude. up a
long. easy gradient. he cut q great
circle inland. Circllng thus he found
himself. presently. looking straight
down upon the shore party from the
yacht.
He went on watching them With a
quickly enlivened curiosity. when he
saw that the man who acted a. guide
to the SCORE Of people from the yacht
was clad In skins. as tho party Of
men had been who had murdered
Hunter.
He had sighted the cup-sha ped
valley which Roscoe called Fog Lake
when tho little party, who were max
Ing their unconscious way toward II,
were still a mile or two away. He
himself was slow to perceive that II
was their destination. He did not
fully realize II, In TACT, until he saw
them disappear at the edge OF II.
When 1t became evident at last
that they were not coming out that
way, he wheeled about and set out
was flying across tho glacier on his
way seaward. when he encountered
the relief expedition, headed by old
Mr.. Fanshaw and Scales, the frst
officer. The reflection that in order
TO send out 80 numerous Q party,
they must have left the yacht al
most deserted. gave him his nlvt in
tuitive perception Of Roscoe's de-
sign.
his eyes on the relaxed. sleeping body
Of the girl who lay here, safe, asleep
within reach Of bis hand. he trem-
blsd 70 think how evenly balanced
that decision Of his had been, that
had resulted in his flashing down on
the ice beside them and taking a
hand In their AFFAIR. He had accom-
plished nothing with the rescuing
party. His urgent request that they
the first party and bring It back, his
solemn warning Of tho danger. ali fell
alike on incredulous. suspicious ears.
Cayley watched them a. they
trudged away. Then. with q sudden
determination. again took wing and
new. as fast as long slant down tho
wind would carry him. back to Fog
lhhe' AcToss It's gray, ana now 0Ark-
enins. surface ne skinned, this way
and that. finally catching the thing
no hoped ;or-the sound OF human
voices coming zip through the fog.
He was under no delusion M to thu
danger OF the thing he contemplated.
A dive into water of uncertain depth
and bottom was safe In comparison,
because water would check tho down.
ward rush Of tho entering body; lis
buoyancy would offer n means OF re-
turning to the air again. Tie fOy
had had no moro supporting power
than the air itself. IT was a masx
across the face of danger, and that
was all. But there were men down
there, men he had set out to save; 50.
with q long, steadying breath or two
to allowed himself to 60 drifting
down.
Before csy!sy coui. make out the
figures Of tho men teiow him, he
heard I. sudden cry OF terror, and
checked his descent. The voice had
cried ou. in foreign tongue. sound
ing like Spanish. enough like Spanish,
at least. for him to understand.
Tho Angel Of DEATH" It cried. II
will confess--confess everything"
And then ~ swiftly. In that came
sibilant. explosive tongue. the confos-
sion poured forth--a confession now
- amply Justifsd b. What had hap.
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