The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-04-15

for some time. but they were too eau.
uous to come out OF their caves and
descend to the ground. Finally one did
come. He was destined to play large
part In my life, and for that matter he
already played large part In the lives
Of all the members Of the horde. 1t
was he whom l shall call Red Eye I'm
the pages of this history--so called be-
cause of his inhnmed eyes. the lids be.
ing always red, and. by the peculiar
effect they produced, seeming to adver.
tise the terrible savagery of him. The
color of his soul was red.
He was monster In all ways. Phys.
ically he was a giant. He must have
weighed 10 pounds. He was the
largest one Of our kind ever saw. Nor
did | ever see one of the Fire People
so large as he. nor one of the Tree
People. Sometimes when In the news.
papers happen upon descriptions of
our modern bruisers and prizetighters
! wonder what chance the best of them
would have had against him.
| am afraid not much of chance
With one grip of his iron fingers and a
pull he could have plucked u muscle,
say biceps, by the roots. clear ou' of
their bodies. A backhandcd. loose blow
of his fist could have smashed their
skulls like eggshells. With sweep of
his wicked feet Tor hind hands, he
could have disembowled them. A
twist could have broken their necks,
and I know that with single crunch
Of his jaws he could have pierced Mt
the same moment the great vein of the
throat in front and the spinal marrow
at the back.
He could spring twenty feet horizon.
tally from sitting position. He was
abominably hairy. 1t was matter of
pride with us to be not very hairy
But he was covered with hair all over,
on the inside of the arms as well as
the outside. and even the ears them.
selves. The only places on him where
the hair did not grow were the soles
of his hands and feet and beneath his
eyes. He was frightfully ugly. his Zero.
cious grinning mouth and huge down.
hanging under lip being but in har.
mony with his terrible eyes.
This was Red Eye. And right gin.
cerly he crept out of his cave and de.
scended to the ground. Ignoring me.
he proceeded to reconnoiter. He bent
forward from the hips as he walked,
and so far forward did he bend and so
long were his arms that with every
step he touched the knuckles OF his
hands to the ground on either side of
him. He was awkward in the semi.
erect position of walking that he as.
les to the ground in order to balance
himself. But, oh, tell you he could
run on all fours. Now. this was some.
thing at which we were particularly
awkward. Furthermore it was rare
individual among us who balanced
himself with his knuckles when walk.
ing. Such an individual was an alta.
vism. and Red Eye was an even great.
er atavism.
That is what he was-an atavism.
We were In the process Of changing
our tree life to life on the ground. For
many generations we had been going
through this change, and our bodies
and carriage had likewise changed.
But Red Eye had reverted to the more
primitive tree dwelling type. Per.
force because he was born I'm our horde
he stayed with us. but In actually he
was an atavism, and his place was
elsewhere.
Very circumspect and very alert. he
moved here and there about the open
space, peering through the vistas
among the trees and trying to catch n
glimpse Of the hunting animal that all
suspected had pursued me. And while