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Philip Cayley. nccuned of a crime of
Which ho In not guilty, resigns from tho
army In disgrace and Ills affection for
hl friend, Lieut. Perry Hunter, turns to
ti&Uvu. C&jfcy stins soHtud;. rrhr lie
perfects a flying Machine VilIe soaring
over tho Arctic reKlonx, hof picks up n
curiously shnped stick ho hnd pcn In the
assassin's hand. Mounting again, ho dis
covers a yacht anchored In the bay. De
scending near tho steamer, lie meets a
rtrl on an Ice floe. Ho learns that the
Klrl's name Is Jeanne Kleldlns nnd that
tho yacht has come north to seek signs
of her father. Captain Fielding, an aretlc
explorer. A party from tho yacht Is ma
king searoh ashore. After Cayley dpKs
Jnannn finds that ho had dropped a curiously-shaped
stick. Captain l'lanck and
Itho surviving crewf his wrecked whaler
wre In hiding on tho roast. A giant ntf
man named Itoscoe, had murdered Fielding
nd his two companions, after tho ex
plorer had revealed fho locution of an
enormous ledge of puregold. Iloscoa then
took command of themrtv. It develops
that the ruffian had Committed tho mur
der witnessed by Cayloy. Hoscoo plans
to capture tho yacht and escape with n
Wg load of gohf Jnanno tells Fanshaw.
owner of tho yacht, about the visit of the
ky-mati and Hhows him ths stick left bj
Cayley. Fanshaw declares that It Is an
Eskimo throwlng-stlck, used to shoo'
darts. Tom Fanshaw returns from thi
searching party with a sprained ankle
Perry Hunter Is found murdered an
Cayloy Is accused of tho crime but Jcann
believes him Innocent, A relief party got
to find tho searclieri. Tom professes h'
love for Jeanno. Bho rows nshoro an
enters an abandoned hut, and there fine
her father's diary, which discloses tho ox
Floret's suspicion of Itoscoo. Tho ru
flan returns to tho hut and sees Jeanni
Ho Is Intent on murder, when tho sky
man swoops down and tho ruffian Hew
Jeanno gives Cayloy her father's diary
to read. Tho yacht disappears nnd Hon
roe's plans to capture It aro revealed.
Joanno's only hopo Is In Cayley. Tho
seriousness of tholr situation becomes ap-
Jiarent to Jeanne and tho sky-man. Cay
ay kills a polar hear. Next ho finds a
clue to tho hiding placo of tho storm.
IloScoe Is about to ttUtu.it tlta girl when
ho Is sent fleeing In terror by tho sight
of tho sky-man swooping down. Measures
are taken to fortify tho hut.
CHAPTER XVIII. Continued.
"Tho sentence is that you shall bo
frlghtoncd with a boar story. Thoro's
a big ono coming down tho beach aft
er you this very moment, and you'ro
to surrender tho revolver to me and
stay under arrest in tho hut until aft
er I havo killed hlra"
Sho did not need to bo told thnt ho
was In earnest, In splto of tho smllo
that went with his words. Sho turned
about quickly and looked up tho
beach, sighting along Cayley's arm as
Tie pointed. Evon In tho deep twilight
-she could already mako out tho sham
bling figure that was coming nlong to
ward them on all fours.
"Why does ho move In that queer
Bort of way?" sho whlsporod.
They bad Bhrunk back Into tho
shadow of tho hut, tho girl actually
Inside of tho vestlbulo and Cayley on
the door-step,
"He's boon wounded. When I wns
overhead I could mako out tho blood
stains on his side, and ho was leaving
a track on tho lco.
"Wounded In a fight wrth another
boar?"
"No, that's not likely."
She asked no further explanation,
but sllppod Into tho hut. Tho next
moment sho was back with tho field
glasses.
"While you'ro attending to tho
bear," Bho said In a whisper, "I'll just
keep watch up tho beach for for tiny
one else."
Tho past weeks had mado ono dif
ference In hor attitude toward Cayloy
which sho was now awaro of, as she
contrasted hor sensations on seeing
Philip stop forwnrd, nut of tho shelter
of the hut, to confront tho boar, with
thoso sho had experienced when ho
had sot out on a similar errand onco
beforo. Sho knew hlra now, and sho
had no fear for him. Tho feeling
that thrilled hor now wns nearer nkln
to pride than anything elso.
Cayloy fully Justified hor confldonco.
The course tho bear was taking would
have brought him within 20 yards of
their door-Htep, When ho first caught
sight of Cayley ho "Mopped, In two
minds, apparently, whother to bo
hunted or to do tho 'hunting himself.
Then, as Cayloy advanced upon him
rather slowly, ho decided, hissed nt
him venomously and renrod up.
Ho was already budly enough
wounded to have taken nil llio fight
out Of any other sort of animal, but
half allvo as ho was, ho cost Cayley
four cartridges. Three of those shot
Cayloy was reasonably sure must have
entered a vital spot. Tho first ono
took tho bear between tho eyes as ho
was rising. Tho second was fired Into
his open mouth. Tho third was prob
ably deflected by tho mnsslvo foro
paw which ho waj holding across his
body, In the attltudo of n boxer. Tho
fourth shot, however, penetrated his
throat and probably nmashod ono of
the two first vortobrno, for it Boomed
to bring tho monster down nil In n
heap, where ho finally lay still. Cay
ley could havo reached him with his
foot.
"Good shooting," said tho girl quiet.
ly from tho little vestibule.
He reloaded tho rovolvor, lotting
tho empty shells drop unheeded on
the Ice ut his feet. IIu gavo tho weap
on back to the girl, and bent aver tho
bear.
"I'm less Interested In what I did
to .him," ho said, "than in what ho got
from tho enemy who first attacked
Ihlm."
' Tho light was almost gono, so that
tall ho could seo wore two or three
I Irregular dark staltiB upon tho white
'fur. A wound in tho flank, which
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Story of His Visit to n Sick Officer
Who Wanted to Hear Monarch's
Voice Once More.
Lord Burnharo, speaklnj at a meet
ing to consider tho question of a me
Bioriul to King Edward in Windsor,
told the following story:
Not long beforo the King's death
- there, lay In King Edward's hospital
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nono of Cnylcy'B shots could havo ac
counted for, bo explored with prac
tised hand.
Watching him an, he did so, Ihu
girl could sco that ho had found some
thing unexpected, something which
surprised him greatly. And tbcro
was moro than surprise. Thcro was
nlarmcd urgency In his voice when ho
spoko to her. Ho offered no explana
tion. Merely told hor to go Into tho
hut nnd mako fast tho solid wooden
shutters over tho windows. Ho .would
come In nnd would toll her what It
was all about, In a moment.
Tho girl had hnrdly finished the
task ho had given her, when ho enmo
In. In his blood-stained hand ho was
holding out something for her Inspec
tion. Conquering n feeling f rcpngnnnro,
sho bent over the hand, cast one
glance at tho thing It contained nnd
then started up and gnzed, wide-eyed,
Into his faco.
"A bulletl" sho said. "But but wo
thought that Itoscoo wasn't nrmed
not with flro arras, I mean."
Cayloy nodded. "But this seems to
lie pretty good evidence that ho is. j
Ho Fired
That's why 1 sent you Into tho hut.
It occurred to mo that he might bo
following tho bear, and that the light
ed windowri might glvo him a chance
for a Hhot nt ono of us. No matter
what superstitious fears ho has, ho
could hardly bo too much nfruld lu 11 u
at us from a Bafo dlBtauco, if wo hap
pened to offer a fair mark."
"Hut wo must havo offered him that
n hundred times in tho last weeks,
that Is, if his rlilo hud anything Uko
a modern range."
"That bullet Is certainly n modem
piece of ordnnnce," said Cayloy. "It's
Boft-nosod nnd Btoel-Jnckotcd."
Ho laid it down on a shelf and went
Into tho storeroom to wash the RtaltiH
of the encounter from his hands.
"Aftor nil," ho said, "It's nry ono
mote mystery, and I don't know that
one moro can make any groat dlrfor
enco. Not In our way of life, cer
tulnly." lloth tried to sllek to that vlow of
it and, for tho present, to dismiss
conjocturo upon tho now topic from
tholr inlndB, but thoy did not succeed
very well. The Idoa that forced Itself
upon them, In splto of tholr attempt to
discredit It, wus thnt Roscoo's acqui
sition of a modern, long-rnngo weapon
with nmintmltlon to match did not
dato back to tho murder of Captain
Holding, nor to tho dlsnpponranco of
tho Aurora, but that he had found the
weapon, by somo strange chnnco, only
very recontly, porhaps within a day
o two. It was a disquieting thought,
at best.
It was tlmo for Cayloy to turn In
nnd for Jeanno to bogln her ovonlng
watch alone, but before thnt hnpponod
they paid an extra amount of atten
tion to tho security of their doors nnd
windows. t
It wns a little beforo 11 w'clock
when Cayloy camo out of a deep sleop
to Hnd her bonding over htm, Blinking
him by tho shoulder nnd crying out
his name.
KING EDWARD
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for ofllcors, an ofllcer who It was
thought could not survlvo a serious
oporntlou. Tho king was coming to
tho hospital to pay one ot hla quiet
visits and tho patient, who heard that
bo was expoctcd and waa almost too
weak to speak, snld It would bo p.
groat happiness to him It ho could
boar his volco. Ho asked Sister
Acne, tho innnasrnr if it would be
"Oct up quickly!" sho cnld when sho
saw that ho was nwako. "Philip, tho
hut's on fire!"
CHAPTER XIX.
Roscoe,
Itoscoo had never been able to elenr
up his doubt as to Jeanno's Identity,
nor to solvo tho mystery of Cayley's
uppearanco in tho nlr. Tho doubt
and tho mystery tormented him worso
than any final conviction could hnvo
done. When he thought, as he pome
times did, that tho cause of all his
terror, tho thing which kept him
penned up hero In tho cavo and de
nied him access to more thnn tho fur
tive edges of tho beach, might be Just
n rather defcnsolcss human couple, n
man and a womap, nnd tho woman
beautiful, yosng, alluring when ho
thought of all that ho would go off
Into transports of rago, -which left
oven his gigantic body limp nnd ex
hausted. If that wero tho situation,
ho might havo killed tho man weeks
ago nnd taken possession of tho
woman.
Tho thing that kept him sane was,
In itself, n species of Insanity, the pns
plon for gold which had led him to
murder CaptnlnFjeldIng. Every day
ho tramped up tlio glnclor to tho gold
ledgo and thoro, while tho light lasted,
ho worked, cutting the precious metal
out of tho rock, nnd with Infinite labor
beating It pure.
As tho weeks and months drngged
along, this unvaried routine moro than
compensated for tho solitude and the
terrors his superstition thrust upon
him, nnd gradually restored him to his
old normal, formidable, brutal self.
On tho day when ho mado the discovery
that wns to terminate tlio long scries
of golden days which Joanne nnd
fu
Too Soon.
Philip hnd boon enjoying, ho was,
ngnln, the very man who. during those
long yeara of oxlle, had domlnntod
crew and captain of the Wnlrua and
bent thorn to IiIh will.
Ho was returning from tho ledge
along tho crown of tho glacier, whon,
on the day of this discovery, ho found
that his nccustomed path was Inter
rupted by a now fissure in tho lco; It
had occurred slnco ho had como thnt
way In tho morning, and' wub too
broad to leap across. So he was forced
to descond by tho rougher and moro
difficult track which lny along tho
moraine.
Rpforo ho had gone throo paces
along this track his eye made out
something, Just off his pntch and a lit
tlo below It, which caused him at ilrst
to uttor a snarl of anger, but led him
tho next moraont to glvo a wild blas
phemous yell of Joy.
Tho groat flsBuro flitch had opened i
In tho lco hnd done, In nu Instant,
what tho party from tho Aurora hnd
failed to do after hours of haid labor
It had yielded up the body of Perry
Huntor. which, during all theso
months, It hud kept Imprtuoned.
Strnpped across tho dead mnn'n
shouldorB, Just whoro ho had carried
It In llfo, was a rlilo and around his
mlddlo a belt full of cartridges.
Tho next Instant Hosooo wns bend
ing ovor the body, Jerking savagely
at tho frozon buckles which roslsted
hlfl Impatient lingers. Hut they wero
not to bo donled. If they wero clum
sy, tho handB wero Btrong.
It was not flvo minutes Inter when
Roscoo, rlilo nnd ammunition bolt In
hlB hnnds, was hurrying on toward his
cave onco moro. Tho body lay Just
where his desecrating hnnds had loft
it.
Tho rifle was uninjured; that ho had
neon at a glance, though , of course,
all tho mechanism of Its breech wns
frozen fast. Hut a half hour's hard
work with cloanlng rod and rags of
posslblo for hor to talk to King Ed
ward outside the open door.
Sister Agnes Bald sho vtould try to
do what ho wished, and having In duo
courso lud tho king thoro sho told him
what her purposo had been. In a mo
ment Kl"B Edward went through the
door to tho bcdsldo of tho sick man,
held his band for n long tlmo and
spoko to him words of sympathy and
counsel Whon ho had llnnlly said
good-byo ho walked Blowly to tho win
dow nnd looked qut upon well, ho
looked out UDon nothing, for tears
what once hnd been a shirt, sufficed
to put It Into commission again.
Then, with the rifle over his shoul
der, he swnggercd out of tho cav-s.
With his first glnnce abroad, ho
started. His (lc was being kind to
him todny. There could bo no doubt
of thnt. Only, was he being too kind?
Hoscoo wondered a little uneasily.
For, shambling nlong tho lco, through
tho thickening twilight, not 100 paces
away, wns a big bear Hoscoo was
tired of walrus meat. Tho thought of
a bear steak made his mouth water.
Thrco yearB' disuse, however, had
mado his marksmanship somewhat
uncertain. Ho fired too Boon, nnd
though ho did not miss, tho only ef
fort hlfl shot had was to mako tho
bear turn about and" go shambling
down tho glacier toward tho beach,
with ungainly haste, noscoo hurried
after him, nnd fired two moro shots.
Whelhr they hit or not, ho could not
tell. Certainly they did not servo to
check tho bear's flight. The next mo
ment ho had rounded tho corner of
tho cliff nnd disappeared down tho
bench In tho direction of the hut.
Hoscoo hesitated, but only for a
moment; then, with an oath, ho set
out In pursuit. It wns not so much
the protection which thu rifle afforded
him that was responsible for this new
courago ns It was that tho mere fool
of It In his handB brought him back
in touch onco moro with tho every
day matter of fact world, nnd made
his visions and ghosts scorn a little
unreal.
It wus fully dark down here In the
shadow of the cliff. Tho lumbering yel
low shapo of tho bear was Indistin
guishable against tho Icy beach. That
didn't matter, for he could follow
along well enough by the bloody
tracks the wounded beast had left.
The last of the twilight was still In
tho sky, and half his glances wero
directed thither, looking for some
thing which ho told himself could not
possibly exist, except In his own
fancy, yet fully expected to bco never
theless, tho shadow of Cayley's great
wings. And nt last ho saw It Im
pending in tho lower air, like a brood
li'g spirit, Just above the tiny square
of light which marked thu location of
the hut.
Hoscoo abandoned his pursuit of the
hear; all thought of it, In fact, was
gone from his mind; but ho did not,
as on a former occasion, drop down
prone upon the ground, his face buried
in his nrmsj nor did he turn and fleo
like ono hag-ridden up the beach. Ho
"This Air Will Bring
faltered, It Is true, and his knees
trembled beneath him, and yet, slow
ly and with many pauses ho mado his
way forward.
Mo was horribly afraid all tho tlmo,
but curiosity wns all tho whllo over
powering fear. Ho was not more than
200 yards awny when Cayloy alighted
besldo the girl.
At what he' Baw then, Hohcoc
dropped hit) illlo on tho beach, with a
whispered oath, and rubbed his eyes.
The light which diffused Itself from
tho open window of tho hut was not
much, hut It was enough to reveal tho
fnct that this great man-bird, this
golden-winged spirit which had kept
him In terror for his own sanity nil
theso months, was taking off his wings
and folding thorn up into n bundle, In
ns matter-of-fact a way as If ho wero
furling nn umbrelln. Ho stood there
now, Just nn ordinary human figure
of a man; tho very man, In fact, that
ho had Been before and would ha'xe
killed long ago had It not been for his
ovor-mnsterlng terror of tho thing
with wings. "
Ho presented n fair mark now, and
wns In easy range, but Roscoo wns too
thoroughly aatonUhed to selzo tho op
portunity, and ta a moment It was
gono ngaln. Tho two figures shrank
Into tho shadow of tho lutf, nnd tho
next moment tho light disappeared.
For n inomont, an accession of
wore rolling down his cheoks.
then slloutly loft tho room.
He
Good Idea for Wood Fire.
"Curious Ideas somo pcoplo havo ot
patents," a Now York coal dealer Bald.
"A man carao In hero tho other day
nnd wanted to know lfwo ovor heard
of boring holos in tho logs wo soil for
open wood fired, because, ho said, If
tho Idea was new ho waa going to cot
a patent on it. ,
"I asked lilmj what might bo the uso
of borlnr holqa In tho logs; to hang
of borlnr holqa In
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rago against tho two who hnd baffled
him and enjoyed Immunity from him
so long, almost led him to attempt to
break into tho hut then and there, nnd
settle matters; but his saner common
sense told him that the settlement
would almost Inevitably bo against
him should ho attempt It.
Ho was still entertaining this no
tion, however, when a luminous idea
occurred to him. Around on tho far
sldo of the hut, tho west side, which
looked toward tho headlandfl, was a
good-sized heap of flro-wood, which
Philip had not bpn nblo to find
room for Inside tho hut. Hoscoo had
with him a flint and steel and a
quantity of tow. Ho never traveled
without them.
With Infinite precaution against
nolso he begnn laying a flro ngalnst
tho windward wall of tho hut. Squat
ting, with his riflo across his knoes.
ready to uso in caso of nn emergency,
ho methodically whittled n quantity of
dry splinters off a few of tho sticks,
Ignited them and carofully nursed the
blazo, until, under tho rising wind, It
grow to tho beginning of a fair-sized
conflagration. Then, catching up his
rifle, ho slipped around tho other side
of tho hut, crouching down not moro
than SO paces away, and waited.
Already tho fire was burning finely
nnd tho Bllhouetted outline of tho hut
was plain ngalnst tho glow of It.
His plnn was a good one. The peo
ple lQsldo tho hut would have no
choice and, probably, no thought, but
of escape. When thoy rushed out, aB
they almost certainly would, bowlld
ered and confused, and plainly vlslblo
to him against tho glow of tho Jlro be
hind, them, it would bo eriBy, from the
onlo shelter of tho darkness, to shoot
tho man.
It was only, Indeed, by the merest
hair's breadth that Roscoo's plain
failed to work. Tho instinct of es
cape by tho nearest way from a burn
ing building is almost Irresistible, and
it led Philip and Jeanne to tho very
edge of tho destruction, which Roscoe
had planned for them.
Cayloy had his hand upon tho bolt
of the great door, whither he had
sprung when Jeanne's cry had awak
ened him, before the saving second
thought stayed him and hold him
frozen where he wns. For perhaps
five seconds he ptood thoro, while tho
memory of the unexplained bullet hole
ho had found In the body of tho great
bear, and the belated observation that
the fire, which was destroying tho hut,
must havo been started outside of it.
You Back to Life."
articulated themselves Into n perfect
ly clear porcoptlon of Roscoo's plan.
"The other way! Tho other way!"
ho cried, motioning Jeanno back
through tho storeroom. "Into tho
cavo. Ho Is waiting for ua outside.
That's why ho fired tho hut. Quick.
Wo must savo all wo can."
And so It happened that Roscoo
waRed In vain. Ho saw tho blazo ho
had kindled rench Its flery climax,
and then In Bplto of tho ley galo which
wns fanning It, die down Into an
angry, sullen, smouldering glow. But
no man appeared to furnish a mark
for hts waiting rifle, and no woman
wns dellvo'red defenaolcBS, shelterless,
Into his brutish hnnds.
The failure of hts plan brought
back n moraont or two of tho old sup
erstitious horror, but his mind wns
braced against It now and did not
rendlly glvo way. Somehow, tho fail
ure must bo accountable humanly ac
countable. At last ho solved this mystery, too,
partly solved It, nt least, for ho ro
membored tho lco cave back of tho
hut His first Impulse, when he
thought of It, wns to attack them
there and now, to chargo In over tho
red hot coals of tho hut and sottlo
matters onco and for all.
Ho wns sano enough to seo thnt tho
advantage would bo all ngalnst him
In close quarters ho could not do
them up? Hovsald every ono liked to
boo tho blazo la an open wood flro nnd
when it got low they poked It or put
on fresh logs Just to soo somo moro
flame. If you bored an' Inch holo
through tho middle of a log and put It
on tho flro with tho hole vertical it
would form a kind of chimnoy, and
you would have a cheerful llttlo Jot
ot llnmo cowing up through It until
the log was completely burned away.
"I tried It whon I got homo that
night. Hut tho Idea ot asking for a
patent on such a tblng as a holo!"
much with a rifle; and ho remember
ed tho deadly revolver shooting he
hnd seen upon tho body of the bear.
Also, ho would havo to go into the
dark, with the firelight behind him.
No. It wouldn't do. Ho must walL
Well, ho could afford to wait much
hotter thnn they could.
Reluctantly he rose, turned his
broad back to tho gale, nnd began ma
king his laborious way back to tho
cavo.
It was high tlmo. His face was
frozon already. Tho Intensity of tho
cold had already rendored his rifle
useless, for tho wholo mwclmiilbm of
tho breech wns frozen fast. H1b strat
agem had failed in its ultlmnto Inten
tion, for nnturo had laid hor groat icy
hand upon tho board and for tho pres
ent declnrod tho game a draw.
CHAPTER XX.
A Moonlit Day.
Tho midday moon hnd changed tho
Borabor purple of tho snow to silver.
Tho snow lay everywhere, savo upoa
the vertical face of tho cliff Itself, an
unront, Immaculate mantle over all
this arctic world. Tho valley, tho
hills, the beach and , the frozen sea
all lay at pcaco beneath It, "as If aslcop
or dead.
To Cayley, where he lay, suspended
In mldsky, the moonlight gleaming
upon tho sensitive fabric of his
planes, as it gleams upon tho faint
ripples on a mill pond in tho dead, of
somo Juno night to Cayloy this white,
sleeping, frozen world looked very
far away. Ho was a-wlng for tho
first tlmo elnco that eternity ago when
he had descended upon the beach be
side Jeanno to warn her of tho ap
proach of tho bear.
How long ngo that was, by tho
measure of hours and days and weeks,
ho did not know. Ho had no data for
nn estimate that would bo better than
a guess. Ho remembered how des
perately they had worked that night,
saving what they could from the burn
ing hut and carrying It back Into tho
cavo; remembered with what labor ho
and Jeanno had climbed the ice chim
ney to the only sholtor that now re
mained to them, tho little pilot honso
observatory upon the cliff -head; re
membered tho unremitting labor of
uncounted hours while they adjusted
their way of life to tho conditions im
posed by tho calamitous loss of the
hut.
But after that there woro lapses of
tlmo which memory did not cover.
During that time ho knew the ut
most fury of the arctic winter had
boon raging over them, without cessa
tion. They had been sheltered from
it down In tho heart of tho great drift
of snow which tho storm had heaped
about them. But, evon In tMs security
the) shock of thoso succesclro parox
ysms of nnturo'o titanic rngo reached
down and benumbed them, body and
soul.
But at la&t tho rago of the storm
had spent Itself and had becomo still.
Tho bitterness of tho cold relaxed and
became milder. Cayley had felt 1'no
blood stirring la his veins again, tho
power of consecutive thought and tho
ambition to live, coming once moro
Into his possession. Ho had gono to
work, feebly and drowsily at Hist, but
with constantly Increasing energy and
strength, at tho task of oponing up,
onco more, tio tunnol through tho
drift Tnhich the great storm had
choked.
Wbfin he had broken through the
outer crust of tho drift, and tho whtto
radiance of the midday moon shone
Into tho black tunnel where ho had
been working, he stood for a moment
driiwlng deep breaths ajid guying ovor
tho scene which lay befcath his eyes.
Ho hastened back into the little pilot
house.
Jeanno wari dozing upon a heap ot
bear-skins. He roused her with ernno
difficulty; really waking up had been
a hard matter lately, almost as hard
as really getting off o alocp. Sho
was still drowsy when he led hot
along tho tunnel to tho cIlfMioud.
"Breatho deep," ho told her. 'Wo
wore half poisoned In there. This sir
will bring you back to llfo again. Jt
and tho moonlight."
Ho had been supporting hor with
his arm about hor waist, but now, ns
sho held herself a little stralsbter and
he could feel hor lu-ngs expanding
with tho pure air she breathed, ho
withdrew tho arm and let her stand
alone. Even tho white moonlight re
vealed tho color that was coating
back Into her cheoks.
For a whllo sho did not speak at
all; then, as if replying to a com
mont of his. sho said:
"Yes, it's beautiful. . . . Bnt,
Philip. It's dead. Dead."
"Not this air that has orono hpar
kllng all through it. It is alive enough
to make your blood dance. It's doing
that now."
Ho tried to persuade ht.r to toko a
little exreclso along the length of the
tunnel, but sho demurred to that. In
stead, sho asked him to bring out
somo bear-skins and let her sit there
at tho cHff-hend looking out.
"And," sho supplemented, "If you
want to know what I should HUm most
of all, It would bo to have you bring
your wings so that I can soo you fly
ing ngarln, and n fleld-slasn that 1 ran
watch you through."
Ho felt somo hesitation, partly out
of a fear of leaving her and pattly
from a doubt concerning his own
strength; but neither of these reasons
was ono ho cared to avow. So be un
furled tho bundle that had lain dis
used so long, spread and tlghtonsd
nnd tested It, and at last, with n nod
of farowoll to tho girl, dived off tho
clirt-head,
Any doubt bo may havo had coo
cornlng his strength disappeared at
onco. Tho moro touch or thoso groat
wings of his scorned to bring It all
back, and hopo and Joy and confidnc
along with It.
(TO BE CONTINUED.
Vegetarian Boots and Shoes.
An entorprlslng manufacturer hat
discovered a process whereby a pns
ablo imitation ot leather may be man
ufactured from a vegetable product
Tho novolty owes its Introduction to
London voKotarlans, who shurtdord-at
tho thought of tho number of animals
that were killed annually to keep hu
manity In boots. Tho Imitation leath
er 1b being used for the manutaature
ot boots, shoes, Blblo covers ted a
hundred other articles usually found
In the art leather department
CARING FOR TUBERCULOSIS
Thirty-Nine State and 114 Local Sana
toria Provided, but These Aro
Only a Beginning.
In splto of tho fact that Rtato sana
toria and hospitals for tuberculosis
havo been established in 31 states, and.
114 municipal or county hospitals hi
2G states, vastly moro public provision
Is needed to stamp out consumption,
says tho National Association for th
Study nnd Prevention of Tuberculosis.
Nearly every state east of tho Missis
BippI river has provided a state sana
torium, and west of tho Mississippi
river, stato sanatoria havo been es
tablished in Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri,
Arkansas, Texas, Kansas, NebraBka,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana
and Oregon. Thoro, aro 38 sanatoria
provided by theso states, Massachu
setts having four. Connecticut and.
Pennsylvania three and Texas two. In
cluding Bpcclal pavilions and alms
house, there nro 114 munlclpnl or
county hospitals for tho care of tuber
culosis patients.
Apart .from theso institutions, how
ever, and a'fow special pavilions at
prisons, hospitals fo tho Insano, and
somo other public Institutions, a grand
total of hardly 200, the institutional
caro of tho consumptlvo Is left to pri
vate philanthropy.
PITIFUL SPGHT WITH ECZEMA
"A few days after birth wo noticed
an Inflamed spot on our baby's hip
which soon began spreading until
baby was, completely covered even in
his eyes, ears and scalp. For eight
weoks ho was bandaged from head to
foot Ho could not havo a stitch of
clothing on. Our regular physician
pronounced It chronic eczema. Ho is
a very able physician and ranks with
tho best In this locality, nevertheless,
tho disease began spreading until
baby was completely covered. Ho
was losing flesh so rapidly that we bo
camo alarmed and decided to try Cutl
cura Soap and Ointment.
"NQt until I commenced using Cutl
cura Soap and Ointment could wo tell
what ho looked like, as wo dared not
wash him, and I had been putting ono
application after another on him. On
removing tho scalo from hl3 head tho
hair came off, and left him entirely
bald, but slnco wo havo been using
Cutlcura Soap and Ointment he has
ns much hair as ever. Four weeks
after wo began to use tho Cutleura
Soap and Ointment ho was entirely
cured. I don't bellevo anyone could
have eczema worse than our baby.
"Beforo wo used tho Cutlcura Rem
edies wo could hardly look ut him, ho
was such a pitiful sight. Ho would
fuss until I would treat him, they
semed to relievo him so much. Cutl
cura Soap and Ointment stand by
themselves and tho result they quick
ly and surely bring Is their own rec
ommendation." (Signed) Mrs. T. B.
Rosser, Mill Hall, Pa., Feb. 20, 1911.
Although Cutlcura Soap and Oint
ment are sold by druggists and deal
ers everywhere, a samnla of- nnrh.
with 32-page book, will be mallod free
on application to "Cutlcura," Dept
29 K, Boston.
A Catastrophe.
A cat was being chased nlong the
roof of a Nsw York building. It lost
Ub balance and foil on a boy who was
standing on a balcony on tho second
floor. The startled boy fell In his
turn, landing on a baby carriage, for
tunately empty, which another boy
was wheeling In tho street. The first
boy dislocated his wrist; tho cat was
killed.
Feminine Reasoning.
Stella Her gown Is Just like yours.
Bella I don't caro If her's is a dupli
cate of mine, but I don't want mine a
duplicate of hers. Punk.
Modern Ethics.
Do not kick a man when ho Is down.
Turn htm over and feel In the other
pocket. Galveston News.
Dr. Pierce's Pellets, small, susan-coated,
easy to take as candy, rejrulate und invi'
orate stomach, liver and bowels and cure
constipation.
I know a woman who snys she mar
ried Just for fun. And yet some peo
ple claim a woman has no senso of
humor!
SEVEN
YEARS OF
MISERY
All Relieved by Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound.
Sikcston. Mo. 'Tor seven years I
Buffored eTterythlnir. I was in bed
lor lour or uvo aa3
at a tlmo every
month, and so weak:
1 could hardly walk.
I cramped and had
backacho and head
ncho, and was so
nervous and weak
that I dreaded to
seo nnyono or havo
anyone movo In tho
room. Tho doctors
gave mo medicine to
ease mo at thoso
times, nnd said that I oupht to have an
oporatlpn. I would not listen to that,
nnd when a friend of my husband told
ldm about Lydia E. Plnkham's Vege
table Compound and what It had dono
for bis wife, I was willing to tako it.
Now I look the plcturo of health and
fool like it, too. I can do my own house
work, hoo my garden, and milk a cow.
I can entertain company and enjoy
them. I can visit when I choose, and
walk as far as any ordinary woman,
any day in. tho month. I wish I could
talk to ovory suffering woman and girl.'
Mrs. Desia. Betiiune, Slkeston, Mo.
Tho most successful remedy in this
country for the cure of all forms of
female complaints is Lydia E. Pink,
ham's Vegetable Compouud.
It is more widely and successfully
used than any other remedy. It has
cured thousands of women vh havo
been troubled with displacements, im.
flammation, ulceration, lfcroid tumors,
irregularities, periodic pains, backacho,
that bearing down feollng, indigestion,
and nervous prostration, after aHMher
means had failod. Why don't you try it?
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