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I I . -- lump of spermaceti, it will keep i I , 'FotaJ a a vhw fc I I W V 1 1., on na came ruuy back to the prea- - out having made any new dlacovery 01 importance, either. Thera wu a ..iuLira, Did you succeed In accounting for little of caat-of- f rticli 'nf varinua tbe thing you uken me about laat tort, chleflv rlothlnc hlrh future uigui, me mark 00 the map right here prlvatlona might make uaeful to them. wnere mey built the hut afterward There waa a great froien lump of I didn't find anrtblnc about It In brownish crecn veaetatlon. which thev the journal, but thla morning, before afterward identified aa the edible DreaaraRt, when I went outalda tha acurvr craia to which rantaln Field- out, one glance at the fact of the cliff S had referred In hla Journal. accounted for It fully. The cliff la That waa all, or they thought It waa, apllt right here, from too to bottom, hut Just aa they were about to re- by a deep, narrow fiisure. The fissure ,rac their atepa to the hut,, Cayley la full of Ice, which I suppose hasn't happened to glance up. The roof of cave was not very much higher meitea lor a thousand years. No sum- mer that they could have In a high lat- - than It had to he to permit blm to itucie like this would ever melt IL cer-nd erect In It, something under aev- en feet; but here at the further end talnly." Tbe girl laughed and roae from her of 11 he saw a circular, chimney-lik- e nle. about two feet In diameter, lead- place at the rude table. "Well she asked, "are you readr ln8 atralght upward through the solid Ice in tbe Assure. lor my discovery nowf She took down bis pocket electric CHAPTER XVI. bull's-ey- e from th shelf behind her. neid out a band to him and, on tip Footprints. toe, led blm. with a burlesque exag had nothing to do with the Nature storerof Into the geration mystery, out oom. As completely mystified in formation of It, so much waa clear It had been cut out by hand, reality as she playfully pretended to enough. and evidently with infinite labor. want him to be, Cayley followed. over it did Flashing his bull's-eyShe went atralght across the store not enable him to aee the end of It, room to the rear wall of the hut, the but it did reveal a series of notches wall that backed squarely against the sheer surface of the cliff, flashed on running straight up the two opposite surfacea. The only purpose they eoutd the bull's-eyfor a second, apparently serve would be to make possible the to make sure that she had chosen the ascent of the chimney. right point In the wall, then, letting Jeanne followed his gate, and then go hla band, she stooped and picked the two So He Set Off Alone. looked at each other, com a of at stick which up lay puzzled. ber feet with this she atruck pretty pletely "Some one must have made It," ahe everything Inside Is quite undisturbed. it waa, waiting, I suppose, to lend I. I doubt If a single member of the Walhard upon the planking. The Bound i some sort of an air of festivity to t "and It must have been fright which the blow gave forth was as said; bard sus saw crew even or ever rus' next their Christmas." It to make a tunnel right up fully hollow as a drum. Tbe girl rose from her seat beside the Ice like that But what pected that such a place ezlated." through him and going over to the window, "A cave!" he ex In the world can took unbuttoned hla He and Jacket Cayley started. it they have made A cave nere: on, I aee. for! stood for a while gazing up the claimed. from an Inner pocket a acrap of beach. " It's a cold cellar they made by cutting "I've no idea," he confessed, "but It a hole in the Ice that filled the fissure. It was Just about the same time In "Being a methodical person," he ex and I mean to find goes And why do you suppose they boarded out somewhere, plained, "I made an Inventory. Its the afternoon that It had been yesterwhere." It upr day when he aet out a wing, to find 'Don't follow It too far," ahe cau really quite a respectable list" The girl laughed delightedly.. E?I- - tioned. "It would She seated herself beside him on her, and bad come flying down out of need one foot only as yet developed the sky to drive away the suddenthe paper. gently she had not. p off one of th08e ,cy notcnes t0 the bunk as if to read of her discovery. She brI "I Imagine you w II need an Inter- - nameless terror which bad beset her.; a dretdfuy ugly fall- ,bout flashed on the light again. .0oe cou,dn.t fR far down a tub, preter." he said. "I've half forgotten That thought led blm, now to vlsua-- f Look!" she commanded. of that diameter, unlesa be had com what these tracks mean myself. My lize some sticks of wood, rather toot In the center of a little circle of were so stiff with the cold It large to carry, which had been lying pletely loat his nerve, for there's al hands ' now illum wall which the bull's-ey- e where he had found wasn't very easy to write. But that on tbe beach near And a to chance self. one's catch ways then her. Thlnklna-- that It would ba a And is inated Cayley saw tne barrel of a word first telescope. you're to remember that I'm used to Instrugood time to get them and drag them rusty hinge. falling. No, I'll be as safe tap there aa there are the meteorological and "You see," she went on, "it's a door, I would on a in, he got a harpoon line, and it was , ments, thermometers, barometers, turnpike. Yes, really.1 and they only nailed It up tbe other With that and a nod of reassurance, ao on, and the Pboenlz'a compass, sex- tbe girl's question what be meant to-- j a microscope, do with the rope, which caused blm somewhere he scrambled I day. There's a Simply Clung to Him. up into the mouth of the tant and chronometer, ' a oven here that's oulte bright I caught the and a big chunk of tell her what part of the beach he in- - j parafOne long chimney. He had taken his he-hof her we unloaded " before can i I tended a oil He to was while an of Iff asked ber visit then happened I it lamp, rummaging gnnt bull's-eywith him, so the girl was parafflno, SYNOPSIS. stores, our plight would have been fore breakfast, and that was what left In the dark. 8he dropped down about half full of oil, and a amall she cared to come with him, but after i utterly desperate. Of stores In tbe made me look." on the heap of bear skins to watt for stove. There was a providential treas a moment's hesitation, ahe declined. Philip Carter, wuiid of a crime of "It will be high time for supper be. , ure for me in tbe form of a razor, ordinarily accepted sense, ahe baa nut wnicn he la not guilty, rcsigna from th darted back Into the living him. Cayley I fore for which you can get back," she aald, "andif ffmy In disgrace and Ma affection for a scanty supply, and those of a mis- room, returning almost Instantly with used, suppose, cutting they She had no means of measuring the puj friend. Lieut. Perry Hunter, turns to inferior description; but she tbe broken-handlesections with. I'm glad I'd better stay here and get It ready erably microscopic In ne wnere a and pick. aeemed It ..eu. seeks aoiliunr, time, perfectly eerfecta alayiey rfylna; machine. While aoarlnu contained half a cargo of whale oil in In less than a minute, with a pro terminable while before ahe heard they hadn't a mlcrotone to do It prop- that is, unless I can help you." the Arctlo reslona. he plcka up w are now which that i'' j So he aet off alone. they barrels, eurlousljr shaped atlck he had seen In the testing squawk, the rude door swung I Cayley returning down the Ice chlm-ope- erly." . in a nana. Mounting again, ne ow landed will settle tbe problem of fuel awhile For the of find comb a did saw for "You them Just settings' didn't before realme, occupation and Had how known they she ney. long It overs a yacht anchored In the bay. survivor 01 whftt tccndin Caylejr predjcted. A rather 7 waa, ahe would have been Justified you?" ahe asked. "Because, unless their disordered living room to rights h. n,ata a for us as longcanas the lastremain alive. our to on an Ice floe. He learna that the Cjrl hope company but narrow cavity, tbe aides or I n feeling seriously worried about elm, you did, or until you do, you won t and getting 'the supper started were prls name la Jeanne Fielding and that And fuel Is, after all, the only neces- high, sufficient to take tbe whole of the " which were the naked rock of the but not knowing, she attributed the be allowed to use the razor.' come north to seek algns has does not f her father. "I suppose I could make you one, girl's attention. But later, when It was1 Fielding, an arctlo sity which this land itself Captain cliff, but the floor and ceiling solid seeming duration of his delay to tbe xplorer. A party from the yacht la ma. supply us with. Of course we shall Ice. tedium of Bitting In tbe dark, with or a sort of one. It would be genuine a question merely of waiting for the 'ng search aahore. After Cayley have to forego the delights of bear Jeanne finds that ha had dropped departs pot to boil, and of not watching It so a ex nothing to do. Even at that, she was Ivory, anyway." tbe the fact that girl's Despite Planck and steak when our ammunition gives out, atlck. that It would boll sooner, she moved to He had end the come, of the conscious of of when a over the surviving crew of Captain apparently, relief the citement feeling discovery hla wrecked whaler re In hiding on the coast A but walruses we can kill with bar cave ruf-fa- n restlessly to the door and stood there for a moment carried Cay she heard him call out to her once of the list. giant Field had, named Roacoe. had murdered poons. And witn tnese ana scurry ley along with it be was not greatly more, cheerfully, albeit somewhat Well," she aald, "I suppose we before the hut gazing down the beach ") and his two companions, after the find something to do with al- In the direction Cayley had taken. He had revealed the location of an grass, which we gather in the valley gurprlsed ftnd not at tll down mouth! might from the chimney's hollowly, enormous ledge of pure gold. Roecoe then summer, there Is no danger 01 then. most any one of those things; some was already out of sight around tbe every of where are ftf end Bllnute, flye you?" jeanne, Jgok command of the party. It develops nat the ruffian had committed the mur-- r actual starvation of them will be useful, certainly. And headland. Here, Just where you left me." hasty exploration, It was made eviwitnessed Roacoe plane "We hoisted the barrels of blubber dent It's pleasant, somehow, to think of our of All while! "Here! tbe must You that to capture the by Cayley. the to supply them ample a with and esrape with a hand little pilot bouse, all snowed In, up Philip, and ahe gazed with straintns 2 . i load of gold.yacht to not was be been half frozen. I've the tells Fanahaw, out of tbe whaler's bold Jeanne Jig which gone stores tbey sought owner of the , about the visit of the tackle, sledged them ashore along the be found, here. and of our In- eyes toward the narrow bit of slant i f , there on the hour." an of better part and yacht left stick him the shows by crown of the glacier to "I didn't know how long it was, and side passage leading up to it" ing beach around tbe base of the head J would herself not, rayjey. Fanahaw declares that It la an floe and the Jeanne perhaps, used to ehoot Moseley's cave, which aeemed to be throwlng-atlcJklmo Tom That's Quite true," he said. "I sup land which was the place where ht Ci had I kept thinking you'd be back any a so entertained have hope high the returns from Fanahaw jarta. to store arching natty with a anralned ankle. the moat convenient place she learned of the reference to the minute. . . . Dut where in the pose It's all romantic nonsense, but it must appear. He waa not to be ex " rry Hunter la found murdered and them temporarily." does give one a certain feeling of se pected yet, not for a long time, probi Ml other cave which Cayley found in the world have you been?" ayiev la accused of the crime but Jeanne . However," he went ably, for his progress, Mllevea him Innocent A relief party goes Cayley laid down the book and Journal before she herself had chanced By the time she asked that question security. dragging those w uu me searchers. Tom proreasea nis turned to the "we're not reduced aa yet to any great sticks he had set out to brins girl ove for Jeanne, upon the mouth of this one. As It they had groped their way back into on, fihe rows ashore and I'm as Intangible as that as a sub home, must be slow. perfectly tbe "That's thing liv storeroom were and place, into thence the the iters an abandoned hut, and there finds was, bis theory that the stores wners aiary, which discloses tne e sure." be said. "It evidently faces tn h fniinrt room of the hut and by now she ject for giving thanks. You haven't And then, even as she looked, sh In a cava vaguely situated ing piorers suspicion of Roacoe. The ruf- tne glacier, oui u must oe i .an returns mRde ule ,rapreg. was looking at him In the full light of seen tbe whole of my list yet I've saw him, not moving alowly with bis vey to th hut and sees Jeanne.the gIader( 8,oDg I . ..... tnat day. is intent on murder, when the ky- the beach, for they wouldn t have saved the best till the last." mhgt hor nnnn but hit at burden, msata aaaik.K. running At running aJai He turned tbe paper over In his topmost speed, like a man In fear oi further than He dropped down, with a rather ex Jeann under thelr been fght rfves Cayley her father's diary hauled those barrels any lhey aa he spoke. Sbe did not attempt something. ' hand no ana one of r - tou. the bunks, tm yacht disappearIO I J "vs. necessary. plosive sigh, upon hands. i - treatise; IU VeIUrJ II ed "Is that all be says about ur t,.t nairatinn made it and poked tentatively at his thighs to read what he hud written, but sat forward U Jeanne's only hope The Is In Cayley. Instinctively seriousness of their situation becomes ap- "It's all he says directly, but there's deaf that bether he Wft9 rIght or and shoulders as If they were numb there beside him, her hands clasped meet him, and this move of hers en the skyman, lni4a cayI a reference Just a little runner aiong Frnr 10 Ml.. and about one knee, her eyes upon the abled him to see her. He slackenet K ley Kills jeanna W.v. ha ceruinly she was wrong, she was with fatigue. booted foot which wss poised across bis pace due to rho hiding place of the stores. which made me all the surer i was b,tterl "I think by a reasonable estimate.' disannoInted. Cayley was Instantly, and waved hei Let's see." wnra nf timt. even as they stood I he said, "that chimney Is five miles the other, and waited rather tensely back toward tbe hut She obeyed tha' light Mm to tell her. He opened the book again and ran CHAPTER XV. Continued. imperative gesture of his, without hes B,de by Me wth no nght t0 see high. I kept going and going and go- for A nunorea- us I to or noi so very mucn, out it win itatlon, but still remained In the door believe till there Ibat 8ald bis eye down the page. began ing, 0th!ng. ber fawj b, she some mean an immense ioi to us, What way, watching him as he- rapidly drev A" or spermaceti ana two wasn. t any end to it: knew, nevertheless, ttI(, nll. . "Why, I found an unmistakable ref wnlrht or so . I . or. , mat.- ny .. .. . . ... I ..I , .fa. I u.rrv-uwe on oown a people die of in the arctic is not so nearer.. or or tne omer, lire mkjs moment suppea i all thB sperm barrels magic erence to It and though the exact lo tbat tor jUBt I was I often disease or accident, or even, di what is as I one. went Dut this as often of her: out had up When he had got near enough s nil oonrnen yard osina cation wasn't given, It waa plain that to the hut' here, HI I did get to the end at last; and I'll rectly, cold or starvation. so They die that she could see his face and read for. the there, figure knew that looking tnree or four hours' exolorinc by day slight f - "The knowledge we get by expert- - clo8e beside blm, was drooping, trem- - give you a thousand guesses as to more often of dlsicust and weariness more or less, what she saw there, sh , . light would enable us to find it But Your father knew again moved forward to meet blm and exhaustion. what I found there." ! ven if i hadn't minded leaving you ence often comes too late to be of any buDg a mtlo. he from his gen- and this time he did not wave he set and she some hazarded. that "The apart I us. made ber observatory," hand a upon to ua iaid steady asleep here, unprotected, in the hut I great service -not really? I did not mean eral stores some luxuries and delica back. When he came within arra'i doubt very much if I could have found mistakes in stripping the Phoenix, houlder. Almost Instantly, under his "Oh! but honest guess at all. It was cies, or things that would srem to be reach of her, he caught her and he!, an for now. For with that not turned to hlra, caught should repeat she I which touch, 't at night But what's the mystery of first the Just unbottoned house, at her edges thing tbat came Into my such to men In their plight, to bo used her tight in his two hands. pilot boln nand9 the instance, carrying you were about to reveal to me?" I'm sure that's how could they pull the against emergency. cliff- But bead. to the and, wore, be woolen "What Is it Philip?" she asked Jacket up Infinite labor, tbe with roUgh more "No." she said; "tell me about - .obbinsr a little now and then, but otn- - pilot house or tne rnoenix up tnrougn why he took them up there and hlti tboris It the depth of bis eyes am an for observatory. searching Jour discovery first. What was the hMd tltum away. Part of them are left I to him. that IK tie hole In the ice?" this to tbe horror she sav purpose, for clung silence, in plumb erwlse simply trying Impracticable oughly reference In the Journal?" I times "Well, to tell the truth, I don't be-- 1 wish he could have known to whom In them." "What happened out there? arms, to jie djd n0t offer, with his what He rose and took down from the I doubt If I have visited it three to use. were be of There's with was be answered lieve tbey going did," turn to I sav But tbey 'Nothing happened. draw ber any closer, helf the big leather-bounvolume since Mr. Moseley's death'" In It, a good something there that made me ana' ti sa iha Astronomer an J botan- - mam instinctive anneal to the protec mocking- seriousness. "It's more like-- a little cask with brandy hlch was proving Itself, with every full of beef extract, a lous for your safety. . . , It's al ef his strength and courage, into ly that they took it to pieces, and then- sized pot nearly ts, . of father's expedition." said the i tIonemurace. hour, their greatest treasure. - o . m.vw v.- - right now you're safe. Nothing ha a uauu uu a ukum, ne an kku epi "It's over here, toward the end," he ..... f I - . . I. wM nr mn. densed milk, a big box of happened here, has there, while I av'j' hauled it outside. and bead cliff . v ui now mun ner on: uui snouiuers, Cayley read aid, "in that last winter when the jor I have but port than anything else, and waited But when they got it up there tbey Albert biscuit" been gone?" have learned my leason, Walrus came oh, here we are." I 1... f.a. fa. a aa.1,A Ills voire broke off there sharply, It together again right across the am. put oe.ore ua me to. What could have lajl a moment oluo. the "Nothing. Knowledge He seated himself on the bunk be-I- little to apply all," he said at last. "what fissure, and then tunnelled down, or but without the downward inflection pened, Philip?. most utterly "After It can't be anythl ii : the I believe, is. walrus her, and began to read. It she would have expected had he tbat you're afraid to tell e," hpra la lust so much clear up. the whole depth of the clilr. saueo ever iu that hulk "March 10th. We have Just spent sbjt.'. uu gain, and it will be immensely valu- - must have taken them weeks to do It reached the end. So she looked quick- went on, for he had not answered heif n arduous and fearful week upon .ana ill found, detestaoiy u"7 cand Into bis wue iuface. me we ana As ueu u ly curiously up imu uuii bu tsn wnai I It "There can't be anything you'd b Jf the task of unloading the wreck of the literally rotting to pieces. We shall, able tO US, tOOtlgn is their super- - side connection between it and the quickly, her eyes sought the hit of pa- afraid to tell me now not after It timfact that The and yet pected. " ' whaler. The weather hr.s been severe however, get enough plankt - hut o that they were quite Indepen- - per which still lay open in his hand. shed or two flulty, "the things they. hadn't any para build to terday." her of out dearees Fahren- bers "You It must And didn't bitterly cold ent of doesn't the weather. she said. finish," use "There for, Immediate Miliar or "Oh, no; it's not so bad as that, bu J heit being the mildest) and near tne nut, iur make what we've found bere any the have been a great place to make oh- was something else." I saw that I had been wrong to leavjh our supplies. of most of the of a gale blowing "I thought too late. Oh! It's noth or near servauons irom. storage even for that little while. Vo ' book. 'Tbata less valuable to us. That pile time. The men are inclined to be re"Have been!" she echoed question- - ing, but it caught me rather, and I you. Again he closed the will supply what is, at this there "You sklns said. see the he sight of the place brought bellious over my driving them out to ut,.' t sa lookln for." thought I would spare you the twinge back to my mind what you had tol m.nt. the most vital of our wants, lngly. "Isn't it now?" from down stuff that ork in such weather, but I dared not see they brought "No, because It's all snowed and that finding It had given me. I might me ).. Mr sack anoears to contain n these sheds: so the cave yesterday of the terror you hni .t.. -lt for It to moderate. will j froze In. It's burled, I don't know better have read It right out. It was tusks walrus and those first tbe felt there, and of the thing that vo ' Inevitably .tmnaf ka vi ! "When the Ice opens round the number of purposes forks bow many feet deep by this time, and a big plum pudding, In a tin, you saw in the serve any of think would twilight And so I looie, whaler, she will go down like a plum- hiding place they ona thing. 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