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Show ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS I BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON I "ISHTU'S HUT" Nick looked at the map he had been J given lo guide him and Nancy on their trip to the south roiv "There ehould be a hut heir," he said. "It's marked The House of ghtU the Eskimo.' " "Why there It I!" 1 1 Nam .point I ing ahead to where n low nonnd of Ice a tid snow puheri up from the tint ground I like Uie head of a large mushroom. ! "That' gueer!" said Nick. "It wasn't ! thaN minute fino. I ause after we had( like ihe opening to a beehive. Dropping on their handa and kne&s tho twins ernwled inside, finding themselves In a ort of hallway cut out Of solid Ice. at the far end of which was a thick curtain of walrus skin. I "Please muy we come In?" called Nick as he decided that as there was really no door. It was useless to knock. 'Sur,. conic lr. called a cheery voiced in ESeklmo. but of course our little friends understood as easily as If It had hem Vuii riean. because Nancy atill carried the A low mound of ice and snow like the head of a Urge mushroom come through the golden door in tho Ice wall. T looked as hard ns I could In every direction and there wasn't a thing " "You must have been dazzled by the ice." remarked Nancy, "for there 11 Ii Ninl I'm tlUhfry, and a little cold and I jrlilnk we'd lettei find the door nml ask If We M) L.'' t w i mi " ' The iieen .lioe piloted them snfel over the Ire to the "Igloo." as Eskimos all their houacs. and they soon found the little low doorway that looked almost charm that the Magical Mushroom had given them when they left the Fairy Queen's Palace, the charm that helped tln-iii to underetand all languages. They lifted aside the heavy, stiff cur-i cur-i tiln and entered. i At first ihey could Scarcely see at all for the smoke, and the only light was coming from a vessel of burning grease Then ihe made out the figure of a man. (Copyright, 1921. N. E A.I |