Show I 1 DEE IRS A 0 WILLIAMS 01 ol B BEN E NAMES AMES WILL WILLIAMS IAMS 7 W U FEAT too THE STORT SO FAR robin 1 dale toane an roa in roe to in in monte u 4 bay y to in if win will when will if h at 1 n killed d hii brother so bob abe nn to anar alth cruiser to in a hun while ahe li on I 1 cloird A 77 in ane boat tails be her air ml pt Donot ioe and b boy romeo end en d labrador tha ba boat I 1 mixed W altlan el d kli cuha contraband b in d alcohol b an jenkins it ayas to P from I 1 lnla la 11 I 1 ito ittem stranded D n ilu andai pat at kaid robin are in ernnt to in ct ne hidden in cv held dd by AI nu ruth robin ha I 1 just tbell alm for attack now with win UHS rooty CHAPTER XIV th the two men turned together but robin said it q quietly I 1 wait please suppose he kill kilis both of you they tood stood before her like guilty child children the heat of battle di 13 ing to their eyes then Ang angus nodded lm in act sort of submission she he a rig right I 1 pat he said we can t ris risk is th that a t we 11 try to manage without a fight pat fat after a moment suggested uncertainly if there s no fighting to be done does yet a while r we could be after building th that rock pile you mentioned the work will keep us warm need to be plenty high eight or ten feet iny anyway ay for them to see ashore robot robin said 1 I can help some angus looked at her appraising ty IF rain drove about them though fintis now new her heavy sweater was sodden with water hanging about b her r hips her head bead was bare 1 her hun hair wet and dripping and her lips were white with cold her teeth clicking ile he stripped off his leather picket aaen c came n me toward her sorry I 1 didn dian I 1 think of this before he said put it A on it s sopping wet but it will break sit the wind a little N no please she urged 1 I U have t to take mite my chances with the rest of y you no you can t stand as much as we ton can here H u 11 9 ee 91 1 submitted and pat pulled his stag shirt off over lits liis head bead and it came me chuckling to make her put it OR on they laughed together at the figure she he made lost to in its immensities it hung like so an hovemo overcoat I 1 almost to her knees the two 0 men man turned to attack the task and robin followed them the rounded mottled ledge like a hump that on as bare bar oi of bould boulders end and rock fragments the materials for the cairn they aneano meant to build would have to be carried laboriously to the peak or it if they were too heavy to lit lift 1 lolled I ad war over and war over up the ledge th they ey went ant methodically to work in but il robin chose to stay near angus to h help elp him when she could to talk to 0 it him when they were away from pat list she he said at slowly ay will you ten tell me honestly just how bad this I 1 isa WS was that sti st story I true the one pat to told id about the pa people who could see shore freezing and it starving 7 1 I never heard it 11 he sold said but pat at s N newfoundland born and bred probably it was true 1 I came to newfoundland fishing with my father fathe r once we had fog fg I 1 tor or two wee weeks 1 A evaun the cadroy codroy oy fa fog and ram 1 11 and id cold 1 it maybe abbe it won t clear off for days those spells do happen he admitted in led soberly but were not badly off for a few days we can keep warm in by huddling together at night how ow long will it be do you suppose pose before someone comes will that p plane a be hunting he smiled at her in a qui quiet t reassurance dont try to think thead ahead live an hour at a it time a and don t be frightened fright tires allt you out kee keep P steady A person in can go a long I 1 time into without food if f he hes a not scare scared it weve eva plenty of water as long A as it r rains ins and therell be some nine in pools in the ledge edge afterward and when it stops ta raining tiong if the sun comes come out we can dry out we can dry our int aiches at cli ches manage a fire well we U pull through Y le were re work working 1 g while they Is talked allied pan panting t n side by side climbing to the peak of the ledge he with A great rock in his arms s she a with a it lesser bar one she realized suddenly that she was happy to toiling g thus beide bedo him life was b becoming ag avob simple reduced to fundamentals she anni smiled a it and it said that cake of chocolate is the un dost st important thing in the world t tight 9 ht now isn ti t it that and mr air j jenkins a oilskins oil two skins and a c chance h once to let get out of the to ram kopd he nodded va yes of course its she said half to herself its queer P to think we might all die he ere a people cople do queer things have hav e qu queer eel h feelings eel when he they I 1 re afraid fr d of 01 dying boig sh she go smiled at her own thought ag angus I 1 know an old own man to i dij maine wo he has a big orchard ind nd in he told me aan an interesting thing a nee if he said d that at it an apple tree ying it t ba beara lid better ette r t than ban ever to 11 d the end lie he said if you bruk he down a branch and it left it anding nag ba by Y the bark that branch n lit id think it was dying and it 1 would I n ad have lots ot of apples on it or if Y t take a 4 buyea two year old ld tree and tie lie bit of 1 copper w wire around d the bark at 1 l tyvr kabalk the f foot the h t tree will th think it s boing to die and it will bear apples is g before it would otherwise he tanka lu I 1 the e trees are trying to pass on w white hile they still can he bent to tumble a log big boulder over and over up the ledge she olver tr tried di to he help P him but he put her 1 i 1 1 I can no rou anage nage he be said aid Y un hurt urt your hands he thought people were the same wy way she he suggested suggest it she said abe maybe M mr jk J jenkins k would give that ih chocolate Is 1 to me if I 1 asked him 11 he ll e looked iu up at her quietly miss D dale m a tight 9 t place any woman I 1 13 a aroa liability b I 1 clity dun don t expect chivalry evl from oJ jenkins enkins or llomo romeo you and pat gave me yur your clothes they might give me my chocolate if I 1 asked ihnow them if they knew it was there they would set eat it naturally unless the they 1 ve a I 1 already fl lady low done so I 1 wish I 1 in belt it there when pat called tied that he could see land I 1 forgot all about it 11 he did not answer he rolled the boulder laboriously upward to add to the little pile already gathered OR on top of the ledge she f found it one she could carry and by the cairn pat met them he said by the feel of the wind wit its colder he added pointing painting the land a oft it that way it lw ew 10 b v jenkins Jent tins was there watching her so bound to be east that makes make the wind northwest the way it s coming g angus us said laid indifferently yes pat pat urged then it juat uit might blow clear this afternoon if we could build this pile of rocks high enough before do dark rk them show ashore might see are he chu chuckled kled I 1 it as soon not spend another night like last unless I 1 have to angus h looked a at him and h his I 1 B BY eyes I 1 quickened he g glanced once d tou toward ad the cleft below below them them where the shelter was we can t b build ut id it high enough gh to ma make a much show alone he said but th those two tw might help if we put it to III them right I 1 U try they dont know what we re doing he a wen went t it down own toward the cleft but before showing himself he called halloo jenkins I 1 want a word with you jenkins after a moment answered him bring the irishman and the girl so I 1 can see the three of you yoni i right bight here we cornel comel i they approached the lip of the cleft jenkins when they it first rat saw cleft h him was inside ide the shelter watching warily for their appearance but t as gawn soon as he was sure they were ail 11 three together he stepped outside his h I 1 a weapon in his hand AU AH right he said speak your P piece angus did so he explained that they had seen a the mainland and a village a while ago when for a moment the fog lifted then the th the ram at I 1 shut in again but now the weather cut her a changing the wind s v backing into the northwest th that means a it may clear but it alt will probably I 1 bably haul into to the northwest again tonight tonight I 1 if it does th that t it may stay th thick for days day thu this afternoon may b be f a ou our r I 1 last A I 1 glimpse of if shore for a while I 1 a pat an and d I 1 hv have started building a cairn hoping see it but haur four out of us can build something bizaj sizable is a lot quicker than two of u us A if we c can make its bed a showing tabo before 1 r a dark and it clears they may see us tonight he asked crisply W will you he help P kf mr jenkins considered in dere it romeo came to his side md and je they I 1 spoke in th then mr jenkins ankins said wi whispers 0 okay py mcphail well we 11 help only it its understood that you wa wont wt fin try any V tricks and it a understood that the shelter here afi is ours tonight or any time today if it st starts arts to rain again m jenkins a I 1 said aid slowly 1 nothing Ol hoolI s bui understood at d halg angus 0 o told b him curtly you 0 cia n help or not just us Bs as YO you like its theres no promise bromon on aut either th er side I 1 it a jenkins too grinned amne how have it your our start star t brou trou trouble ble I 1 way but if you w Y you own chances A and 4 any take you your athe time we want the shelter well take it im coming up now DOW back off I 1 dont want either of you too near me it gives me the fidgets H he e took a step toward them said aid over a his shoulder come on romeo work up a sweat meat and you U feel better about that pretty face ot of yours yourn he told robin grimly romeo a afraid the girls won t like him any more after the way you cut h him I 1 up you d better e t to r keep away from pua addoe from h him he t like you as a much as he did he came on and robin stared past him box trying to see into the shelter is wondering whether they had f found it the chocolate hun hunger ger was a wolf 1 in her she had never wanted anything as much so as she w waed wanted led that at cake of chocolate now angus angue held he her arm dr drawing ng her b back k as mr M r J jenkins enk I 1 ns and romeo rome came toward tord th them am A moment loter later fr they stood in two gr groups aup s twenty set feet part apart and mr j jenkes an k ins surveyed the situation this supa U island was humpbacked as its name 1 implied its top was naked rock rising to a high point fifty yards away from where they stood there pat and angus had already 9 piled 1 I e I a some me loose rocks together on the a b bald aid 1 ledge edge a few rounded boulders were scattered here and there ind and angus said now th the handiest rocks are on the other side in a fissure of the ledge jenkins said olay okay you and P pat at work from there them and we 11 work fr from orn here I 1 don t want t to get too close to you you might F get t fuimo B and id have to kill you after tuf all hodde angus nodded right h he a agreed lie he turned away and pat and robin followed him during the hours that followed while the wind b blew it ew colder and the skies began t to clear a little the four men wor worked li ad top speed at this thin task t that ha at might lit bring rescue but mr jenkins and it romeo rome never forgot to protect prot t themselves thoi against at surprise the they y took care not but to come me near car either ahe pat or angus if mr jenkins approached the gs growing wing pile of rocks when they were near bear it he dropped his has load twenty or thirty feet away left it for them to fetch he worked ked st stout t ly enough and so did romeo in but t they maintained an equal vigilance robt robin worked as A she he could lit vitt but she had to rest often and when she rested cold drained life and strength out of her she was desperately pera tely hungry and the thought of the chocolate ind and the question whether it was still where she had left it was like a madness in her she thought she might somehow manage to reach the shelter unseen and recapture 0 it t and d once th the a gujt ot fur thought t h took t o k form m it obsessed 0 abse ased her she began to watch for any cher chance but for a long time the enterprise was clearly hopeless jenkins and romeo were lugging boulders up out of that break in the cliff where the shelter lav and one or the other was almost always rhth there M midday 11 1 day came and w went t once I 1 the up sun shone 1 a briefly then lost itself again in a 8 driving scud of low clouds the four men a became more and more absorbed in this thia business which engaged ent them hem they were drunk with wit their own labors hem blind wat with a tomm lia agni mounting fatigue gue working in a zi ns mg ing haste the small huddle 01 0 houses ashore sh ore was visible now miles away for th the fog had 1 hd h d and for fog bad the w wind t blew a hard I 1 and j w cold i the he men raced to own accomplish ibba it on as I 1 much I 1 h as a possible before der dark came d down once mr jenkins mounted the growing pile and looked to toward ard shore and waved it his orand arms h he even hallooed hallowed hallo oed as though his voice mi might carry over the intervening in miles 1 I 1 but in mid afternoon mr me jenkins rod and R romeo had bad already carried all 11 the usable material fr from the upper part of the lit teak break in the cliff face up to the growing pile rather than the descend the steep a slope ope thirty or foat forty y yards ards they worked along the Is level v el f farther arther and farther from the cleft robin saw this and since I 1 in the intoxication of their fatigue they paid less ind and less attention to her she began by y slow degrees to move near nearer nearer care the ti anere oil all her thoughts centered pat and angus I 1 on the other side of the dome were war out of he her sight except d when they app approached roache the growing cairn romeo yards away to the south was hidden behind so an I 1 intervening te ter arong ledge she st chose a moment when mr it jenkins I 1 the only man in sight had his back turm turned eony to h her er and d dropped do down into the cleft clef and it d darted u cited to the shelter she had left the chocolate among the loose rock piled together as a windbreak at one end but when she came there now she felt a sick it dismay ab nb efta tk R romeo m an an and j an n to improve prove a the barricade she he had bu built t on that tha t a side de had added other r rocks k to those these she had piled there if the chocolate was a still dl there it was 1 she tot deep berv buried it she I 1 began to zw drag r the rocks way away W working kirg in it desperate t aruo haste s t peering in into the rocks cracks per among g them she saw at it last the thing she sought ought but she he had to move still in more boulders lidra lid ra before she could dors draw abw the I 1 cake of chocolate free she managed it and turned to crawl out into the kopew ope air then she topped stopped still on hands and it knees a an sick rick with terror mr J jenkins an I 1 was there a dozen feet wah way away wt watching in g her with tb an ironic smile TO BE continued CONr iWED |