The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-05-22

"A Da5hto the Pole G
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By Herbert D Ward.


both mean well. my boys. and vour brave
will touches my heart deeply. But the sue
cess of the expedition 10 the first considers
ton. Individual glory is secondary. Mr..
use of the needed instruments. OF course
/ must go. Now to stay with the ship in
wolves plenty Of hardship, plenty of grit.
and more than that, the success OF the eX-
petition. Tn base Of supplies must bs
we'll guarded. The professor must always
stay by his ship. You two may lave to Or
Ranize and carry out the relief: Your
obedience, are as valuable to me as Mr..
Balls chronometer. What do you sayY"
II will obey" said Jack Hardy with q
sigh.
Royal did not speak. He covered his
face and sat dow upon the bank.
heater and the cooker was almost q sacred
rite. A Buddhist might have Thought ii
30. The sergeant made il sufficiently i'm
pressive. For" said he. I'VE shall take
the remaining twenty-four matches with
us, that We may not freeze on our trip.
Your fate il in your own hands, and If, by
any misfortune. mi or both should go ont,
with electricity. The problem lies with
you"
Every man began to feel that life was
serious at the eighty-eighth degree.
BY the way" whispered the sergeant 70
Prof. Wilder, taking him by the arm aside
= few minutes before he was to start with
the tutor on the terrible tramp. 'have you
found out what was the matter with the
machinery? Do you think you can pick US
up at tho pole?"
II found that tho oil on the bearings, of
the propeller shaft was frozsn stiff. That
is sufficient to account for tho gradual
stoppaee."
keep the oil from f~reezing?" The sergeant
thought he was scientific.
mot enough heat could be generated ia
overcome the inertia of q q trsmsn-
dously low temperature. II So, the bear
ings would have been burned away.
lis this = fatal dangsr?"
"We shall have to return without OIL"
' 'Can you2 Have you power enoueh"
I'VE must" answered the inventor pluck
lily. And as for power. We have enough
stored to keep aRoine for six months
steady. II I can clean that oil out--you sec
I must take the machinery apart guess
Wen get it yet; she needs = rest: she
ought to have three weeks. When will you
Al, whom indeed! 10 carry provisions,
sleeping bags, instruments, spirits of wine
and of hope over ar ioe-blocked journey
of two hundred miles, in such . tempera-
ture--When inlRQt tney foturnF me Dan
ger of attempting the passage of the At
lsntic in a f~ftesn-foot boat was nothing to
the peril Of scramblinR = hundred miles to
An unstaked spot and finding tho way
back. Three miles would make a toll
some days journey. And then, hour OF
resting, or trying to rest, in vet bags.
nourished on frozen food! Does this not
require the indonitable spiritual energy
of hope, a. we'll ~ the physique Of an Ice
lander?
The sergeant shook his head. 1--WE have
six weeks provisions which We shall cache
az We proceed, and pick up on our way
back. As l directed, you will cache pro-
visions four days journey luz north for III.
We depend for our lives on them. I have
indicated tho spot. I think you had better
send a relief party as far as you can 90. it
we don't turn MP in thirty-tw days"
He then delivered written instructions to
the professor. to be infinitely followed, gave
detailed cautions a. to the torres. examined
the box Of twenty -four preoious matches,
lighted a lantern. which was to be their
means of getting fire. and walked. with a
load of seventy-five pounds on his back,
resolutely and quietly out of the car.
The tutor had proceeded him. 1t was not