The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-11-03

the girl were the confusion looked no more
than an uneasy, ripping, crawling move
ment under the horizon, but il came to-
wards them each moment and they could
hear far away to the landward a heavy
booming. as if II might have been the
boom of artillery through fog That
showed that the foe was being damned
against the iron cliffs Of Bylots island,
the land to the southwark. behind them.
This has never been before" said k0-
tuko, staring stupidity. This is not the
time. How can the foe break MOVE"
Follow that" the girl cried. pointing
to the thing, half Iimplng, half running.
distractedly before them. They followed,
tugging at the hand sleigh, while nearer
and nearer came the roaring march OF.
the zee. At last the fields round them
cracked and starred IN every direction
ana the cracks opened and snapped like
the teeth of wolves. But where lie thing
rested. on A mound of old and scattered
ice blocks some fifty feet high. there was
no motion. kotuko leaDed forward Wild
~. dragged the girl after him. and crawl
ed to the bot ON Of the r. 1und. The talk
ing OF the he grew loader and louder
round them. but The mound stayed fast.
ana as the girl looked al him he threw
his right elbow upwards and outWards
making the mutt syn for land in the
shape OF an island. And land Ii was that
tina cight-legEe3 iimplng thing bad led
chem to-shme granite-t.p7ed sand-beach-
e3 is7et Off the coast. sh01 and sheathcd
and masked with Ice SO that no n8n-c0u.d
have told II from the hoe. hat at lie bot
tom solid earth and not shifting drifting
Ice The smashing and rebound Of the
foes as they grounded ana snIfntere1.
marked ne borders Of Il, and a friendly
shoal ran out To the northwari and turn
e3 aside the rush ~ the heaviest ice ey-
sctfy a. a plewshare turns over loam.
There VAS a danger. OF course. mat some
heavfv-squeezed ice field might suoot NJ
.Ne beach and plane Cr the tor OF the Isl
e. bodily. but that IA not trouble Kotuko
ana the girl when hey made their snow
ho.Se ard began 20 eat and heard the fee
crack and hammer and skid along the
beach. The thing had disappeared. ara
Kotuko was talking excite3ly abou; his
knowledge Of and power over ertrf.a 81 he
c~ouche1 ever tne lamp. In tie middle
~ his Mild sayings ne girl began 10
hnEh and rock herself backwards and sor-
wards
Behind her shoulder. crawling into the
hut crawl ny crawl f1erc were two heads
One yellow and one black-that belonged
~ two ~ ne mos sorrowful and assumed
dogs that Hou ever saw Eetrto the dog
was one. and tae black leader Eeas the
other Both were uow "a. wei -frsofyfrer
and quite restored 10 the.r proper minds.
b'it eoapled 70 each other ln an ex+ra 3rII-
nary fashion. When the black leader ran
or. YOU remember. his harness was stlI
on him. He must have me- Kutuko ard
played or fought with him for his shout
der loop mad caught IN the plated CONFER
Esre Of KotukOs collar and had drawn
sight. SO thar neither dog could get al -ho
frace . gnsw y apart. bat was fastened
sleelong 70 his neiEhboT's neck
The Fivl pushed tha two Sharrefaoeg
creatures towards Kotuko and, sobbinp
wa laughter. cried '-'TAas - Ougeuarn
~Fach led us 70 safe ground Look al bla
eight legs and double head
Eotuko cut them free. and thes. fell lnfo
ms arms, Yellow and black together. try
-DS 20 explain fNp% they got their senses
back again. Kotuko ran a hsrA 49,
faeir ribs. which acre round and wei
cle<Hed They have found food. lie aaf3
"lin q grin. II n nor raiuk we shan ~
- Se3Ha go 5000. NV t7raaq sent THESE
4ae sickness has left them"
As soon as Jney had greeted Ko.t.lro