The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-10-26
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On inc Top Ol luHlulueh lNs w
crouchod the oight'lesgod thing that
had boon seen three days beforehand it
howled horribly
"Let us follow" said tho girl. at
may know some way that does not lead
to sedna," but she reslod from weak
ness Us she took the pulling rope, Tho
thing moved oil slowly und clumSily
across the ridgosy heading alwaY9
toward the westward and the land, and
they followed while the growing thun-
der at the edge OF tho foe rolled nearer
and nearer. The iloO'a lip was split
aud cracked in every direction for three
or four miles inland and great pans oil
ten,ioot thick icc, from few yards to
tWOnty acres square, were iolting and
duCking and burgiug into ono another
aud into the yet unbroken foe Is the
heavy swell took and SHOOK aud spou,nd
between them. The ballurlng-yam leo
was, go to speak, tho frat army that the
sea was illnging against tho hoe. The
incessant crash aud jar OF these cakes
almost drowned tho ripping sound OF
sheets of pack ice being driven bodily
under the Hoe as catus are hnstilY
pushed under Iableclolh. Where tho
water was shallow these sheets would
be piled one atop oil another ti'l the
hotlom.moat touched mad illty leet
down, and tho disC0IoTe1 sea banked
behind tho muddy ice till tho increasing
pressure drove all forward again. Tho
many shadows and sand banks on the
uortheagt coast OF Bylots island madcit
impos5ibB 70 inretell tho course OF the
rushing ice. For Instance, in addition
to tho Hoo aud the patk ice, the gale
aud tho currents were bringing down
true bergs, sailing mountains oil ice,
snapped oil BY tho trogt from tho
Greenland side OF the waiuror the north
shore OF Melville hay, They pounded
in solomuly from tho of.lHg, the waves
breaking white aropud Ihem, AMI ai'
yanced on tho foe Ike an 0ld'tlne heet
under full sail. but a berg that seemed
ready TO carry the world before IT would
ground ,helplessly IN deep water, reel
over and wallow Ia u lath0roi foam aud
mud aud living frozen spray, while Il
much smaller and lower berg would rip
and ride into the flat Ice, linging tons OF
No on either side, aud cutting track
mils long before it was stopped. Tho
bGrgi wero perhaps tho most terrible
things to watch, because there was no
saving how or Whoro their towers and
pinnacles would fall alter the shock oil
collision. some Tell like swords, shear
ing raw.odged canal through the Toe;
and others, falling oil hard ice, could
not speak through It, but splintered
into a shower OF blocks weighing scores
OF tons apiece that whirled and circlOd
among tho hummOCks. Others again
rose up bodily out OF the water when
they shoale1, twisted as though in pain
ana foil solidly on their sides while
the sea thrashed over their shoulders.
This trampling and crowdlng and bend
ing, and buCkling aud arching OF the leo
into every po,sibic shape WIS going on
~ far az the eye could reach all along
tho north line OF the doc. From wherO
Kotuko and the girl were the confusion
looked no moro than an uneasy, rip.
pling, crawling movement under the
horizon, but 1t came towards them
each movement and they could hear Tar
away 10 tho lnudward u heavy booming,
as il might hayo been tho boom oil ar
,illery through fog That showed that
tho foe was being nmmed against the
iron cliffs Of Bylot's island, tho land to
the southwark, behind them.
This has never been before" said
Kotuko, staring stupidity. "IlHa Is not
tho time. How eau the foe break
now2
Follow thatr' the girl cried. point.
ing to tho thing. hall limpiug, hall run.
ming, distractedly before them. They
followed, Juggling At the hand sleigh,
while noHrer and nearer came tho roar.
Ing march OF the ice. At last the tiCldi
round Thorn cracked and starred in
every direction aud tho cracks opened
aud snapped like tho teeth OF wolves,
But where the thing rested on n mound
Of old and scattered leo blocks some
fifty feet high, there was no motion.
Koluko leapod forward wildly, drag !od
tho grrl after him and Craw!sd to the
bottom OF the mound. Tho talking Of
the icy grew louder and louder round
;hem. but the mound stayed fast, aud
~ tho girl looked at hun hu threw his
right elbow upwards and outward,
making the inui. sign for land VI the
shape Of an island. Aud laud ii was
that the eight-Icggod llmping thing had
led them to-sone gtauite.tIppod.
sand.beachcd islel 0l tho COAT, shol
and bhuathod and masked with leo 80
that no man could hayo told il from tho
Hoe, hut at the bottom solid earth aUd
not shifting. drifting leo. The smashing
aud rebound Of tho lloo', az they ground.
cd and splinierch, marked this borders
OF il, and n irisndy shoal ran out to tho
norihward aud turned aside tho rush OF
Tho hcayiOlt leo exactly aga plnwslmre
turns over loan. Their was danger, OF
courss. that some heayiy.squcezBd ict
field mightshooi up the beach aud plane
oil tive top OF tho IDIOT bodily. but that
did not trouble Kotuko aud tho girl
when they made their suowlouiu aud
began to cat. and heard tho leo crack
aud hammer aud skiI along the beach.
Tho thing had disappeared. aud kulukO
was taking cSulIuIiy about his know.
Ledge oil and powrr over spirits as he
cTauchod OiCr tbs lamp. IN tho middle
Of hi' wild sayings tho giA began to
la1gl aud rock herself backwards aud
forwards.
behind her shoulder, crawling into
Tho hut crawl by crawl, thcrn woTO two
h1ads-uno yellow and opr back-thnt
belonged to TWO VI tho most sorrowinl