The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-10-28

II all day and ne thought Ii was the tor
mao of the stone speaking to him. Be-
lore he reac he'd home ne was quite cer-
tain that he had held a long conversation
with her, and, IA all his people believed
that this was qGite possible, 10 enc con-
tradicted him.
"She said to me: Il jump down. ]
jump down from my place on the snow, ,"
cried Kotuko, with hollow eyes, l0aning
forward in the halt lighted raui "she
said She says: 4 will guide you to he
good seal holes. Tomorrow | viii go and
the tornaq will guide me. "
Thea Ang, Jk, the via re sorcerer, came
in and KotuKo told him he tale Sec
ond time Ii lost nothing In the telling.
"Follow tho tornait Esprit OF the
stones) and they VIII bring US food
again," said the angelSok.
Now the girl from the north had been
lying near the lamp, eating very little
and saying less tor days past, tut when
Amoraq and Ksdlu next morning packed
and lashed a little hand sleigh for kotu-
ko and loaded Ii With his hunting gear
and a. mucn bluhber and frozen seal meat
a. they could spare, she took the pulling
rope, and stepped out boldly at the boys
side.
''Your house is my house." she said,
as the little hope-shod sleigh squeaked
and bumped behind them in the awful
silent Arctic night.
"My house il your house." sgid Kotu-
ko, "but | think we shatl both go TO
Sedna together"
Now Sedna is the mistress Of the Un-
derworld and the Inuit believes that every
one who dies must spend year IN her
horrible country before going on to quad
liparmiut, the Happy Place, where 1t
never freezes and the fat reindeer trot up
when you call.
Through the village people were
shouting 1.-The tornait have spoken TO
Kotuko. They will show him open ice.
10 will bring US the sal again. Their
voices were soon swallowed up by the
cold, empty dark, and Kotuko and the
girl shouldered close together as they
strained on the pulling rope or humted
the sleigh through the broken ice, in the
direction OF the Polar sea. Kotuko in
sisted that the lorna Of the stone had
told him to GO north and north they went
under Tuktugdjung, tie rei5deer-what
we call the Great Bear.
No European cou q bave msde five
miles day over the ice rubbish and the
sharp edged urifts; brt those two knew
exsctly the turn Of the wrist trat coaxes
a sleigh around a hummoCk, the jerk that
neatly lifts IL cut OF an ice crack, and The
exact strength that gees TO the few qaiet
strokes OF the spe ar Etad that make
path possible when every thing locke
hopeless.
ihe girl So id othing but bowed her
head, and the long wolverine fur fringe
to her ermine hood blew across Ter
broad. dark face. The sky above them
was an intenss velvety black, changing
TO bands OF indian red on the horizon
where the grsst stars burned like street
lamps From time to time greenish wave
Of the northern tights would rcH across
the hollow of the nigh heavens, Il ck lit
n flag and disappear; or mstcor rfui
cfacklu rom darkness TO darkness trfi ine
o. shower o. spatks hehi8c. IAcl ..sy
.,I'd see Tire Il cej sEu IrrOAel sur.
lace OF lhe Toe iDpcd and laced with
strange co,ors, red, copper and blu sh;
but in the ordinary starlight everyth ming
turned to one frost bitten gray.
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