The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-09-02
PERIL. ISL AND.
By SIDNEY DREW. oopyrsht 1908. BY W. 4. Hearst

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/, mo overgif you tried b A long as the
men stick II I don't care. We've made
our Wills, and we have done something
for them. Justice is Justice. my boy.
nothing else. ri 60 on as long as you
like, or as long as the men like but the
moment one OF them protests. we must
put our nose north In. We have no
right 10 tnko these lads into y dnnger
against their will. They are not sol
diors. = l5 la
Give nodded e
''Thnt settles IT,. he answered. "At
the first protest we turn back barring
the starvor, old chap" rs n ri
1t was wise and honorable decision.
Before them lay the unknown, and tho
unknown Is always terrible. Certainly
never die even when every inch OF the
earth has been exp1ored--had sailed
nlong the rim OF the eternal southern ice
and viewed the fires OF Erebts and Ter
ror, Fearless hearts had struggled to
penetrate the adamantinc crystal bnr-
rler, lighting with cold and scurvy and
still the lord and conquerer. ..
1 II was thinking OF what you told me
the other day. Ncddy." said Clvo.
what was that. my SOM say lots
| Of things" t{s 5
about Grnydon Garth. How will he
| find you II he wants your
my son." said Lcckburn "I am not
fool enough to think that Grnydon Cart,
will cvor want me except TINT he Is fond
| Of me- No man Is indlspcnsn bio to
Graydon Garth. His friendship Is tho
/ jewel value highest in this world cx-
ccpt my wife and child. We're to tell
| Graydon Garth that placed him before
i Ju,ifo n mi child ho ~,
like worn -out glove. He is the great
est, noblest. most powerful man ever
born, but he Is a man, though sometimes
have thought him more than human.
Perhaps as the world grows older. when
| science has yielded up her secrets. when
brain has conquered the hidden things
OF nature. thousands OF years hence,
other men may equal him. He has In
him all that thousands OF years OF pro-
grcss can teach. Grnydon Garth, who
lives In the twentieth century. is such
a man ms the hftieth century will pro-
ducc Find mel Leckburn laughed
thunderousy. MY boy. were In Mars
he would find me II he needed me.
~ think that Is why am never afraid.
i I owe film my life a score times over.
i My lips are sealed. or could tell you
4 stories that only your friendship for me
would make you credit. Other people
would laugh. They would not cali mo
Il llHT, LOT Z CHlHeT. lOO DIG lOT55 Inc
i ordinary person to insult. They would
] have their opinion all the same. But I
i have not broken any pledge to my lord
4 Garth by. making this extraordinary
1 voyage. II he needs me. as told you.
hc-wil find me-" n
.ItttClive was .silent, Then he said
! LII have ia tclittlg trump card up my
sleeve Neddy,Fbute1 can't tell you the
i color or the value Just yet. BY Jove.
1 isn't that splendid?"
a fan OF silver light flashed upwards
In the southern sky. It filed the grey
heavens, flushed from silver to yellow.
TO: pink. to crimson. to dnzzling gold. and
! then died OUT. Above them blazed the
| Southern Cross, and the chill breath OF
! the eternal ice was waited into their
faces across the mysterious silence OF
! the darkenng sea.
! It was, a time and place to make men
think. Leckburn threw away his cigar.
They We're nearing the lex gates OF the
/ great unknownyG A. week would, II all
went wellr bring them to the crystal
| portals where nature cries to puny man:
"stand back! Fly. II You would live. for
| II You advance I must slay YOU! This is
the lone land Of Ice everlasting, moro
bitter more awful than the Icy regions
at the other end OF the earth. Beware
| In time. for here no man can llve!'
The watch had been doubled. for sevee
raj icebergs had been sighted. The
chart showed tho South shetlands to be
near. Over and over again they had dis
cussed Juan Gaskara's directions. The
latitude and longitude OF the old pirate
were utterly impossible What human.
! beings had ever found such a spot rs
! the Intersection OF these two Imaginary
| lines would denote?
There was a passage clear in May"
Clear OF what? The answer could only
be Ice. Tho "Flame Mountain might
be Erebus. Terror. or perhaps some I'M
discovered volcano OF the Antarctic re-
glons. The night seals thunder WAS
definite enough, but what OF the blood
water, and tho current that smoked?
Their only hope was to push south and
trust to time and luck to solve the myn-
terry. Black Juan's directions were too
hazy. vague and indefinite to steer any
thing except a blind mans course by.
Time was not allowed to hang heavily.
1.ecl1burn and Hector were too wise for
that. They organized games and thea
fo'c'sle as we'll as aft. Ruby had got 4
band together, and the din they made
when they practlsed was almos. enough
to make the engines go out OH strife.
Tho starver presided over the big drum.
while Mumps. Lascar, regularly blow
himself into persplratlon with from j
bone. Every man had the full run OF
the library, and they were supplied with
a whole compendium OF games
On the eleventh the first grea: snow
storm broke over the Silver star. ana
she encountered mountainous scas The
cold was terrible. Furs were served out,
and the electric stoves were KEEP: burn
Ing throughout the ship. So tremendous
was the fall that It was difficult to keep
tho deck clear. For five days the white
flakes poured down from eaden sky,
Then it cleared, and the heavens blazed
with consultations, whilst the Southern
Aurora danced and flashed and glittered
In sheets OF colored light
They met at dinner, On deck tho
thermometer registered 1twenty-three ds-
grees OF frost, There was not a ripple
on the water. and the biting air was
still and clear Ruby was wearing no
less than seven walstcoats. and tn
Tor lilo a Ia