The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-31

muscles. In a dazed way he longed TO
meet his pitiless pursuer face TO face
and grapple with 1t. He would set his
teeth in its necki He would crush il
with his arms, Then he laughed joy
lessly at his strange conceit. II ad-
vrsary was an omnipotent nothing
an intangible. nerveless. fearless. pitt
less everything icy abstraction, yet
real as death. And Hanway. felt
transient thrill of joy at the thought
that ne alone defied this subtle, terri
bic something-this gigantic foe that
fought Ike a coward.
In the evening a fireman. totterins
under load of wood, volunteered some
informa ticn. ITS down to 10 degrees,
sir; and the ice is running a bit,
You're a liari" sndried Hanway.
that sent him spraying under his load.
Would she stand fifty-seven
pounds?" muttered Hanway TO him
self. the last reading was twenty-five.
We've lost twelve-twelve what?
Twelve years-no, twelve miies-no, de-
grees-.''
BY d curious mental process at which
he himself wondered vaguely 1t seemed
to him that zero was death. Why zero?
He didn't knOw-but somehow, zero
was death.
Turning TO the firemen. he ordered
one on deck TO see how the mercury
then stood. The man returned sneak
ingly.
How is it2" asked HanNay.
The bearer Of i'll t.dings withdrew TO
q safe distance before he ventured to
answer as one who coufesses his quit
/ IT'S no better sir-it's worse. sir-it :
dropped 10 nine, sir.
Hanway seemed not to hear. His
| ewes were r'veted upon the gauge. the
/ Indicator had just touched fifty-seven
/ At midnight the pilot bawled frantic
ally down The tube for less speed. Hot
wav stuffed 2 handful of waste into the
tube. A minute later there came d
! grinding. slushing sound. Then the
Lucas shook herself shriekns aho
| grooming through all her timbeTs,
! reared like frightened horse-ahu
l stopped stockstin.
! Hanwav was thrown to the floor In
/ a dazed mechanical way he seraab bleed
! 10 his feet aga n. shut down the engine
! ard rnFea sod th, steam. Then. vaguely
( realizing that the race was lost and ms
adversary upon him. his legs gave way
and the light in his brain went on
/ quickly like snuffed candle
| When he awoke the dirty day was
f;1terins through the griny windows
ne was alone in the engine room he
law still for some time. blinking at the
| van light. He could hear voices oil
command upon deck and the creakine
of windla sses. For moment IT seemed
To him that he was already dead ano
these we're sounds above his grave
Then realization of the situation calnS
upon him. The Lucas vas on a bar
and the crew was making ready to spar
her off.
] 81 arfcah1rd muscles
sboted wood into the furnace. Then 10
set the pumps to work They would
need steam, he thought-steam for this
eapstans. They would need steam. A:
for him-he had lost. He no lonsei
felt any interest in the affair. He had
fought a good fight and he had lost
he tottered up the stairs and went OF
deck. Considerable ice was running
The bow of the Lucas was thrust fal
| I'D onto a bar and the ice was already
lodging about her. He went to th'
thermometer and found the mercury a
degrees below zero
He grinned as il occurred to hin
} that he had now been dead five dc.
grees,
All night the crew heard the grinding
and chugging of the ice about the LII
cas-. 1t was the forging of the chain
! The fugitive had been captured, and
, the captOr was fastening H1anacleS up
on the conquered In the morning tbs
| river was jammed with ice from banl
TO bank.
For a week the crew scarcely stiFret
from the engine room. where thes sa
! about sulleniy. They were beaten, and
| they did not care TO see the complete
i ness of their defeat
-Four hundred miles lay between then
, and Fort Union; and below them. thre'
hundred miles away. was Fort Sully.
With the beginning of the secons
} week the temperature raised; fine
| dry snow began to fall. and with il fel
, the awful winter hush.
! Hanway went about as maj
J stunned Re ate mechanically and sci
dom spoke. His eyes had the dull, ez
prsssionless stare o. a sick sheep
) The matter Of food now became Z