The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-04

showed in. up there on the elm head.
q, and Of our inside passage leading VI
That's quite true:,' he said, II sup
does give one a certain feeling of Sc
we're not reduced as yet 10 anything
as intangible as that as a subject for
giving thanks, You haven't seen the
whole Of my list yet. I've saved the
best till the last"
He turned the paper over in his hand
as he spoke. She did not attempt to read
side him. her hands casped about ono
knee, her eyes upon the booted foot
which was poised across. the other. and
IT'S not so very much. but it will
mean an immense lot to us. What peo-
pie die of in the Arctic Is not so often
disease or accident, or even. directly
cold OF starvation They die more often
Of disgust and WEAKNESS and exhaustion
from his general stores some luxuries
and delicacies. or things that would seem
to be such to men In their plight, to be
used against emergency. I'm sure that's
why he took them UP there and hid them
away. Part OF them are left, / wish he
could have known to whom they were
with brandy in 1t. good sized pot nearly
full of beef extract. jar of dried eggs
three. tins OF condensed milk. a big ten
pound box Of Albert biscuit
His voice broke Off there sharply, but
without the downward Infection she
would have expected had he reached the
ly up into his face. AS quickly her eyes
sought the bit OF paper which still lay
open in his hand.
You didn't nnish.'' she said. There
was something else"
Il thought too late,-ohl it's nothing.
put ~ caught me-rather, and l thought
it had given me. 1 might better have
read 1t right out. 1t was a big plum
pudding, pIs.,r in a tin: you know-Cross &
l suppose. to lend some sort Of an air
of festiyity to their next Christmas
The girl rose from her seat beside him
while gazing out up the beach.
When she turned back. he saw that her
eyes had dimmed little. but the tone in
which she addressed him was steady:
We'll, shall we go TO look for our other
cave, where the real stores are? There
wont be anything. heart-rending about
that. at all events"
Cayley did not rise when she did. but
remained. looking rather thoughtful. just
where he was, The girl misinterpreted
his hesitation.
said "Of course we'n wait"
NO; that's not It, was only think
winter on what we've got right here
the bear, the birds and what stores We
round In the observatory They wouldn't
more than last till the winter was over
they would do that"
You don't mean not TO try TO find the
other cave?"
NO, II was simply a question of MAX
lnG what we have got safe and shipshape
hrst-spending as much of this fine day
as is necessary getting in more wood
butchering that bear we killed last night
before we go out on an exploring ex-
petition that may prove wild goose
Il see" she assented thouehtfullv.
You ;, OF, mean what Tom would call playing
went on. but what weather. wisdom /
have gained up in this part OF the world
makes me suspicious that we're about to
have change"
The girl sighed somewhat ruefulJv
You lou are horribly reasonable" she said
me thought Of going back to yester-
iS aaH ofudSery her muscles were still
sun sun from. instead of setting out along
that sparkling beach with Cayley, In
search for their Aladdin's cave, was one
thal TOOK some courage 10 face. Never
theleSS, her hesitation was only momen-
tary,
Aye. aye, captain" she said. holding
want Ugs her me hand ia So5S to him. What do you
He left her provided with a jack-knife
he had In his pocket and the task OF
SKIM ;sktin1nng and dressing the rest OF the
the day before. Those he had already
prepared were to be hung up with these
IN IN their cold storage cellar back of the
He himself with, his sheath knife and
the axe head he had discovered fitted
INTO the broken handle OF the pick. for a
the great bear which he had killed the
night before. The bear was a colossal
specimen. and this fact. together with
tools. made the job long and arduous
one. But 1t was accomplished finally and
sne four quarters Of the huge carcass
immense white pelt. which had been
scrubbed with sand and wet wood ashes
from their REPLACE, was stretched be-
hind IL tc dry.
day at the task Cayley had assigned T7er
and by constant repetition had already
grown expert at It The amount she had
she decneG to aow him him greatly bur
merit either of her application or her
sElil, and did not take kindly to Cay
would pass for a days work.
r,s@ SO T., they effected a compromise. Cayley
W vas orS TO go out and bring In, load or two
II was just about tho same time in the
ai,ern1on i, that IL had been yesterday
and had come flying down out of the Sky; Sky
| to drive away the sudden nameless Ter
Tor which had beset her, That thought
Yea @dod d'm: now now to visualize some sticks OF
L.
mad been lying on the beach near where
ne had found her. Thinking that II
drag them In, he got a harpoon line. and
n was the girls question what he meant
to DO, do With the rope. which caused him
, 20 teli her what part Of the beach he in
| tended 10 visit. He asked her then II she
cared TO come with him. but. after a mo-
'nents hesitation, she declined
| IL VIII be high time for supper before
you can get back" she said. 'and Ia
better stay here and get it ready, that
| is, unless ! can help YOU"
| SO he set out alone
For awhile the occupation OF setting
their dlsordered living room to right nnd
| gettlng tho supper started were sufficient
70 take the whole Of the girls attention
But later when II was a question merely
OF waiting for the pot to boil, and of moi
watching II so that It would boil sooner,
she moved restlessly 10 the door and
stood there, before the hut, gazing down
the beach In the direction Cayley had
| taken He was already out of sight
| around the headand
The gorgeous riot OF color in cloud and
! Ice and vapor, which marked the end OF
the day. had already set in. But this