Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-02
XIII.

IN Inc ElO 1Ou8G
@AYLEY had been right in assum-
ing. as he did in his conversation
with Jeanne upon the subject,
that Roscoe and the other people of
the Walrus had never noticed the Ice
chimney nor suspected the existence of
the pilot-house upon the cliff -head.
Also, he had followed correctly the
track of Roscoe's mind in the deduc-
ton thai the two latest castaways
upon this land-that is, Philip and
Jeanne-must have persisted in the
great storm which began on the night
when he fired the hut, and continued
for so many weeks hat he, like them,
lost all trace of the reckoning.
During the storm he had lived in
the cave, much as Philip m Jeanne
had lived in the pilot-house on the
cliff; he had, that is to say, in some
purely automatic fashion, kept on eX-
listing. The mere momentum of a
mature mans vitality makes 1t hard
for him to die. But when the storm
abated and milder weather came he
bestirred himself, as Cayley did, and
set about digging a tunnel of his W
through the great drift which had
blocked the entrance to his cave.
On the whole, the long weeks he had
been alternating, for that is what his
state amounted to, had had a bene-
fetal effect upon him. He was not only
a again, but had ceased altogether
to be s-elf-conscious about his state of
mind.
That period of weeks when he had
permitted himself to be terrorized by
the ghost of a murdered man n an
old rosewood box, and what he had
taken to be an avengtng angel from
heaven, had no more connection with
his present self han the h~alf-remem-
bered delirium of a man who has once
been sick.
The next time the moon came up,
after he had completed the tunnel from
the cave, he set out down the beach
toward the ruins of the hut.
1t was not mere curiosity which at
tracted him, nor any lurking fear, but
simply the hope of making some SAL
wage from the wreckage of the hut. or
possibly, from the bodies of his two
victims, in case he was lucky enough
to find them there. He had no doubt
at all that they were dead.
His pleasure over the quantity and
condition of the stores he found in the
ice cave compensated for his disap-
pointment over not finding the bodies
of his two latest victims.
Evidently they a not ven attempt
ed to use such shelter as the %ice-cham-
ben afforded, for 1t showed no marks
of human habitation at all. They had
probably wandered outside and died in
one of the nearby drifts. Perhaps he
would find them some day. For the
present, however, the stores occupied
his whole attention.
Very methodically he set to work,
carrying them off to his own cave,
working without fatigue and without
MISUNDERSTANDING so long as the
moonlight lasted.
He was just setting out with his last
load when, glancing skyward to see
how long the light would hold, he
caught a glimpse Of Cayley on the
wing. The sight occasioned him no re-
rn-no even momentary-of the old
terror. He cursed a little because he
had not his rifle with him; the sky
man soaring slowly and not very high,
presented a mark he could almost GER
tainly have hit.
1t was surprising, of course, to see
him alive, but Roscoe. In his present
state, never thought of looking to
supernatural e to account for the