Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-28

her side in an instant, his strong,
s~teadying arm across her Shoulders.
Tom himself half rose from his chair,
only to drop back into It again with .
grimace of pain and a little lev of
perspiration on his forehead. He looked
rather white himself under the tan.
II suppose" the girl said almost
voicelessly, II suppose I mustn't dare
even let myself begin to hope yet,
must ]. not--yet?"
Il don't know" said Tom. THE feI-
low seemed half-crazed; seemed, al
most, to have lost the power Of speech
from long disuse Of It, but he meant
to take US somewhere, that was clea,
enough from his gestures. II l couIc
only have seen you before 1 began to
blurt the thing out, I'd have spared
you the suspense until there was some
thing to tell. I'm sorry, Jeanne"
His contritio1 seemed to serve as q
stronger stimulant than his fathers
caresses. She went quickly oyer to him
and took one OF his hands. "Don't
worry, Tom. dear" she said. Even
at the worst, they'll find something,
and that's really all we hoped for
when we started"
She seated herself on the arm Of his
chair. steadying herself with one hand
upon his shoulder. There was no rela-
tionship of blood between these two,
but they were ike brother sister,
for all that.
IT'S queer she said, at the end of
a rather long silence. I'm sure there
was no Portuguese in fathers expedi-
ton. Except for two or three Swedes
and Norwegians, they were all Ameri-
cans. I know the name of every mar
who sailed In his ship"
He might have taken some one q
at st. Michaels," suggested h elder
Fanshaw.
Yes" she said a little obviously,
only he never thought much of south
ern Europeans as ~seafaring men"
There was another silence after that
She rose presently and began sweeping
the shore inc with a prismatic binocu-
lar which was slung across her should
ers. The two men exchanged glancss
behind her, the elder, one of inquiry,
his son. a reluctant negative. No. II
would clearly be insane to build any
hope on the incident.
At last she let the glass fall from
her ~listless hand and turned to them,
her face haggard with the torture OF
impossible hope. 81 wish my sky-man
would come"-she said forlornly. come
whiriing down out of the air, with news
Of them"
Your sky-man?" said Tom Fanshaw
q~uestioningly.
Here was something to talk about al
last. and the old gentleman seized the
chance 1t afforded.
Yes, we've another mystery" he
said. See whaI you can do toward
solving It." With that for an intro
d~uction, he plunged into a humorous
account OF Jeanne's report of her ad-
venture of the night before. of the man
who lad dropped down from the sky,
in the middle OF the night, and talked
to her awhile. and then flown away
again. She was really out on the ice
foe" he said. so much 1 concede, but
when l assure her that she dreamed
the rest she is sxeptical about my ex-
plantation"
But even you can't explain" she
PROTESTED, how 1 could dream about
an Esquimau throwing-stick, and ther
bring it back to the Yacht with ms
Wnel i was anu SHOW II
to you at the breakfast-tahle this
morning"
.In have to admit" SAID the OLD
gentleman, that my explanation
doesn't adequately account for that
The expression OF the younger man:
face was perplexed rather than in
c~redulous.
But my boy cried the elder man
think of it, He comes down out of the
sky and says he just dropped in from
Point Barrow; and that's five hundred
miles away. That's just as impossible
as 1t would be to materialize an Eskimo
throwing-stick out of a dream. every
bit"
mo, hardly that, said Tom judicial
ly. What was his ~aeroplane like ?
What was it made OF? Did you notice
it particularly?
YES" she said; Il helped him fold