Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-08-29

frozen sea all lay at peace beneath it.
as II asleep or dead.
To Cayley. where he lay, suspended
in mtd-sly, the moonlight cleaning
upon the sensitive fabric OF his plana8
as It CLEANS upon the faint r1pples on
q mill pond In the dead Of some June
night-to Cayley this white, sleeping.
frozen world looked very far away. He
was a-wing for the first time since that
eternity ago when he had descended J
upon the beach beside Jeaxina to warn
her Of the approach Of the bear.
How long ago that was, By the
measure OF hours and days and weeks.
he did not know. He had no data tor
an estimate that would be beft1r than
guess. He remembered how des-
perately they had worked that night.
saving what they could from the burn
ing hut and carrying It back into the
cave; remembered with what labor Ne
and Jeanne had climbed the Ice Chin
ney to the only shelter that now Ee-g
mained to them. the little pilot-house
observatory upon the clfff- head; re-
membered the unremftttng labor Of un-
counted hours while they adjusted
their way Of life to the conditions Inn
posed by the calamitous loss Of the
hut
But after that there were lapses OF
time which memory did not cover.
During that time he knew the utmost
fury Of the Arctic winter had been
raging over them, without cessation.
They had been sheltered from It dewn
in the heart of the great drift Of snow
which the storm had heaped about
them. But, even in this security the
shock of those successive paruxysms
Of natures titanic rage reached down
and benumbed them. body and soul.
In some dull. automatic sashion thar
had contrived to keep alive to secure
little air to breathe, to eat what would
serve TO hold of starvation, and 70
keep from freezing. But the reckoning
Of the days had lost itself in the un-
broken night Of midwinter. Even the
months they had spent in the hut.
those days of varied. cheerful occupa-
ton, the peril with which Roscoe had
threatened them. and the unsleeping
vigilance they had interposed against
him-aI of that had come to seem re-
mote and incredible to them.
As for the world of men, of cities
and civilization. Of busy streets and
tivity, that was to them almost as Il
1t had never been.
But at last the rage of the storm had
spent itself and had become still. The
bitterness of the cold relaxed and ba-'
came milder. Cayley had felt the blood
stirring in his veins again, the power
of consecutive thought and the amhiz,
ton to live, coming once more into his
possession. He had gone to work. fee
bly, and drowisly at first. but with con-
stantly increasing energy and strength,
at the task of opening up once more.
the tunnel through the drift which the
great storm had choked.
When he had broken through the
outer crust of the drift. and the white
radiance Of the midday moon shone
into the black tunnel where he had been
working, he stood for a moment draw
ing deep breaths and gazing over the
scene which lay beneath his eyes. He
hastened back into the little pilot
house.
Jeanne was doing upon a heap Of
bear-slxins. He reused her with some
difficulty; really waking up had been
hard matter lately. almost as hard
as really getting off to sleep She was
stin drowsy when he led her along the
tunnel to the cliff-head-
Breathe Deep" he told her. We
were half poisoned in there. This air
viii bring you back to life again, Il
and the moonlight"
He had been supporting her with his
arm about her waist. but now. as she
| held herself a little straighter and he
could feel her lungs expanding with the
-
arm and let her stand alone Even
the white moonlight revealed the color
that was coming back into her cheeks.
For while she did not speak at ali;
then. as If replying to a comment Of
his, she said;
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