The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-22

tAs0A&&sAANG nun AErAEAhtAASs -
she paled a little. for she had beer
Z quick to perceive that something b,
3 had been about TO tell would not m
y told new or must be told differently
N Bat she waited until his father. to-
kether with the Two sailors, had sot
TIE disabled man UP onto the deck aud
nAfeiy installed in All easy chair. Their
ErAyeiy. but steadily. Just Ss what
& Tom What clue bad iheN found lust
M sou had 10 come away.
cit s2aS very wonderful. he said
Z Nquite inexplicablr just as we were
4 rbous breaking camp this morning, we
saw a man coming toward ass across
h the ice. We thought at first that i;
was Hunter, and We were mighty glad
L 10 see hina. because he had sfraved
I m soruewhers and hadn't cainped with
4 Ms But We soon SAW il wasn't he
H wasn't 8 mar anything like him He
4 Nas . queer sioHcning, shutting Great
Il Gre, dressed 81 skins. an8 he came up
\ IN u heSstatitas MAY. SIS il ~ was afraid
Frf pa. He c9aldn's talk English, nor
4 azla6erxfaEzi x. apparently. He locked
10 rne like y Portuguese. and tried
4 him sr STsaRtsA--good Filipino span
isf-cu THE chance. thought It start
bed him a si,tle, ard ~ pric5Sed up hts
fars al H. b8t he couldn't understand
that either, He just kept reckoning
md repeating two words"
What words. Tenn out with IT,
Tg9is from the old gentleman who had
controlled his patience with difficulty
4 wing the little silence. Eut the
TSnnger man hesitated and looked into
the girls face nuteiy. question
gngsy. before he spoke.
.@Ttae words he said. seemed To
be your fathers usme-'Captatn Field
Ing: ii sounded like that.
She went quite white. afd recled a
little Then oiutcsed at the Shrouds
for support. The old gentleman was
at her side Ia an instant. his strong,
steadying arm across her shoulders
Torn himself half rose from his chair.
only 10 drop back into il again with
xrimace Of pain and "A little dew Of
perspiration OH his forehead. He look
ed rather white himself under the tan.
n suppose"--the girl said almost
soicelessly II suppose / mustn't
ssiare-even let myself begin to hope
yet. must /. not~-yet2''
- don't know" said Tom. THE
fellow seemed half crazed; seemed.
Almost. to have lost the power of speech
krom long disuse of 1t. But ho meant
10 take us some W hers. that was clear
enough from his gestures. II / could
only have seen you before ! began to
blart the thing out I'd have spared
fon the suspense until there was some
thing to tell. I'm sorry, Jeanne"
u His contrition seemed to serve as a
stronger stinalant than his fathers
sraresses. She went quickly over 10
him and took one of his hands. Don't
VERY, Tom. dear she said. Even
III the worst, they'f find something,
ssaa that's really all We hoped for when
he started
She seated herself on the arm of his
chair, steaayine herself with one hand
upon his shoulder There WAS no rela-
tionship of blood between these two,
\ but they were like brother and sister.
Tor all that
sits queer. she said, at the end Of
rather long silence. I'm sure there
Eas no Portuguese In fathers cxpedi-
4 lion. Except for two or three Swedes
tnd Norwegiana. they were all Ameri-
4 rams. | know the name Of every man
kho sailed in hts ship
.'fIe might have taken some ono on
tt St Micbaels.' suggested the elder
Fanshaw
''Yes,' she said little obviously,
y tsnly he never thought much of south
4 krn Europeans as sea faring men"
There was another silence after
that. She rose presently and began
sweeping the shore line with pris-
4 paatic hinoeular which was slung across
her shoulders. The two men exchang
{ I'd gianees behind her; the elder, one
4 of inquiry, his son. "a reluctant mega
tive. No, IL would clearly be insane
Y 70 build any hope on the incident.
At last she let the glass fall from her
Il 1istiess hand and turned to them, her
face haggaTd with the torture of i'm l.
possible hope. Il wish my sky-man
would come she said forlornly. come
whiriing down out of the air with tina
news Of them
ssYour sky man" said Tom Fam
\ shaw, qnestioningly,
Here was something 10 talk about
y nj last, and the old gentleman seized
the chance it afforded
Yes we've another mystery." he
said. "See what you can do toward
solving it, With that for an intro
siurtion, he plunged into a humorous
Rccount of Jeanne's report OF her ad -
4 venture Of the night before OF the man
4 who had dropped down from the sky
X IN the middle Of the night. aud talked
y 10 her awhile. and then flown away
again. ''She was really out on the ice
foe be said; so much coucede; hut
when ! assure her that she dreamed
the rest. she is skepticaI about my
explanation
But even vol can't explain" she
I protested. bow ! could dream about
an Eskimo throwing stick aud then
bring II back TO the yacht with mo
when ] was wide awake and show 1t