Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-06


sense of self-preservation would an
prove Of.
But, thanks as much to luck az 70
skin. he presently found himself upon
his feet uninjured. He as once set out.
making what haste he could. across
the ice toward where he had last seen
girl. shouting up the gale to her
at h same time, to know IL size were
safe. He heard no answer. but pres-
emily made her out, dimly, only a mace
or two away. His first act then. even
before speaking, was to take out his
pocket electric bull's-eye and turn If
full upon her.
It's just to make sure you're not
hnrt-that ] really got down here In
time" he apologized. II wish 1 might
have saved you the terror, but il
wasn't until you cried out that I
knew
I'm not hurt, she assured him. ssTm
a little dazed. that's all. No. not with
fright, with wonder. hardly had time
TO be frightened. but l thought YOU'D
gone this morning. that you had
abandoned us just as you said YOU
would. and yet, when l cried out Just
now for help it was you that / called
to and then you came. out Of
the sky, just as | was sure You would
For l was certain, with the same GER
fainty one has in dreams. Nov. that
It's over, / find myself wondering again
II you are real I'm not hurt at all.v
Before he could find anything TO say
IN answer they heard another shot.
muftied in the fog. from the direction
OF the Aurora, and IN prompt reply 10
it another volley.
wasn't there firing befereev she
asked Can anyone be attacking the
yacht? There is no M there but Tom.
you know. and he's disabled. Can't
we-can't l. get out there any way
The boat | came ashore in is right
here"
Without making her any answer, he
carried the unwieldy bundle his wings
made into the hut and left it there.
b returned to her and offered her
his hand.
Wen go down and look for your
boat" he said.
Along the waters edge they searched.
aided by the little bean from his bulls
eye. h sound of intermittent firing
from the yacht urging haste all the
while, but 1t did not take long to force
the conviction upon them that the boat
was gone. Blown sdrift. most likely,
was Cayley's explanation.
He felt her trembling. Whether with
odd or dread, he did not know. but he
took her arm and steadied her with
the pressure OF his wi
Come back to the hut" he said.
The situation isn't as bad as you
think TH fall .-.,a rubo- - ~.t -.
shelter where we can talk"
She turned o~bediently, and breasted
the Icy slope with him. Neither spoke
again until they were safe in the lee OF
the hut. Then he said:
Il dom think Fanshaw Ii alone
there on the yacht. The relief party
and h first party from the Aurora got
together some time this afternoon and
started back toward the shore. They
should be aboard h yacht by now.
though when the fog fell it put an end
TO my activities. The Walrus people
have undoubtedly attacked them, but
they shouldn't a any trouble n
beating them OF. They outnumber
them and they r better armed; in
fact, so far as I know, the Walrus peo-
pie aren't armed at all. They knew
your people l mean-that the yacht
was likely to be attacked l told them
SO myself. and then their pretended
guide confessed"
How did you know about the Wal
rUs?" she. asked curiously.
"The Portuguese was one of them; he
had guided your first party down into
a little valley of perpetual fog, under
orders to abandon them there. When
he saw me sailing about overhead
through the fog, o know-he broke
Gown and confessed-and then-well,
he made a clean breast OF it. He knew
nothing of the details of his leaders
plans, but the mere fact that he had
been delegated to guide the party into
a place from which 1t was to be ex-
pected they could never get out. was
conclusive as to his intentions at least
He had spoken rather d-isconnectedly.
his sentences punctuated by the sounds
Of firing from the yacht. By the time
he finished they were almost continue
Gus.
why does 1t sound so much fainter
than it did ?' she asked. TITS not near
ly so loud as that first volley we heard
TITS a trick of the fog, very likely
he said. Fog is a frightfully treach-
erous thing. 1t deceives mems ears as
well as their eyes. There's no judging
distance through 1t. When you cried
out Just now / couldn't tell whether
you were fifty feet below me or sna foes
I was up above it. you see. and I hadn't
any way of telling how deep it was.
There, Do You hear?r he went on.
1.-THE firing has stopped altogether.
Your people are almost certainly SAFE
But the girls mind had not followed
him to the new subject. You were n
there in clear air?" she asked. "ana
the fog was all below you2"
Like a bluish-gray blanket he ex-
planned. slit By the stars. n nothing
else. It was pouring along like the
greatest river you ever saw. the sur
face OF It eddying off In little pisps.
The upper air Is comparatively still."
"And you couldn't see through Il At
all2" she Observation-Disclosures see the
land any more than you could see the
bottom OF the ocean through The
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