Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-16

take a fortnight. and we must have
some temporary security first. In the
meantime there Is no telling what sort
Of weather we will have. It's rather
late for these beautiful. mild days. I
fancy. no, the first thing to do Is to
rebuild this fireplace and bring in d lot
of drift wood all those birds that
were killed last night by flying against
the cliff. When we have made this
hut habitable against a spell OF forty
below zero weather. such as we're like
" TO have at any time, and have &c
cumulated stores of fuel and food for
a few days. then wen begin our search
And If you'll forego the holiday I prom
ised you, 1 think I had better get TO
work at once"
She colored suddenly, and spoke with
a blunt d~ecisiveness that took him
rather aback, though it pleased him
at the same time. Please don't talk
that way nor take that attitude. The
convention that a woman can't be asked
to do anything for herself is all right
at a ball, but not here. I want you
to give me credit for being an adult
human person, fairly strong, and cap
able of work. We're two castaways
here. I am at least. and you're pre-
tending you are-no, I'll take that back.
You are just as much as 1 am. That's
the hypothesis we're working on. And
you're captain because you know the
most. You're TO tell me what to DO,
and I'll obey orders. But I expect you
to work me just as hard as you work
yourself"
You're quite right" he asssnted.
holding out his hand. That's agreed
upon. 1 think I can rebuild this fire.
place by myself. VIII you go and begin
carrying IN fire wood, and as many Of
those ducks and geese and looms as
you can find there along the talus?"
She nodded, and turned to leave the
hut. Take the revolver with you"
he called after her.
At that she halted abruptly in the
doorway. why should 1 have it any
more than you?" Then. answering his
smile with one of her own, she added,
II suppose a w-ell-trained crew doesn't
demand reasons for the captains or
ders-only-'
There's q perfectly good reason. I'm
working in the shelter. and you in the
open. Besides that, I'm stronger and
1 have my sheath knife. If I were at
tackled by anything, I could give a bet
ter acSount Of myself than you could.
You'd better AXE belt and holster and
all. and buckle 1t right around your
waist"
It was late In the afternoon before
Philip completed his task. Rebuilding
the fireplace was q more complicated
Job than he had imagined It would
be. Buried beneath the stones he had
found an iron oven and a lre-box, be-
sides a badly battered iron hood and
an iron pipe, about three inches in
diameter. The stones were evidently
to be built up into a table about four
feet long. and. roughly, half as high
and broad. ineasing both the over and
the fre-box. The hre-boX was open al
the top, and directly above it must
hang the hood, much like that oveI
a blacksmith's forge. only in this case,
Of course, it was intended to raalate
as much heat as possible, instead Of
as little. All the iron had been badly
bent and otherwise damaged in the
process Of tearing it down, and it had
cost him a long. laborious hour, OF
more, pounding it between u%nhandily
shaped stones, to get II into condition
to be put up again.
Meanwhile. Jeanne had spent tbs
hours bringing in wood and ~accumulat'
ing, also, a great ~feathered heap of tbs
victims Of last nights fog. A
first she had not been able tr
pick up one Of them without the
thought TIA Philip himself might have
been lying here this morning. some
where along the talus, at the foot Of
the cliff. just as these birds were.
But the steady routine OF the Job ne
had assigned her was an efhcacious
remedy against undesirable thoughts
Those TWO heaps outside the hut must
grow-must be big enough when he
completed that Job Of his indoors to
bring. If possible, an exclamation OF
surprise and pleasure from him.
Incidentally she kept their morning