Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-22

much as a grain of hope of anything
better
Cayley could not contradict her. and
he saw there was little need Of trying
to do SO. She had spoken simply, ana
very gravely, but it was evident the
years had taken the sting out of her
| grief.
He told you where he wasp he
asked.
"oh, quite exactly. she told nim:
The gave US latitude and longitude. m
mapped the coast line. So you were
wrong. you see, in what you said about
photographers. And he gave us the
route by which, with reasonable for
tune. we might D open water. W.
had good fortune and we got here safe
ly, but. of course. We were too late.
The hut on the shore there is deserted.
We have seen no signs Of lie at all.
The men have gone ashore to search.
and there is TO be a gun-fire if they 1nl
anyone alive But they have been on
| all day and there has been no soana.
| You viii understand. l think, though.
why / did not want TO sleep tonight in
my cabin in the ~yacht-why the ice am
the dome of stars seemed better
Yes" he said, 81 understand Pres
J entity. after a moments musing. hi
added, What seems strange to Ene. III
comprehensive altogether. Is. that men
like you father. and so many others.
should risk and lose their lives trying
to reach the pole"
You can't understand that" she
questioned surprised. you. a man with
wings?"
Il suppose it's because Of the wings
he answered her. Il slept there once.
early this summer-slept. and rests j.
and ate a meal
There" she echoed incredulously.
Where do you mean?"
the pole, or within a half de-
gree of It'll won't guarantee my in
struments. nor my hit-and-miss obser-
vations any more accurately than that
and it seemed a o place to risk
ones life trying to reach. Just the ice
pack-the eternal ice-pack; nothing bur
that" Then his eyes lighted a little.
but / should like to go there some
time, in the winter-should like to fly
straight ahead, for hours and hours,
through the long dark, until l could see
the North Star squarely above my
head in the zenith, the centre of all the
universe. That would be a sight worth
having, I should think. Some day. per
haps. 1 shall try for it. And then one
could go straight on across-a week or
ten days would do it all-from Daw-
son City, say, to St. Petersburg"
Dawson City to St. Petersburg she
repeated; ''only a creature of wings
could put those two cities into the SAINT
sentence, even in imagination. And
even with you it must be imaginary.
You couldn't do it, really-could your
YES he said; 81 could do it"
You're t~ireless then?'' she asked
"You could go on flying, flying. with
out rest, for a week."
II don't fly he told her, 'or hardly
at all. The birds don't fly. not these
great sea birds that live on the wing.
They sail: SO do L"
But, then, don't you have to go
with the wind?"
You've sailed a boat. haven't you?"
he asked by way of answer. You put
up a sail to catch h breeze. n then
you make it force your boat right up
into it: make your boat go against the
wind. by the force of the wind itself
That was regarded as a miracle once
when men first did it."
"Of course she admitted, but you
do that by lacking"
That's the way l do it-by lacking,
and the force of gravity is my keel"
And in a calm?'' she asked.
"It's never really calm up there. it's
always alive. restless. always flowing
this way and that, sometimes in great
placid, even rivers. with banks as
clearly marked, almost. as the banks Of
a stream of water. And then again, in
storms"