The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-28

| Ice before coming ashore with uncft
Jerry and Mr. Scales And lucky, too
that didn't change back when we re-
turned TO the Aurora / left IL the sec
ond time with no other Idea than OF pull,
ing about for awhile in the c'nghy, ID
| have done that just the same II 1 had
dressed for dinner that night. as usual
| ly did"
Yes" he said "a skirt would have
been pretty serious matter TO people
In our situation"
SHOW me the rest of our house. she
commanded presently. This Is the only
room I've seem
plished by an L-shaped partition seven
feet or from the outer wall, around
two sides OF Il. II yielded two riny. GU
blcal bedrooms Chat was the purpose
which the wooden bunk In each OF them
| indfcated): and a third room or the same
width (about seven fceD. but running the
entire length of the side of the hut near
est the cliff. This room had evidently
served FOR stores and for a kitchen. since
| part Of the reconstructed fireplace pro-
jected into IT, 1t was in this last room
where the greater part Of what the
searchers from the Aurora had dismissed
! as rubbish" was accumulated
Cayley did as the girl commanded
and showed her every nook and cup
| board which the four walls of the hut
| contained. When they returned to the
dropped down on one OF the punks. with
little sigh of fatigue.
you've been disobeying orders" he
said. looking her over with a serious sort
OF smile. You've let yourself get too
tired You'll have to make MP for l,
by being exceptionally obedient now
AS he spoke. he sipok our rne sleep
ins-bag on the bunk, behind where she
was sitting.
You're to lie down on that" he said,
until l can get supper ready; and direct
ly after supper you're TO take this bag
into which ever of those bedrooms you
would like for yours. and really undress
and go To bed
She heard him through without inter
ruption. but at the end he found her
looking at him with a smile of such
mocking defiance. that he added well,
what's the matter with that plan?"
I'm to do all the resting. then, while
you do all the work, There is partner
ship for you. No. my friend, I'll stop
to have the sleeping bag Seriously
speaking. as a man win scientific
mind do you believe that | am any
tireder at this moment than you are?'
YES" he said II believe you are.
At any rate. you can make yourself COM
Portable while ] get supper. That's a
oneman job
She assented TO that after a little de-
mur. That he had rightly guessed the
degree of her fatigue was atIested by
the fact that when he re-entered the hut
after dressing the fowl that was 10 pro-
vide their evening meal, he found her
cuddled up upon the great sheepskin,
fast asleep.
1t was not until his rudimentary Gull
nary operations were about completed
that clancinG over to where she lay, he
found her regarding him with sleepy
smile.
There's no luxury in the world like
being as tired as that she said. sitting
up on the bunk and rubbing her drowsy
eyes. "Tve heen down. down. down
hundred fa,homs deep. l feel as II had
slept year
ITS ready now. think. When you've
finished, you'll be ready TO do 1t all over
again"
A loose plank from one OF the other
his sheath knife and flask comprised. as
before. the whole of their table furniture.
II thought OF something just as l was
dropping off TO sleep" she said. "a real
~ beautiful Idea. / tried to call out and
tell you. but l was too sleepy, / hope
oh, l know. Don't you suppose We
might find a clue TO where the stores
are hidden. in fathers journel or in the
maps?"
He laid down the drum-stick he had
been about to bite into and gazed al
her. partly in astonishment: partly in g
sort OF amused dismay that the Idea had
not occurred 10 him before, THAT sui
gestion,;' he said, 'is worth the whole
OF my days work OF course that's the
way to begin our search-the only way.
and tomorrow mornine,T
Tomorrow morning! I thought the
worst thing you could possibly say would
be after supper | wanted to let the
duck go and begin the search now" She
smiled at him. you'll compromise.
won't you. on directly after supper"
He assepted with n laugh. IF you can
keep awake. but the first time l catch
you noddins-"
"All right" she said. ''only let's hur-
ry with the duck Then, a little later.
1T can't be possible. can It. that we're
going to eat the whole OF it at one meal?
It's beginning to look that way"
There was one compensation to the
rudeness Of their fare and the eIiguity
or their equipment clearing up after
dinner was an operation Of extreme SIM
plicsty.
When II was completed. Philip heaped
more wood on the fire. nr- IN the glow
OF the cracking flames they spread out
the maps and began their search
do you know how ! came 10 think
of this?" she asked. as she seated herself
close beside him and bent her head over
the maps. II was thinking of this morn
Ing and Of the way you told NEON,
lOu ling AGO hnI caGDoG r