The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-16
CHAPTER XXIy.
SIGNALS.

There were "A good many. days after
that--not Days at all, really, but an in
tcrminablc period Of nght-which were
broken for Jeanne by no ray of hope
whatever She kept Philip and herself
alive from day tn day and This occupa-
tion left her hardly time enough TO think
whether there was anything 10 hope lor
Philip had tainted within a moment
after she had reached his side there on
the ice after the fight with Roscoe. lie
had recovered almost Immediately. and
had walked along with her. steadily
enough. as far as the ice cave; but mere
he collapsed In good earnest. fiis m
iurlcs would not have been dangerous
IL he could have been. put directly into
q hospital. or even il they could nave
commanded medical and surgical skill OF
tho simplest sort Situated as they were
however Il WAS no wonder that WITHIN
Il few hours he became very sick man.
I, was impossible, OF course. for him
10 get back into the nlot house. Jeanne
mounted thther and dismantlcd the place
as well as she could. throwing or carry
might DC of use. with the skins tRey
had accumulated during the winter she
contrivcd sort OF shelter. IN me nan nan,
burned storeroom behind what had been
the hut. There she took what care she
could OF her invalid
Much OF the time Philip was .delirious;
sometimes violently so, and yet she oiten
had to leave him. When she did so. II
was with no certainty at all that she
would lind him alive upon her return.
Occasionally during that intermlnable
time. when all reckoning OF tlnle ltseli
Was lost, she found herself recalling pass
ages from her fathers journal with an
infinitely better understanding ol them
and OF the man himself than she had
ever commanded before. She was living
his gospel now. In ali earnest--without
real hope, yet equally without despair
Living lifc one hour. one problem, ono
She had little leisure and less energy
for reflection. AS n rule, when there
was nothing thar needed Immediately 10
he done, she would drop down on the
beaiSkins beside Philip. and snatch A
morsel of sleep. But. even at that. she
sometimes wondered nj the change which
had come over her-at The things which
she could do quite simply and effortlessiy
now.
Sho had once asked Philip. hall PLAY
fully II lie could not treat her like kid
brother. and make man OF her. Well.
that was what hc was doing now. un-
consciously and inVountorily--just by
Wing there hclpess--jus, by depending
utterly upon her for every hour OF life
lie bad.
In one of his brief periods OF ucidity
Philip had told her what he mad done
during his brief and disa strous absence
from tho pilot -housc. How he had found
Rosooe's cave, and waited there for his
return.
mind back into. dcirlum shc had pressed
him for as exact a description he
could compass, OF the location of this
cave. During his next comparatively
raiiIet sleep she set.our 10 find II. Philips
description OF the place had not been
reassuiins. and lc- had done even fuller
Justice TO its horrors during the wander
jngs OF his delrum: and yet she had
faced the situation with hardly shud-
der
. She set out equipped with nint and
steel and candles. and found the place
Without difficulty. and had explored the
,.risly lair where the man monster had
lived. 10 tho utmost hardly conscious of
It's loathsomcncss--not conscious at all.
.sni.- fact, cAccpt She thought of the
effect the Sight OF such place would
onca, have had upon her.
4. Tiiis she was sure Of. II she and Philip
. ever came alive through this winter, ever
went back together .o sAe world Of mon.
'there' would be aIi entirely new JOY fort