The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-21


he had intended to make the merest
cat-nap on one of the hunks. and with
difficulty rubbed his eyes open. the
SAVIOUR of something good to eat was
already in his nostrils.
Jeanne, with her back TO him. was
bending over the fire, busy with the
breakfast. She heard him stirring. and
looked around.
"Oh, I'm sorry" sne said. Il didn't
mean to bang that pan down that way
/ meant you to go on sleeping Tor
hours and hours
Looking fairly at him as he sat there
on the bunk, she saw his hands clutch
tightly over the edge OF IT. saw the
color go ebbing out of his face and
then come surging back again. She
had seen him do that once before.
'Why~-whats the matter. Philip
she asked.
TITS just the wonder of you" he said
slowly 'of waking up to find you here,
busy about this home of ours--as if-as
II IL were all true. I've been very
deep asleep"
You deserved to be. You must have
worked nearly all night to accomplish
all you have
Her gesture included the feathered
skins of IA dozen or more geese and
elders, which hung in a row from
line stretched behind the fireplace, as
well as an extremely heterogeneous
collection OF articles upon the shelves
which he had rescue from the rubbish
heap in the store room. There was
nothing in that rather pathetic collec-
ton which could have been of any
value to persons decentiT equipped for
the experience of an Arctic winter
which lay before them. The fact that
they had value now spoke Volumes
upon the extremity of their plight.
Some battered tin cans. three or four
Wide fnoutlled bottles. harpoon With
a badly frayed line attached to it, an
ak head. a broken handled pick COM
prised the greater part oil it. Per-
haps the most valuable object he had
found was a broad biaded sail makers
needle, But from the look Jeanne gave
them as she glanced along the shelf. II
WAS plain that every object there was
ii potential treasure.
''Bat really" she went on, after an
expressive little silence, really and
truly | have serious complaint To
make against You. You didn't play fair
when Won went on working. working
all those hours. t. let me lie asleep,
lie rose from the hunk with "a laugh
You'd have had ms roaring at you
or shaking you up every time caught
you nadding. suppose. believing at
you, like a SEA captain to look alive
with that oukum..'
But the girl declined 10 be amused
YES" SHE SAID, saberls enough, that's
exactly what would have had sou
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