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

| bered your saying that fathers Journal
would be our Bible. II came to me.
suddenly, that there was more to be
learned in II than merely faith and cour-
age. 1t occurred to me that those long
pages OF scientific observations might tell
US just the things that we would need
10 know to save our lives
Il believe" said Cayley THAT the
Journal Will be worth more than the maps
IN uhis search OF ours tonight Anyway
while you work one l can work inc 9TH
She nodded picked up the journal ana
crossed over with II TO another OF the
ounks There she seated herself tucked
ner ieet UP comfortably under her tailor
palm began TO, read, The light COM
ing from behind her made, to Cayley's
vision, misty halo OF her hair. and
played softly over the check and the nm
gers that were half embedded in H.
The sight OF her made II hard for him
TO SLICK to his maps. But presently no
looked up with sudden question. DO
you happen to find anything" he pe-
gan. and then broke off shortly.
FROM her race, lf-shaded az it was.
ne could see that what she had been
reading just then was no mere descrip-
ton OIL this land upon which they had
been cast away, but something far more
personal to the father she had lost here
mere something perfectly terrify-
ing, she said. about futhers descrip-
ton OF this man Roscoe over here near
.ne end before the sun came back To
.hem. he tells OF going out for a walk
oS himseil and OF discovering that Kos-
tSe ,p was stalking him. in the hope. nc
thought OF discovering. In advance OF
the others: where the gold ledge was In
ne twilight. father says. he looked, IL
ms white bear-sklns. perfectly enormous
ana incredible. And Phillip"
She closed the book holding IL tight in
ootn hands. and leaning forward a litt~
as she went on. "and Philip, his descrlr-
non q so9ndsIoh; l suppose us silly. but
,e,aa, ~ SOUNDS ilke the thing l thought I saw
To-Day when l was alone there on the
oeach, before you came flying oown out
OF the sky. II didn't look like a bear.
! wouldn't have been so dreadful If il
It's possible" he said gravely. at
may nave been he whom I frightened of
when came down last night Certainly
yrere snsr WA was somebody. so and that somebody
supposed he had gone out to Join in the
attack on the yacht. But It's very strange
II there Is any one, that we could have
passed whole day without encounterlng
The girl shivered then, with shake
OF her mead as II dismissing the uncanny
thought from her mind, said YOU
@ sa,'gu 10 ask me about something else.
IL TOOK him a moment to collect his
thoughts. i"'
on, yes There's something marked
mere on this map which I took at first
no" that II was marked before they built
IL. wondered II. in the carry pages or
me journal, there was a description of
any natural formation about here like
She made as If to open the book. then
suddenly. changed her intention and held
IL out to him. instead. o.
~ wasnf @ayent rso,i oGen playing fair" she said
! was Just reading stories and dreaming
oyer them It's his handwriting, / think,
tnat uaaIi makes Il SO hard to be good It's
VEL. Mem. almost Ike hearing his voice.
ana give me something 10 do-with my
handS, l mean?-oh. / know I'm tired,
but that doesn't natter
Cayieys first impulse was to refuse
but II needed only one thourhtfnI Ioolt In.
10 her face to convince him that fhe
kindest, as we'll as the wisest thin. was
S o9 40 as she asked, An uncanny horror
or the monstrous Roscoe and the annoI
ling idea that he, and perhaps Others ar
MS gang, might be sharing the solitude
or this frozen coast with them, was plain
~ 10 be read In her eyes. and her own
prescription for dspelline II was nroh.
ably the best that could be thought or
WIN a nod OF assent, he rose and wenf
INTO the store room. returning the neyr
moment oI with an armful of heavy rope
In the old days OF wooden ships" he
said. when they wanted to discipline a
sailor. they set him to picking oakum
Next TO pounding rust or the anchor,
II we uulicst 1oD IN the world. But We
need some for calklng up the cracks In
our walls; Do You mind''.
Mind; she echoed. ''Dld you think
wanted to do embroidery"
he showed her how the work was 70
he done, and In five minutes she was bus
ny engaded at IT.. She had moved 10 an
other bunk little farther from the fire
ana tni,,o ne. , With innocent artitice. had CON
should be spread out under her.
Meanwhile he plunged into systenat.
ic search. through journal and maps. for
Ihe ming that was TO spell either life or
death for them. 'e W
AZ the end OF an hour he looked I'D
suddenly an exclamation Of triumph on
ms lips But at sight of her. II died ouI
In smile. She had slipped down on
the sleeping bag, her. head Graded in tn,
CROOK or one arm, And she was fasr
asleep,
CHAPTER XIV.