Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-08

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mo more than that" HI assented.
She shivered a little and reached gu
for his arm, land you came down into
that. not knowing what you were to
f1nd-not knowing where the land was?
I didn't realize you had just risked
your life for me-"
Cayley had not meant that she should
know-not now, at least. In the back
of his mind there had been a puzzled
.wonderment why she had come ashors
alone; .whats curious chain of events
could possibly have left her and that
hairy monster, Roscoe, face to FACE
upon that wind-swept beach, but the
break in her unsteady voice and
the way she chung to his arm
for support, showed plainly enough
that the experience had beer an ex-
hausting one to her. She would not
have turned limp like this after a
mere momentary terror, such as the
sight Of Roscoe would cause her, how
ever sharp that terror had been.
"WiIl you let-aae go inside this hut"
he asked. land see if 1t is habitable?
If it is, you'd better go in and let me
make you as comfortable as / can. !
don't think you need have any fears
about the Walrus people. And worry
ing wouldn't do any good anyway.
There's nothing we car do but wait
for daylight. Nothing al happen any
where until then"
He had, very distinctly, in mind what
might happen her If the Walrus peo-
pie were repulsed from the yacht. I'm
less they we're all destroyed in the at
tack, they would undoubtedly make
trouble as soon as morning revealed
the fact that they had two hostages
in their hands. But he could fight them
of better from the doorway of the hut
than from anywhere else. And there
was no need of troubling the girl with
that consideration, not for the present.
at least.
It's all right in there" she said. 81
spent 1 don't know how many hours
there reading before you came. But
the candle has burned out"
The open door behind them gave ac-
ess into a tiny shed, ~protruding from
the corne of the hut and serving, evil
IDENTIFY. as a vestibule for it. The in
ner door, a heavier and stronger af-
fair, opening at r~ight-angles to it, gave
access to the interior of the hut.
Cayley switched on his bull's-eye and
cast a brief glance about the room.
There were two or three rude, fimsy-
looking doors which undoubtedly
opened into small. cabin-like bed
rooms; but the principal part of the
hut was taken up by the room in which
they found themselves.
V+ moe q dicroI-1ooH;-- ~laoo o-~,-h
fifteen feet square, perhaps, and not
more than half as high. In one corner
was a heap of smoke-blackened stones,
evidently the ruins Of a fireplace.
There were shelves and c~upboards
along the walls and a number of mar
row hunks.
Cayley set his little bull's-eye on a
shelf where they could make the most
of its thin pencil of light. He then
turned his attention to the door~and
after a little struggle succeeded in get
ting 1t shut, and. what was more, Sc
curely bolted, by means of a heavy
wooden bar which dropped into an
iron crotch. If they were attacked
with the first of the daylight, this place
would afford them security until the
people from the Aurora could come TO
their rescue. His revolver was a Colt.
forty-flve. and his belt was full of
cartridges. With hat weapon he re-
membered that he had once been con-
sidered the best shot in the army.
The girl, when he turned to look at
her. was seated on the edge of a bunk
at the other side of the hut. Her pal
Tor. the traces of tears he could see in
her eyes. the pathetic droop to her
lips. all emphasized the thing her voice
had told him already, namely. that
some emotional crisis. which she had
been through in those recent hours,
left her quite exhausted.
Without a word, he turned to his
bundle which he had deposited in a cor
ner of the room. and ffshed out from it
his ~sheepskin sleeping-bag. 1t was not
until he approached her, with it across