Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-08-20
Continued From Yesterday,

fOonunueo ETom fesfeFu3y.1
| She went straight across the store
room to the rear wall of the hut, the
wall that backed squarely against the
sheer surface of the cliff. flashed on the
bulls-eye for a second, apparently to
make sure that she had chosen the right
point In the wall, then, letting go his
hand, she stopped and picked up stick
| of firewood which lay at her feet. With
this she struck pretty hard upon the
| planking. The sound which the blow
gave forth was as hollow as a drum.
Cayley started. "a cave! he ex-
claimed. "A cave herei-oh, see. It's
cold cellar they made by cutting a
hole in the ice that filed the fissure.
And why do you suppose they boarded
1t up?"
The girl laughed delightedly. Evi-
IDENTIFY she had not, as yet, developed
the whole of her discovery. She flashed
on the light again.
\ Look" she commanded.
In the centre of a little circle OF wall
which the bulrs-eye now illuminated
Cayley saw the barrel of q. rusty hinge.
"You see," she went on, "it's a door.
and they only nailed 1t up the other
day. There's a nailhead somewhere
here that's quite bright. I caught the
CLINT of it while ] was rummaging be-
| fore breakfast, and that was what
made me look
Cayley darted back into the living
room. returning almost instantly with
the broken-handled pick
In less than a minute, with a pro-
testing squeak, the rude door swung
open. and they saw before them just
what Cayley had predicted A>ratfer
high, but narrow cavity, the sides of
which were the naked rock Of the cliff,
but the floor and ceiling solid ice.
/ Despite the fact that the girls ex-
citement over the discovery of the cave
had for a moment carried Cayley along
with 1t, he was not greatly surprised
and not at all cast down when at the
end of five minutes of i1asty explora-
tion it was made evident to them that
the ample supply of stores which they
sought was not to be found here.
] Jeanne herself would not. perhaps.
! have entertained so high a hope had
she learned of the reference to the
other cave which Cayley found in the
| journal before she herself had chanced
upon the mouth of this one. AS 1t was,
his theory that the stores were to be
! found in cave vaguely situated along
| the glacier made little impression upon
1 her, she was so sure that they ha6
| them right here under their hands.
When their investigation made it
clear that whether he was right or not,
too O iv,1xv he he
/ terly disappointed. Cayley was aware
of that, even as they stood here, side
by side. with no light to see her face
by. She said nothing. or very little,
but he knew. nevertheless, that for just
this moment all the life and courage
had gone out of her; knew that the
slight figure there, so close beside him,
was dropping, trembling a little.
He laid a steady hand upon her
shoulder Almost instantly under his
touch she turned to him. caught with
both hands at the unbuttoned edges of
the rough wooden jacket he wore. and.
sobbing a little now and then, but
otherwise in silence. simply chung to
him.
He did not offer with his arms to
draw her any closer. to turn what was
mere instructive appeal to the pro-
lection of his strength and courage
into an embrace. He kept a hand on
each of her shoulders, more by way of
support than anything else, and waited
moment before he spoke.
after all,'' he said, at last, what
we've got here is just so much clear
gain. and 1t will be immensely valuable
to us, though it isn't what we expected
The fact that it is their superf1uity, the
things they hadn't any particular or
immediate use for, doesn't make what
we've found here any the less valuable
to us. That pile of bear skins there
will supply what is at this moment the
most vital of our wants. That big sack
appears to contain feathers, and
those walrus tusks will serve any
number of purposes - forks and
spoons, for one thing. AS to that
great lump of spermaceti, il will
keep us supplied with candles all
through the winter. I can't imagine
why they didn't use it themselves. ex-
cept on the theory that the longer they
lived here, the more they grew like
beasts; the more content with the
beasts habit of life, and the more in
e-t about taking the trouble to provide
themselves with such of the comforts
and decencies of life as they might
have had. So you see, we may fnd
among the things they had no use for.
the very ones that will help us most. =
He was talking more to avoid the
emotional tension of silence than any
thing else. The thing which was re-
storing the girl her courage and self
command was the grip of his Arm, live
hands, the mere physical feel of that
magnificent. magnetic, perfectly tuned
body of his.
Presently she Strengthened up and
drew away from him. You're very good
to me-" she snid. 'I'li-I'l try not to
do things like that very often
His only comment upon her apology
was to keep one hand for a moment
longer resting on her shoulder Then.
In a sufficiently matter fact fashion,
he spoke I'VE haven't exhausted the
secret of this treasure house yet. Shall
we go little fufther?"
The cutting in the ice did not go
very far back in the fissure, and they