Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-08-22
' Henry Kitchell Webster
CHAPTER XVI.

A S Roscoe fled along the beach on
IA the night Cayley descended upon
him through the fog. there was
no doubt in his mind that he had seen
the ghost of the man he had murdered
ana tne shadow of black avengfng
spirit lowering over his head.
When he found that his boat had
gone adrift and that his only means OF
getting back to the Am,ora had gone
with il, he dropped down upon fha
beach, crawled up into the lee of 4
great rock and had spent the night
there, his mind completely torpid with
fear
When the numbness of this terror
passeu away, as gradually it did, he
pent all his thoughts upon the Aurora
ailu upon the possibility. not quite in
conceivable. that his crew han s,,c-
ceeded in overpowering her people ana
were now In possession of the yacht.
He tried to persuade himself that this
was SO and that with the coming Of th-
dawn they would send a boat ashore
for him.
OF the strange figure he had seen
there in the hut, so like and VET 81
terribly unlike the victim of his rn,,r-
derous lust four years aro-of that ana
OF the more terrible apparition he had
seen coming down out of the sky. he
thought. or tried to think nothing at
all. 1t was only a nightmare. only =
delusion, natural enough when one con-
sidered all the circumstances.
When the fog lifted with the an
proach of dawn. he discovered whar
Philip and Jeanne did not become
aware of until several hours later. thar
the Aurora had drifted out to sea in
the gale. The clean line of the horizon
was broken by nothing but the plune-
ing masses of the ice. There was lust
one chance. he thought. that she might
still be comparatively near at hano.
Southward and eastward the horfzon
was unbroken, but the jutting mass of
the promontory to the west cut of his
view in that direction. 1t was possible
tnat the gale which had DESTROYED the
Hoe that formed the harbor. had also
broken up the pack ice at the other side
Of the peninsula. the side from which
Cayley. on the wing, had first ap-
preached this unknown land. The
yacht might be there. riding safely In
practically open water
He got up from the snow nest he had
made for himself in the lee of the rock.
and cautiously fiexed his stiffened mus
cles. with the idea of setting out at
once down the beach and around the
headland to learn whether this last
hope Of his was groundless Really.
in his heart. he had no hope at all,
but that fact made It easy to postpone
for little longer the putting OF this
delusion OF hope he had to the test
of reality
The excuse he made to himself was.
that he was ravenously hungry, and
that his most sensible course would be
to go up the glacier to the cave ana
cook himself breakfast before he did
anything else.
He was fully persuaded by that time
that what he had seen at the hut last
night during the storm had been MOTH
ing but hallucination None the less.
he knew that Il would be easier to
walk past that empty hut in full broad
day than in this tricky, misty. uncer-
tain light of dawn.
He carried out this plan at once, to
the point. that is, of going up the
glacier to the cave. building 4 fire
there and satisfying his sharp hunger
with an enormous meal But he had
not slept al di Anc HisnN belofe, ana
now the warmth and satisfaction OF
his appetite made his nerveless hand
release the bone he was gnawing ana
caused him to ron over beside the fire
and TO fall asleep.
He slept deeply for number af
hours. Then, arning himself wifh q
throwing-sti and number Of darts.
he STEPPED outside the cave. intent upon
his expedition to the other side or tho
peninsula, where there was a posxi-
bility of finding the yacht
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