The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-16
CHAPTER XIV.
UNWINGED.

For a while she stayed Just where she
Was. her head Graded against his shoul-
more. pulled Off one of her heavy gaunt
lets and with her bare palm pressed the
tears ont OF her eyes
'tYou aren't strong enough yet TO he
used as the support for a really good
ery.' Her voice was shalSy and her
speech uneven. There were still some
little half suppressed sobs in il. But
she turned her face again toward The
wiS-was | ought TO he able TO read il
Tom taught II 10 me years ago: .Pcrhaps
perhaps it Is he who is signaling now
WAS there a searchlight on the .Au
rora9" Philip asked: 81 didn't notice when
saw her" He tried TO make the ques-
tion sound casual, but his own voice was
hardly steadier than hers.
ooh, yes" she said. ut was ono OF
the things VIC laughed at Uncle Jerry for
insisting upon, but he insisted Just the
sfa TSne ;. rs rs GA yeTg poWGlF,[Si nEnl; ii; 3,
silence, "is 1t not plain impossible. That
that VIC see over there? You know you
said and father said in his journal that
there was no possibility Of a relief in the
winter, Philip-PhIlp. isn't it madness
is 1t the ice madness?"
IF it is he told her, with laugh
taken us both the same way. But, really.
there is nothing Impossible about il. OF
course. the Aurora is not stcamlng along
toward us through the open water IL
pack, and she is moving with IL. II was
In the dead OF winter that the Walrus
came here and the Phoenix, too for that
matter and If the Aurora was besct be
fore she got. too far away and frozen UP
in the pack. the drift would gradually
MinG her back here very -slowly-only
three or four miles day lie felt her
droop little at that.
How FAR arc they away now, Phiip?"
she asked
II don't know he told bcr For q
Two weckss' she~.computed, thought
fully. Philip, do you think VIC can stand
it as long that? Won't We iust-just
80 mad with the agony OF waiting for
them?''
eve. shan't have long TO wait" he
assured her. Remember. they said they
were coming. Thcy didn't moan they
were coming with the drift They have
set out -nfoot--some OF thcm-over the
ice. And. I don't believe It's Fanshaw ~
who's sending those signals. He's prob
very rough and their progress would be
slow;-not so very much faster than that
"oh. II he had your Wings she wills
Caylcy got TO his feet. 1--WE must build
a FRO" he said, "out herc-thc biggest
fire NC can possibly conlrive. TO guide
And Ia give them a hope. too" she
said: they can hardly have any--not OF
finding MS alive, ! mean.''
Flow tDCN ever succeeded doing
they were both Ia ther at loss AFTER
ward TO understand, Neither Cavley nor
even Jeanne, thought OF his illness. That
was forgotten. except so far rs the fact
Itself .lrannc vas as weak AS he, aud
the source OF her weakness was tho same
as his. Both had a tendency 10 laugh
shakilY at nothing al all Both found il
hard Ia command their voices Both
found themselves wandering about blind
~. in spite of the intensity OF their de-
possible But at last they got il blazing
with the better part OF their precious
store OF fuel. Then AS best they could,
they settled down on their great bear
SKIN before tho fire, To wait. How long
they waited neither OF them knew. though
IL seemed an eternity. Sometimes they
tried TO talk, but their voices had n dis
conccrtlnC way of breaking
Eve must do something" philip said
nj last. must try TO got our old routine
going, somehow, II may he hours-days.
before they get here"
suppose. said Jeanne. ''wc could
cook a meal, even II We couldn't cat IL"
But before he could answer they heard
NO" he cried, the long vail i''i is over
Thank God they arc here Fire Ieapnci
fIre the revolver; Let them know they
arc In nne. His lips trcmbIed aud
tears glistened In his eyes.
II WAS lying under her hand. Tboro
were only three cartridges left. but She
fred them all into the air. Then. almost
them had died away, they heard a dim
nam in human voiCe--a voice that broke
SHARPLY as II the shout had ended I'm n
sob " "
ITS Tom" she said
Call out, It's your voice bo'u want
10 near Hut II was n moment before
she could command Il. She called his
nhine twice. and then n third finn v.i,b
oih"ront infection. for n long. leaning
1icker OF nrcliGht had revealed a little
Knot of hGures rounding one OF the rrcat
| gs that covered hn L.
one ngure. ittlc In advance OF the
others. dashed forward at n run. Jeanne
3prang to meet him.
For little while Caylcy stood bcsita
ting before the fire, just where Joanne
In her lmpulsivc rush toward their res,
cuers. had left him. then, slowly no
followed her.
The details of TINT last epcounlor vii,
Tom EanshaW on the Anrnra.r I.i.