The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-04
CONTINUED from, yest4rs.ay.o

(Continued from tesf@-IaE.j
To Cayley, where he lay, suspended
In mid-sky. the moonlight cleaning
upon the sensitive fabric Of his planes.
as ii CLEANS upon the faint ripples
on mill pond in the dead oi some
June night to cayieN this white,
sleeping, frozen world look ~ Very tar
-.-S,s. He was awning fer the iirst
sime since that eternity ago when he
had descended upon the beach beside
Jeanne to warn her Of the approach
u the bear.
How tong ago that was. Ny the
measure Ut hours and days and weeks,
he did not know, He had no data
Tor al estimate that would be better
than a geess. He remembered now
desperately they had worked that
night. saving what they could from
the burning hut and carrying it back
into the cave: remembered with what
la Dor he and Jeanne had climbed the
ley chimneyrsta the only shelter that
now remained to them. the little pilot
house observatory upon the clitf-head;
remembered the unremitttng labor OF
uueounted hours wnsl. thcy adjusted
their way OF life to the conditions i'm
posed by the calamitous loss of the
hut.
Hat after that there were iRpses OF
time which memory did not cover.
fury OF the Arctic winter mad been
raging over thera, Without cessation.
They had been sheltered from II down
III the heart OF the great drift Of SNOW
which the storm had leaped about
,l1ena. But even liz this security the
shonk nf those successive paroNysrns
of natures titanic rage reached down
and benuribed them, body and soul
X In seine duh, automatic fashion
. they had contriNed to keep alive, 10
secure 81 little air TO breathe, TO eat
what would serve IN hold or starVa-
ton. aud 10 Keep from freezing Buf
the reckoning 1T TIE days had lost
itself Ia tue anhroken night of mid
winter. Even tho months they had
spent in the HIT, thase days Of varied.
cheerful occupation. the peril with
which iso.coe had threatened them.
.and the nnaseeping vigilance they had
+ interposed against hirr1-~ail OF that
had come 10 seem remote and In
credible IL them.
"A for the world of men. OF cities
ana civilization. of tHsv streets and
lights and fhe sounds Of human
activity. that Was 10 them almost as
ii IL had never been.
y.ut at last the rage of the storm
had spen, Itself and had become still,
The bitterness Of the Geld relaxed and
became f4isdwr Tayley had felt flar
1,ao,i xftrrt,7ey II, ,3s v4sna again tnQ
,avrer ~ ,assxe,,ttYa Thought ana me
..r,f,,,an "a i've eor,fnp .1ne. more
49, h4s ,,assess4,n re ~ a GONE "a
,Tcrt, faaali, and ,grswsAsly a, tirst hut
. win cone,antl., lnrreas:jnc energy and
x,r.nstn a, the taek ~ e,pnfng t3n.
nrr.. ,nere he tunne, through tha
4 ar,yt wb4rh tna great storm had
chahad
xyh.r ~ rw5 hy.tan .hronrh the
a,,,er crt1s, ~ tIte ,srsff. and the white
radiance IN IN. MID ~ftuy moon sh0ne
INTO the HACK tunnel where he had
been WORKING. he stood for a moment
,ira,vtny ,l.an breaths ana gazing over
the scene which lax beneath his eyes.
He hastenea hack into tnt. little pilot
ho,,se
Jeanne was d,,zlng sapen heap OF
bearskins Fla reused her with some
.i,tslenft1. really waking IN had been
+ n hard matter lately. almost as hard
AZ really, getting or To- sheen she was
s,i,i jrowsv when he led her along
the ,urne1 To the cliff head
aHreathe deep" h. told her We
ware hair ,,4.fs5y,.ssf in There This air