The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-28
.heSky Man
By Henry Ketchell Webster, Author with
Samuel Merwin) of Calumet K''

girl? Can't you treat me like alike
sort OF Kid brother. who isn't as strong
much. but still is willing and likely
and capable OF being made man or?
Can't you do that?"
mo" he said rather abruptly, II can
He turned away from her. 700. as he
! said IL and, as he went on speaking,
stood staring out OF the window. 'I'll
you remember what told you yesterday.
However. I'll try. I'll come as near to
IL as / can"
o,Jn The girls gpss color was as high as his his
steadily. perhaps you didn't know that
might be trying, too"
At that he wheeled round, her name
upon his lips. but she herself had turned
away by that time, and was bending
over the fire.
YOU'D better get ready for break
fast, she said, in tone whose matter
of-fact infection was n little exagger-
ated. ITS nearly ready
He took the biscuit tin. which had
served as their reservoir before his dis
covery OF the empty cask. filled 1t with
snow water and started ou, of the hut
with IT,
"we1l have to give up even the pre-
| tense OF keeping Clean" he commented,
unless we can find some soap. But
this makes a good eye-opener, any
way"
lis efficacy for that purpose was abun-
dantly testified to by his glowing color
re--entered-the hut few minutes later.
ITS the most beautiful day In the
world he told her, You ought TO go
out and have. breath of 1t yourself" !"
I've even indulged in an eye-opcner. AS
result, l am Altogether ready Tor break
fast. l hope you are"
The meal they sat down to was a sort
md amen Il i,..
one they had discussed the night before.
II appeared this morning in the form Of
q stew, but with one important addition,
Cayley tasted It, and then SET down the
with an exclamation OF surprise.
Salt! Wherever did you find it,'
1t was caked In the bottom OF ono
OF those tin pals. 1t looked sandy, but
IT tastes good. doesn't it?"
Certainly II did. in connection, at any
rate. with the SAVIOR which their hunger
lent to 1t. They did Jeanne's cooking full
justice. and somewhat more. and wasted
no time about it, either
When they had finisheo. and while
they still sat face TO face across the
board plank which had servcd tnem for
table. Cayley leaned forward a litt.c
and, smiling. asked a question.
What's the secret Jeanne? Your
eyes have been shining with mystery
ever since we sat down here"
trating. I didn't mean you even 10 dream
there was a mystery TO penetrate. But
well. It's time to tell you now any
She, too, leaned forward Il little and
shook her head at him with rantalizins
air of triumph.
"You didn't find the thing you were
looking Tor last night I'm fathers Jour
nal-the place where they hid the stores.
"Oh. but did," he cried. 'I only
waited to give you time to eat neces
sary and sensible breakfast before 1
spoke OF 1t. / had il on the tip Of my
tongue 10 suggest that we set about find
Ing Ii in good earnest, when l saw. In
your eyes, that you had a mystery OF
your own"
1t was evident from the look in those
eyes now that she was both surprised and
puzzled.
You, found it last night she ex-
claimed. Found IL In the journal, ano
then never went to look at IT,"
why. l found an unmistakable refer
ence TO il. and though the exact location
wasn't given. 1t was plain that three ol
enable us TO find It, But even II l had
not minded leaving you asleep here. un-
protected. in the hut. l doubt very mucn
If l could have found il at night. But
reveal 10 me?"
No" she said tell me more about
your discovery hrst. What was the ref
erence In the journal2'
the big leather-bound volume which was
proving Itself, with every hour, their
greatest treasure.
IT'S over here. toward the end" he
said, "in that last winter when the Wal
rus came-oh, here we are"
He seated himself on the bunk beside
her. and began to read;
March love have just spent an
arduous and fearful week upon the task
OF unloading the wreck of the whaler,
The weather has been severe-bltterly
cold (-l0 degrees Fahrenheit being the
mildesD and three-quarters OF Il gale
blowing most of the time. The mon are
Inclined to be rebelious ovor my driving
them out to work In such weather, but
! dared not wait for 1t 10 moderate.
when tho ice opens round the whaler,
she Will so down like a plummet: and If
that event should have happened before
VIC unloaded her OF her stores, our plight
would have been utterly desperate. or
stores In the ordinarily accepted sense,
she had but scanty supply, and those
of miscrably Inferior description. but
she contained half n cargo OF whale oil
In barrels. which now that they arc land
ed will settle the problem of fuel for us
as long as the last survivor OF our COM
pany can hope TO remain alive. And
fuel Is. after all. the only necessity which
or course we shall have to forego the
delights of bear steak when our ammu-
milton gives out, but walruses we can
kill with harpoons. And with these and
valley every summer, there is no dan
ger of actual starvation.
I'VE hoisted the barrels OF blubber out
of the whalers hold with a hand tackle,
slcdged them ashore along the foe and
the crown OF the glacier to Moselcy-s
cave, which seemed TO be the most con-
venieDt place 10 store them temporar
n.y."
Cayley laid down the book. and turned
to the girl.
That's the place; Tn perfectly sure"
he said. 1T evidently faces the glacier.
but IL must be very near the beach, for
they wouldn't have hauled those barrels
any further than necessary
SIS that all he says about it?'
ITS all he says directly. but here's
n reference just a little further along
which made me all the surcr was right,
Let's see.''
He opened the book again and ran his
eye down the page. "a hundredweight
or so OF spcrmaceti and two barrels OF
sperm oil we took directly to the hut
here. this is what l was looking for.
1.-The knowledge we get by exper-
ience often comes too late to be OF any |
great sarvice 10 us. L made some mis- |
takes In stripping the Phoenix, which l
should not repeat now. For instance, |
her pilot house, with ininite !
labor. up 10 the clfThead for observ- |
atory, II Is thoroughly Impraotlcable
I 7 at,