Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-11

IT you want 10 commit suicide
said Captain Warner. you could do II
less painfully with a revolver. The
small boat would not live thirty Sec
onds after we put her over the side.
You know that, If you are not mad.
As for the Aurora herself, IL she had
not been built the way she is, she. would
have been crushed hours ago. And If
I were to lower the propeller and start
the engines, they would simply twist
the screw off of her before she had
gone a ships length, and leave US help
less in the event Of our ever finding
open water. We may never live to find
II, but there's a chance that we will.
There are more than thirty lives that
l am responsible for aboard this
yacht. and I mean to live up to that
responsibility. II we ever do find open
water, then I'll do whatever you say.
I will take you to Point Barrow and
the yacht can winter there. Then
when the pack is solid. II you can find
dogs and sledges. you can attempt the
journey across the ice. I don't believe
IT can be done. I don't believe there
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single member OF the party that set
out would live to reach that shore
That, however, is not my affair.
"Or, If you wish, we can take the
yacht back to San Francisco. refit her
and come back next summer I think
that with our knowledge of the cur
rents and where the open water is.
we might get back TO Fielding Bay by
the first Of July. Then we car find
whatever there is to find"
His voice faltered there. and
there were tears in the deep weather
beaten burrows of his cheeks. God
knows" he concluded, 'if there were
any possible chance ! would take II,
but there is none-none In the world,
not unless we could fly through the
air."
It was only an hour. since they had
ascertained, beyond the shadow OF a
doubt that Jeanne was not aboard the
Aurora. Until Tom had recovered con-
seriousness, the others had entertained
little doubt, that she was safely hid
den somewhere about the ship.
They had had a grim night OF it.
as the condition Of the Aurora's
decks when the .daFa first bright
ened them testified. hen the two
parties, which had IN reunited
by Cayley's efforts, Id reached
the shore on the previous evening, the
yacht was still invisible in the fog, and
though this they did not know-the
walrus people were already in posses
sion of 1t. Tom was lying unconscious
at the foot of the companionway. where
Roscoe had left him, and Jeanne. OBJ
livious to everything in h world ex-
cept the narrative she was reading in
her fathers journal, was in the aban-
doned hut on the shore.
That the A-rora's people were not
surprised by what amounted to an am
bush and beaten off on their return to
the ship had been due TO two causes,
one Of which they did not, sven yet,
suspect.
Cayley's warning, together with the
confession of the Portuguese, Miguel,
had caused them to steal alongside the
Aurora as silently as possible. Not a
word had been spoken by any of the
party. n the sound Of the rising wind
had drowned the creak OF their oars.
Half a dozen well-armed men had
stolen aboard over the bows to recon
hotter.
Making out the unfamiliar figures of
the Walrus people on deck, and know
ing that they had a fight on their
hands, they had worked their way, IN
observed. to a position amidships. Here.
under cover Of a brisk revolver fire.
they had made II possible for the rest