The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-02
By Henry Ketchell Webster, Au-
thor with Samuel Merwin) of
Calumet K.''

| Inert. but not rigid; and MS he drew her
| UP IN his arms and pressed his head down
| against her breast. he could hear very
faintly and slowly, the beating OF her
heart
He picked her up in his arms and car
| ried her Into the pilot house. The air
| here was still warmer than that out OF
| doors, but ii was no longer exhausted
| pnd poisonous.
| hght tho lamp, TO throw off his stiff
| leather Jacket and to get a little brandy
out OF the kcs This he mixed with a
| llttlc water and. with the aid OF small
ivory spoon. he succeeded in getting n
little OF II between her lips
., He took off her heavy seal coat. and
and. as well as, he could. looscned the
| other clothing about hcr waist. Last of
all. he gathered her UP in his arms again
wrapped the great sheep skin bag about
them both and. with the brandy and wa
ter within arms reach, settled down to
attempt To get some OF the warmth and
| vitality OF his own body into hers.
| She was not fully unconscious now, for
| the next time he offered her brandy she
swallowed 1t. Her eyelids were nutterlng
| n little, too. and presently she sighed.
He was thrilling all over with q tre-
mcndous sense OF power He felt he
could have brought her back from the
yS,y dead His la arteries seemed S,dod to be
| Her lips were moving now. and he bent
close 10 catch the whisper that barely
succeeded in passing them vs.
so much--easier to go--this way"
His only, reply to that was TO hold
her a little closer
She did not resist when he held the
drink to her lips again, but, after she
! had taken two or three sips Of 1t, she
said:
II shan't need any more. I'm getting
quite beautifully warm again"
He knew IT was true. She no longer
felt lifeless in his arms. though she still
lay there quite relaxed. He knew he
could
yet he held her fast
II thought you were dead when I saw
at last. not very steadily, "ir you had
been, it would have been my own do
ing
She contradicted him with sharp neg
You left me we'll enough wrapped up
to have resisted the cold for any length
OF time. Besides. Il Id wanted to 1
could have come back in here. But-but,
Philip Oh. il seems a dreadful thing
TO confess. now you are here with me-
didn't want to. just lay down on
and-and that would be the end-such
an easy endi
She felt him shudder all over as she
said it. and she clasped his shoulders
and held them tight in desire 10 reas-
sure and comfort him.
Did You mean TO do that-was that
why you asked me TO fly away for
while?"
NO! No 1t was something I saw
while you were gone. something that
terrified me, Philip, do YOU remember
how many OF the people OF the Phoenix
died OF what father called the ice. mad
ness?"
He nodded gravely
Well. what | saw made me think that
YVES watching the moon go down. and
gradually Il spread ont into three, quite
far apart and then they changed into
strange colors. and stranger shapes, and
n
He laughed. but the laugh had some
thing very like a. sob mixed up in it,
'Yop poor child" No wonder II fright
for the moon to set in the Arctic. It's
part of the same refraction that PLAYS
such strange tricks with the daylight
colors. NO. you're long way from the
ice madness, jeanne
But that wasn't all ] saw Philip. 1t
wasn't The worst. | saw ship against
the moon only il seemed too high above
the horizon, somehow. That's the CROWN
ing lmpossibiity And then the moons
began To dance. that wicked witch-like
dance of mockery. So lay down in the
snow and hid my face In my arms to
TO go 10 sleep. II seemed so easy and.
somehow. seemed right, too not wicked.
any way
She felt him shuddering again and his
Clasping arms strained her so close they
almost hurt.
Thank God I came in time" she
heard him whisper.
minded him, for she could still feel him
shudderjuG with the horror Of the thing.
You brought me back: s,s and I'm In not not
there was a little silence. Then, she
added. And I'm quite warm now"
His arms slackcned for A moment, and
"I-T-don't want 10 let you GO he
said. and his voice had a note in IL
which she had never heard before.
rs, -i,., hat C
INC for telling YOU ] have the whole
world in my arms when | hold YOU lilla
this. And life and death and promises.
and past deeds. and right and wrong.
are all swallowed up. just in tho love
Of you God forgive me. Jeanne: it's
true! Then he unclaspeed his arms
Can you forgive me. too?
She caught her breath in a great sob.
Turning a little. she clasped her own
Young arms around his neck and held him
tight.
it was long time after that before
But Why her voice broke in an
unsteody little laugh, but Why do you
verv first day the dav He found tho
va chit had gone. that You-you loved me.
That's why I allowed you 10 stay.
of loving. Jeanne. dear / had a right
to love the soul Of YOU for that was
whst had given me my Own soul BACK
and my power oi loving Snt we SET
out to live through this winter in the |
hone OF a rescue. tho hope that when
another day came it would bring shIr,
to take you back into your own real
world i couldn't 60 back With you ,, you
Since that was go, / hadn't any right
to love YOU ns-.ths this.2thsr snsn way, Wv won
love all Of YOU. from the crown Of glory
you wear, down to the ,h print you,r :. sI's, boot
your nistful lips The touch Of any
thing that is warm With your our hands hands
I can't make you under
stand" ,u
stand now. -,
And yet" he began after awhile. II
haven't any right. when I must give
you M some day.
She laid her fingers on his lips.
Wen not talk of rights she SAID
Not now. not tonight. But there
something more TO say. Philip. II wasnt
the sight Of the ship there against the
moon that made me think i wanted ~
all to end That was the excuse mace