Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-26


For a long time Roscoe walked
steadily on, until the two had come
far up the glacier. Finally, when he
did stop, he whirled quito around and
stood confronting Planck s%Quarely in
the middle of a narrow path between
two deep assures in the ice. His eyes
were glittering malevolently:
do you know any reason" he asked
In q thick voice, why 1 don't pick you
up and drop you down n OF those
cracks there, or why I don't serve you
| as / served hat fellow yesterday"
Planck thought he meant to do IT. but.
with the fatalism that marks the men
of his profession, he stood fast and
| eyed his big opponent.
You're strong enough to-" he said.
"And I'll do it il 1 want to; you
know that" Roscoe supplemented.
Yes, l know that" The big fellow
nodded curtly.
well I'm not going to now, because
/ choose not to. Listen. II o had a
| chance, could you navigate that solid
mahogany, hand-painted ship down
there?"
Planck cleared his throat as If m
thing were sitting him. with a crew,
yes" he answered.
could Schwartz run those nickel
plated engines he'd find in her. do you
think ?"
"Yes."
well, within two days II give you q
chance to make good. Now. I'm going
to tell you my plan, not because you
asked, but because / want o to
know. I'd run the whole thing alone If
1 could, but I want you with me. We're
going to take that yacht and we're
going of alone In her-we Of the Whal-
er. alone. Do you understand that?"
They're better armed than We" said
PIanck, ref~iectively; better fed. better
everything. And man for man., bar
you, they're just as good, and they re
three TO one of us. 1t will want some
pretty good planning.
you needn't worry about that" an
swered Roscoe. ST didn't expect you to
make the plans; I knew you couldn't.
I've made them myself; they're work.
ing right now. Can you keep your
tongue in your head and listen?"
Planck nodded.
THAT searching party didn't go back
to the yacht last night. They're all
CdI1DGu lO6CtAiOl- 10O4@ Va 49,
down in Little Bear Valley. There
aren't above half a dozen firearms in
he bunch; none of the sailors from
the yacht have any. and they've got
about two days rations. They're all
there together. except the n man we
accounted for yesterday"
It see," said Planck; land you think
we ran capture the yacht now while
they're ashore"
Don't try to think. 1 tell you" Ros-
coe growied. Tn doing the thinking.
There are probably ten ~able-bodied
men left on the yacht. That's not good
enough odds, considering the way
they're armed. But about an hour ago
1 sent Miguel down to the shore party
to be their guide. He isn't going to
say anything much to them, but what
he says will be enough, I reckon. He's
to pretend he's dotty and can't under
stand what they say to him.
Planck's eyes widened a little and he
did not ask his next question very
steadily. Where is he going to take
them?"
Cant you guess that? He's going
to cad them into Fog Lake. of course"
The thought of it made Planck's
teeth chatter. Fog Lake was, perhaps,
the most curious natural phenomenon
upon that strange Arctic land-a little
cup-shaped valley, from which the fog
never lifted-had never lifted once IN
all the four years they had lived there.
On days when the rest of h land was
clear the fog hung there, half way up
the side of the hills. so that from the
u .-~Narn1sn1 - A raof1x- 1n1Iod
like a strange vapory sea- They had
explored the edges of it, fearsomely, at
times, but had never penetrated far
terry, If it had one.
You say Miguel is going to guide
them in there?" Planck asked. 'How's
he going to get out himself?"
Roscoe laughed shortly: 'Oh. he's