Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-25
Continued From Yesterday,

Really the balance Of advantage be-
tween them and their enemy was
amazingly even. They had the hut, the
enemy the stores. They had Captain
Fielding's journal. their enemy the ex-
~perience and practical knowledge OF the
country. They were two. with put a
single weapon between them. Their
enemy, for aught they knew. might be
one or a half a dozen; and how armed,
they did not know
Fortunately, no prophetic vision
| enabled them to anticipate, on tnat
| first evening, the length OF time that
| that precarious life and death balance
would maintain itself. They had
agreed, Philip and Jeanne. that the
only thing to do was to wait and TO
maintain an unwinking vigilance. But
both OF them thought of h duration
of this wait in terms of hours, or, at
most. days. Had they foreseen that
It would stretch itself out into weeks
and months. they might well have de-
SPARED.
There were two things that kept
them from succumbing to despair The
frst was hat they v really per
mitted themselves to hope. to indulge
In any thoughts of a summers day
| when their horizon should be cut by
the spars and tunnels of a ship bring
ing relief. They we're simply going to
| live one day at a time. For every day
that they could snatch out OF the nann
Of death, they would give snanKs- II
was the. only attitude possible for
people In their condition
And the thing thai helped them 70
maintain it was the OF
necessary routine occupation Tney
divided their day into watches. Cayiey
slept from four o'clock in h AFTERNOON
until midnight and then kept watcn
alone. as the girl had done. until eight.
During that period they remained IN
side the hut. The day, from eight IN
til four. they spent out of doors, when
the condition of the weather made this
possible. either at work or merely
tramping up and down for exercise.
At first there was a good deal OF
work to do. Tearing down the sheds
which clustered about the hut and re-
ducine their frames and planking to
fre-wood was an arduous task, but he
worked at 1t until It was done. Jeanne
standing sentinel all the time.
When it was done. they were prac-
ticaIly secure against surprise, for from
their windows. with the aid Of a field
glass which Cayley had found in the
observatory, they were able TO sweep
the whole beach absolutely clean, in
both directions.
And almost every day while the light
lasted, with Jeanne. armed with the
revolver, keeping watch before the hut,
Cayley took to his wings and patroled
the beach. from the glacier to the
promontory. high up above h level OF
the crest of the cliff. His flight was
always along the same track He never
winged his way inland nor out to sea.
There were two reasons for this. He
dared not go so far away from Jeanne
that a flash and a swoop would not
bring him to her side. The other reaso
was that If a superstitious fear of this
great man-bird were really what de-
TERED their enemy from attacking
them, 1t was well to let him believe
that Immunity from this portent could
be secured by keeping away from this
particular stretch OF beach.
AS the shortening days sped by and
began to get themselves reckoned into
weeks, the conviction grew upon Philip
and Jeanne that their securest protec-
ton lay in his wings. in the ~terrorizing
effect upon their invisible. silent enemy
of the majestic winged apparition
which was $50 often seen soaring in
mid-sky above the hut n the little
stretch of beach surrounding it. Some
thing was protecting them evidently.
Almost every week brought some evil
dence, not only of b existence, but
of the nearness of their enemy. They
never actually caught sight or sound
of him, but sometimes when the wind
blew from the right quarter they could
make out, with their feld-glass, a
wrack of brownish smoke, such as
would be given off by burning whale
oil. drifting down from somewhere
along the giacisr, and made visible
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