Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-19
BY Henry kitchelI Webster

hour, their greatest treasure.
It's over here, toward the end" he
said, in hat last winter when the
Walrus came-oh. here we are"
He seated himself on the bunk beside
her. and began to read.
March 10th-We have Just spenksan
arduous and fearful week upon the
task OF unloading the wreck Of b
whaler. The weather has been severe
bitterly cold Go degrees Fahrenheit
being the mildest) and three-quarters
of a gale blowing most OF the time.
The men are inclined to be rebelIious
over my driving them out to work In
such weather. but I dared not wait for
it TO moderate.
When the ice opens round the
whaler, she viii go down like a plum
met; n If that event should have
happened before we unloaded her ofsher
stores, our plight would have been ut
terly desperate. OF stores in the
ordinarily accepted sense, she had but
a scanty supply, and those OF 8 mis-
erably inferior description; but abe
contained half a cargo OF whale oil
in barrels. which now that they are
landed Will settle the problem Of fuel
for us as long as the last survivor
of our company can hope { o remain
alive. And fuel is. after all, the only
necessity which this land itself does
not supply US with. OF course we shall
have to forego the delights OF bear
steak when our ammunition gives ont,
but walruses we can kill with harpoons.
And with these and scurvy-grass, which
we gather In the valley every sum-
mer. there is no danger of actual
starvation.
I'VE hoisted the barrels Of binbber
out of the wha1er's hold with . hand
tackle, sledged them ashore along the
noe and the crown of the glacier to
Moseley's cave, which seemed to be the
most convenient place 10 store them
temporarily"
CayIey laid down the boob. and
turned to the girl.
That's the place; I'm perfectly
sure" he said. at evidently faces the
glacier, but it must be very near the
beach. for they wouldn't have hauled
those barrels I'M further than neces-
sary.''
els that all he says about it,"
Its all he say directly. but there's
a reference just a little further along.
which made me all the surer II was
right. Let's see"
He opened the book again and ran
his eye down the pase. -AhunfTe1-
weight or so of spermaceti and two
barrels of sperm oil we took directly
to the hut'-here, this is what 1 was
looking for.
The knowledge we get by exper-
fence often comes too late q be OF
n great service to US. I mada some
mistakes in stripping the Phoenix,
which / should not repeat now. For
instance. carrying her pilot housesw1th
infinite labor, up to the ~cliff-heads for
an observatory. It is thoroughly Inn
practicable for this purpose. I doubt
if I have visited it three times since
Mr.. Moseley's death"
HE was the and botanist
of fathers expedition" said the girl
Cayley read on: but now that I
have learned my lesson, / have but
little to apply the knowledge TO. The
Walrus is, 1 believe, the most
utterly wretched hulk that ever
sailed the seas-ill-found, detestably
dirty and literally rotting to pieces We
shall, however. get enough plauks and
timbers ont of her TO build a she'd ~
two near the hut for the more con-
venient storage of our supplies"
Again he closed the book That's
what l vas looking for" he said. You
see. they brought that stuff down from
the ave to these sheds: so the a
would be almost inevitably the first
hiding place they would think of when
the sight Of the Aurora drove them to
hustle everything out of sight"
"Whereabout on the cliff is the OBJ
s~ervatory. Philip"
II was wondering about that. I've
flown across the cliff a number of times,
but have never seen anything of ii. He
may have wrecked it; taken It down
and used it for some other purpose"
mo" she said; he'd hardly have had
time for that. There weren't many
more pages to write in h journal
when he made that entry"
She fell then into a little distracted
silence, which the man did not know
how to break. But presently she reused
herself and came fully back to the
present. back to him.
Did you succeed in accounting for
the thing you asked me about last
night. the mark on the map right here
where they built the hut afterward ?"
II didn't find anything about it in the
journal. but this morning. before break
fast. when l went outside the hut, m
glance at the face of the cliff accounted
for it fully. The cliff is split right here.
from top to bottom. by a deep, narrow
fissure. The fissure is full of ice, which
I suppose hasn't melted for a thousand
years. No summer that they could
have in a high latitude like this would
ever melt 1t, certainly"
The girl laughed and rose from her
place at the rude table.
"Well," she asked. ARE you ready for
my discovery now?9
She took down his pocket electric
bul1s-eye from the shelf behind her.
held out a hand to himsand. on tip-toe.
led him, with a burlesque exaggeration
of mystery. out into the storeroom. As
completely mystified In reality as she
playfully pretended to want him TO BE-.
Cayley followed.