Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-15

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them to hustle everything out OF
sight"
"Whereabout on the cliff is the OBJ
servatory, Philip"
81 wal wondering about that. I've
flown across the cliff a number OF
times. but lave never seen anything
Of 1t. He may have wrecked it; taken
1t 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 the jour
nal 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 pres
ent, 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 afterwardY'
81 didn't find anything about 1t IN
the journal, but this morning, before
breakfast, when | went outside the
hut, one glance at the fact Of the cliir
accounted for it fully. The cliff Is
split right here, from top to bottom,
by a deep, narrow 1ssure. The assure
is full of ice, which l suppose hasn't
melted for a thousand years. No sum
mer that they could have in a high lat
itude like this would ever melt it, GER
tainly."
The girl laughed and rose from her
place at the rude table.
well" she asked, ARE you ready
for my discovery now?"
She took down his pocket electric
bull's.eye from the shelf behind her,
held out a hand to him and, on tip
toe. led him, with a b%urlesque exag-
geration Of mystery, out into the store
room. As completely mystiied IN
reality as she playfully pretended to
want him to be, Cayley followed.
She went straight across the store
room to the real wall Of the hut, the
wall that backed squarely against the
sheer surface Of the cliff, flashed on
the bulIs-eye for a second, apparently
to make sure that she had chosen the
right point in the wall, then, letting
20 his hand, she stopped and picked
I'D a stick of fire-wood which lay at
her feet. With this she struck pretty
hard upon the planking. The sound
which the blow gave forth was as
hollow as a drum.
Cayley started. "A cave!" he ex-
claimed. "A cave here!-Oh, l see.
It's a cold cellar they made by cutting
a hole in the ice that filled the assure.
And why do you suppose they boarded
it up?"
The girl laughed ~delightedly. Evil
IDENTIFY she had not, as yet, developed
the whole of her discovery. She
flashed on the light again.
Look" she commanded.
In the center of a little circle of
wall which the bull's-eye now illum-
( mated Cayley saw the barrel of a
rusty hinge,
you see," she went on, ITS a door,
and they only nailed 1t up the other
l day. There's a nail-head somewhere
here that's quite bright. l caught the
> CLINT of it while l was rummaging be
fore breakfast, and that was what
made me look"
: Cayley darted back into the living
room, returning almost instantly will
the broken-handled pick.
\ In less than a minute, with a pro
a testing squawk, the rude door swung
pen and they saw before them jus
q what Cayley had predicted. A rathe.
q high, but narrow cavity, the sides o
which were the naked rock Of thu
! cliff. but the floor and ceiling solit
ice.
" Despite the fact that the girls ez
:, citement over the discovery Of tn
a V had. for a moment, carried Cay
ley along with it, he was not great
n surprised, and not at all cast dow
when, at the end of five minutes c
hasty exploration, it was made ev
- dent to them that the ample supply
o. stores which they sought was not t
be found here.
Jeanne herself would not, perhaps
n have entertained so high a hope ha
l. she learned of the reference to tn
"a other cave which Cayley found in th
" journal before she herself had chance
"a upon the mouth of this one. AS
was, his theory that the stores. wei
i to be found in a cav vaguely situate
~ along the glacier, made little impre
" sion upon her, she was so sure thi
they had been right here, under the
~ hands.
When their investigation made
~ clear that whether he was right
not, certainly she was wrong, she WI
. bitterly disappointed. Cayley W;
aware of that, even as they stoc
here, side by side, with no light to 81
j., her face by. She said nothing,
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