Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1911-11-10

flown across the cliff a number OF
times, but have never seen anything
of it. He may have wrecked 1t; taken
purpose"
NO" 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 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 afterward ?"
81 didn't find anything about 1t In
the journal, but this morning, before
breakfast, when l went outside the
hut, one glance at the fact of the cliff
accounted for it fully. The cliff is
split right here, from top to bottom,
by deep, narrow assure. The assure
is full OF Ice, which l suppose hasn't
melted for a thousand years. No sum-
mer that they could have In 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
hulls-eye from the shelf behind her,
held out a hand to him and, on tip
toe, led him, with a burlesque exag-
geration of mystery, out into the store
room. AS completely mysti1ed in
reality as she playfully pretended to
want him to be, Cayley followed
She went straight across the store
room to the rear wall Of the hut the
wall that backed squarely against the
sheer surface OF the cliff, flashed on
the bull's-eye for a second, apparently
to make sure that she had chosen the
right point in the wall, then, letting
go his hand, she stopped and picked
up 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 drum
Cayley started. "a caveI" he ex- |
claimed. "A cave herei-Oh, l see.
It's a cold cellar they made by cutting |
a hole in the ice that filed the fissure |
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 bulls-eye now illum-
mated Cayley saw the barrel Of a
rusty hinge.
You see," she went on, its door.
and they only nailed it up the other
day. There's nail-head somewhere
here that's quite bright. I caught the
CLINT Of 1t while l was rummaging be-
fore breakfast. and that was what
made me look"
Cayley darted back into the living
DOM, returning almost instantly with
he broken-handled pick
In less than a minute, with a pro- I
esting squawk, the rude door swung {
open, and they saw before them just !
What Cayley had predicted. A rather |
Ugh, but narrow cavity, the sides Of /
which were the naked rock of the |
.liff, but the floor and ceiling solid {
ce. +
itement over the discovery of the c
ave had, for moment. carried Cay s
ey along with 1t, he was not greatly I
urprised, and not at all cast down b
ghen, at the end of FIVE minutes of
asty exploration, it was made evil
snt to them that the ample supply of
torres which they sought was not to b
e found here. b
Jeanne herself would not, perhaps,
ave entertained so high hope had 1
he learned of the reference to the n
Their cave which Cayley found in the "
3urnal before she herself had CHANGED
pom the mouth of this one. AS it Il
as, his theory that the stores were Il
} be found in a cave vaguely situated il
long the glacier, made little impress "
on upon her, she was so sure that d
icy udu DcSu llSnI uciS, uuuOI lucn
ands p
When their investigation made it al
ear that whether he was right or al
ot, certainly she was wrong, she was W
tterly disappointed Cayley was
ware OF that. even as they stood h'
ere, side by side, with no light to see hi
IT face by. She said nothing. or in
Try little, but he knew, nevertheless, W
at for just this moment all the life m
i'd courage had 8ne out of her; va
lew that the slight figure there, so |
ose beside him, was dropping, trem- 81
ing a little. VI
He laid a steady hand upon her
oulder Almost instantly, under his &C
UGH, she turned to him, caught with tn
tn hands at the unbottoned edges of ju
e rough wooden jacket he wore, and, he
bling little now and then, but 9TH pi
wise in silence, simply chung to him. tn
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