Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-06-09

| sheer surface of the clin, flashed on
the bull's-eye for 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 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 herei-Oh, l see.
It's a cold cellar they made by cutting
! 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 little circle of
wall which the bull's-eye now illum-
mated Cayley saw the barrel of
rusty hinge
You see," she went on, Its door,
md they only nailed It up the Other
| day. There's a nail-head somewhere
here that's quite bright. | caught the
CLINT of it while / was rummagins be-
fore breakfast, and that was what
made me look"
Cayley darted back into the living
room, returning almost instantly with
| the broken handled pick
| In less than a minute, with a pro
| testing squawk, the rude door swung
| open, and they saw before them just
what Cayley had predicted. A rather
high. but narrow cavity, the sides of
which were the naked rock of the
cliff, but the floor and ceiling solid
ice.
Despite the fact that the girls ex-
element over the discovery of the
cave had, for a moment, carried Cay
ley along with 1t, he was not greatly
surprised, and not at all cast down
when, at the end Of five minutes of
hasty exploration, it was made evil
dent to them that the ample supply of
stores which they sought was not to
be found here.
Jeanne herself would not, perhaps.
have entertained SO high a hope had
she learned of the reference to the
other cave which Cayley found In the
journal before she herself had CHANGED
upon the mouth of this one. AS 1t
was, his theory that the stores were
! to be found in a cave vaguely situated
| along the glacier, made little impress
sion upon her, she was so sure that
they had been right here. under their
| hands
When their investigation made it
clear that whether he was right or
not, certainly she was wrong, she was
bitterly disappointed. Cayley was
| aware of that, even as they stood
| here, side by side, with no light to see
her face by She said nothing, or
very little, but he knew, nevertheless,
that for just this moment all the life
and courage had gone out of her;
knew that the slight figure there, SO
close beside him, was dropping. trem-
bling little.
He laid a steady hand upon her
shoulder Almost instantly, under his
touch, she turned to him, caught with
both hands at the unbottoned edges of
the rough wooden Jacket he wore, and,
sobbing a little now and then, but 9th
erwise in silence, simply chung to him.
He did not offer, with his arms, to
draw her any closer, to turn what was
mere instructive appeal to the protec-
ton of his strength and courage, into
an embrace He kept hand on each
of her shoulders. more by way OF sup
port than anything else, and waited
a moment before he spoke.
After ALL" he said at last, what
we've got here is just so much clear
gain, and it will be immensely valu-
able to us, though it isn't what we ex-
pected The fact that it is their super
fully, the things they hadn't any par
ticular or immediate use for, doesn't
make what we've found here any the
less valuable to us. That pile of bear
skins there will supply what is, at this
moment, the most vital OF our wants
That big sack appears to contain
feathers; and those walrus tusks VIII
serve any number of purposes-forks
and spoons for one thing. AS to that
great lump of spermaceti, 1t will keep
us supplied with candles all through
the winter. can't imagine why they
didn't use it themselves, except on
the theory that the longer they lived
here the more they grew like beasts;
the more content with the beast S
habit of life, and the more inert about
taking the trouble to provide then
selves with such Of the comforts and
decencies of life as they might rave
had. So you see, We may find among
the things they had no use for the
very ones that will help us most
Ito be continued)
We can forgive a man II ne oorrows
a dollar and forgets TO pay II pack.
We can forgive HIM if he backoites.