Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-03-11

we haven't any such balance In our
favor that we can afford to throw an
advantage away, even . small onsP
Really the balance OF advantage be-
tween them and their enemy wss
amazingly even. They had THO hut.
the enemy the stores They bad Cap
tain Ftelding's Journal. theiT enemy
the experience and practical knowl.
edge OF the country, They We're two,
with but single weapon between
them, Their enemy, for sught they
knew, might be one or a half a dozeni
and bow armed. they did not know.
Fortunately. no prophetic vision en-.
abled them TO anticipate, on that first
evening the length OF time that that
p~~--i""s life and death balance
would maintain Itself I'iey hsd
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 the 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 we'll have des.
paired
There were two things that kept
them from succumbing TO lsspair
The first WAS that they never really
permitted themselves TO hope, to IN.
dulse in any thoughts Of a summers
day when their horizon should be cut
by the spars and funnsls Of a ship
bringing relief. They were simply
going TO live one day at time. For
every day that they could snatch out
OF the hand of death, they would give
thanks. 1t was the only attitude pos
sible for people in their condition
And the thing that helped them to
maintain II was the abundance OF nee
essary routine occupation. They di.
vided their day into watches. Cayley
slept from four o'clock In the after.
noon until midnight and then kept
watch alone as the girl had done, un.
Ill eight. During that period they re-
mained inside the hut. The day, from
eight until four, they spent out Of
doors, when the condition OF the
weather made this possible, either at
work or merely tramplng up and down
for exercise.
At first there was q good deal Of
work to do. Tearing down the sheds
which clustered about the hut and
reducing their frames and planklng
TO fre-wcod was an srduous task, but
be worked at II entil It was done,
Jeanne standing sentinel ali the time.
When It was done, they we're prac-
tically secure against surprise, for
from their windows, with the aid Of a
held.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
patrolled the beach, from the glacier
to the promontory, high up above the
level Of the crest OF the cllf His
fight was always along the same
track. He never winged his way in.
land nor out TO sea-
There were two reasons for this.
He dared not go so far away from
Jeanne that fash and a swoop would
not bring him to her side. The other
reason was, that II superstitlous fear
OF this great man.bird were really
what deferred their enemy from at.
tacking them, It was we'll to let him
believe that immunity from this por.
tent could be secured by keeping
away from this particular stretch Of
beach.
As the shortening days sped by and
began to got themselves reokoned into
weeks. the conviction grew upon
Philip and Jeanne that their securest
protection lay In his wings, In the
terrorising effect upon their Invisible,
silent enemy Of the majestic winged
spparitlon which was so often seen
soaring in midslly above the hut and
tho little stretch Of beach surrounding
II, Something was protecting them
evidently Almost every week brought
some evidence, not only of the eds.
tence but the nearness OF their enemy.
They never actually caught sight or
sound Of him, but some times when
tho wind blew from the right quarter
they could make out, with their field.
slass, wraok OF brownish smoke,
such as would be given Off by burning
whale oil, drifting down from some.
whore along the glacier, and made
visible by the dazzling whiteness Of
that background,
And sometimes they saw track IN
the newly fallen snow, never coming
very near the hut but trespsssing 4
little way, either down from tho
glacier or up from the headland, upon
the stretch OF beach they were de.
tonding They never found the tracks
Of more than Q single rnau, aud these
we're always the same, So that they
same to believe. although they could
Gsst know. thar they had only one man
to deal with,
They sometimes speculated on the
question whether he was Roscoe or
come other member OF the Walrus