The Mena weekly star., 1911-03-16

something that would make To- -.
me ialsity of it as clearly S do
NO. he said; that was never nos
siple. It's less possible than ever
mat involuntary admission toid hsu
much If the thing SIZE spgoestad
were less possible now than n bad 49,
before, then, somehow or other tha
yindication must have rested IN parrv
Hunters hands But the 6nal9v 20
MS voice and the dumb agony she con,
N his face, as he paced baels ana
forth beside her, prevented her from,
following up the admission. or urging
him any further.
lie pulled himself up sharply and
looked at his watch. 1T viii he dov.
light III two hours now" he Gaia
When it comes Wen signal 10 the
yacht and they'll send for Won ana
take you away-you and this precious
find you've made. In the meantime
you must go to sleep You hardly
slept at all while was reading"
i hardly dare go to sleep-not
really deep asleep. If did Tn afraid
you'd turn out to be all dream. and
I'd find myself back in my stateroom
on the yacht" She was speaking half
In mockery, but there was an under.
tone of seriousness in her voice.
Think how unlikely it is that all this
can have happened" she went on.
You said this morning you were go
ing to leave us, and ! watched you
go.-How can it be anything but a
dream that you were hanging aloft
there in the sky, above the fog. ready
to come plunging down when | cried
out for help?"
Il told you once" he said not very
steadily, that one of us might be
dreaming, but that one was not you.'
You will promise, then" she asked.
that If I go to sleep, I'll wake up
here and not on the yacht, and that
you won't have disappeared?s
4 promise, he said seriously.
He seated himself once more at her
feet. switched off the fading light
from the bull's-eye and drew the
sleeves Of her coat across his shout
ders. Good night" he said.
She answered drowsily.
Warmed little, and oppressed by
complete exhaustion, he fell asleep
himself. He knew, at least, that he
must have done so, when, roussng
with a start and springng to his feet,
he saw ray of sunshine splashed
golden upon the opposite wall of the
hut. 1t must have been light for
hours.
Very silently. very cautiously he I'M
barred the door and pulled it open Be
fore opening the outer door, he drew
his revolver and spun It's cylinder un-
derneath his thumb-nail If the re-
pulsed party from the Walrus were
camped near by, 1t would be we'll to
be cautious before accommodating.
He pulled the outer door little way
opeI and glance slantwise up the
beach The brilliant light dazzled him
and made 1t hard to see; but appar-
emily there was no one there Step
ping outside, he turned his gaze in
land, along the foot of the cliff. His
mind was entirely preoccupied with
The danger of sudden rush Of enc
mics from near at hand
That is how it happened that, for
quite a minute after he opened the
door and stepped outside, he did not
cast single glance seward. He
did not look in that direction. until
he saw that Jeanne, awakened by the
daylight in the hut, was standing in
the doorway Her own eyes, puzzled,
incredulous. only half awake, were
gazing out to sea. The expression he
saw in her face made him turn, sud
denly and look.
The scene before his eyes was beaw
tiful, with that stupendous beauty thai
only the arctic can attain. The har-
Dor and beyond it, far out to sea-
clear to the horizon, was filled with
great plunging, churning masses Of
Ice, all drenehed in color by the low
hanging arctic sun-violet. rose, pure
golden-yellow and emerald-green. and
a white whose incandescence fairly
staEAed the eye. And as those