Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-03-10


time, and Il seemed q perfectly In
termluable while before she heard
CRyley returning down the ice chin
ney. Had she known how long :, real
/ ~ VaF she would have been justified
/ IN feeling seriously worried about Gin,
but not knowing she attributed tho
foemlrg duration Of his delay 70 tho
tedMm Of sitting iu the dark With
nothing 20 do Even az that, she was
conscious o. q feeling " relief when
she heard him call out 70 her once
more, cheerhly, albeit somewhat
AJovly, from the chimney's mouth.
Jeanne. where are your
"Hero. hst whore you left me-"
"Herel All th9 while You must
he haH frozen. I've been gons the
better part Of an hour"
u didn't know how long 8, Was, and
! kept thinking you'd be back any
minute But where IL the
world have you besnr'
Hy the ame she asked that question
hoy had groped them way back into
the storeroom and thence into the lly.
ing room o. tie hut and BY nov she
WAS looking At him IA the full lirht o.
day
He dropped down. with rather e1'
plos'vo Sigh upon one q the hunks,
and poked tentatively ~ his thighs
and shoulders As 4 they we're numb
with fatigue
y th.rk by & reasonable estimate" "
he SAD that chimney IL ave miles
high kept go!Is and going and 80
!1g uu { began 70 believe that there
wasn't any slt 20 q, or that ~ some
magic o. other, slipped down s
yart as often a. veut ~ one But
J t.t 60; 90 he srt O. last, and III
E.7e ycg q thousand G-ossss As 10
vha, found Gsrs
The observatory ere haErted.
sob tlt zo; really t.t TO; mean
'5E. '1- au honest guess q, AL Il vas
lls' he frst ia.ug ,.a: came irto ny
hslt Bat how cog.t they pull tho
pIo, house o. The Phoenix W through
TIA; u,te hole N he .cef"
"Wo- 20 tell lie truth 7 DON'T he
Esve hey d.l.' he answered with
uosEug seriousness 'lrs more IKE
Iy that hey took it 10 pieces. and then
r.Esst e. boon and tackle O.? al The
clFts.t and hauled q W outside.
But when hey got S, % there they
pu, q together sghlu r.gh; across tie
hssure and then tunueiled down or
up n, whole depth o, the elm II
must have taken them weeks 10 DO Il,
and when Il Was done they had an IN.
side connection between II and tie
hut 40 that they were quite indepeu.
dent OF tie weather And II must
have been a great place 20 make OBJ
serya,ions from"
Have beeu'" she echoed question
lugly "Isut II now7'
"No. because It's En showed and
frozen iu It's buried, | don't know
how many feet deep by this time and
dark. OF course, 90 pocket Bui
everything inside Ia quite undisturhed
! doubt II single momOer Of the wax
rus crew ever saw Il. or even sus-
pected that such a place existed"
lie uubuuoued hl5 jacket and took
from an inner POCKET scrap Of pa.
per
Being methodlcal person" he eT.
plalngd 81 made m inventory Its
really quite u respectable list
She seated herself beslde him on
the bunk ~ II 70 read the paper,
Il imagine you will need an inter
prvtor," he said I've half forgotten
wtLt these tracks mean myself My
hands were so sti with the cold 4,
wasn't very easy TO write But that
frst word is telescope And then
there are the meteorological instru.
ments, barometers, Thermometers, and
go on, and the PhoeniK's compass, sex
tant and ohronometor, microscope,
q pArhfine oven and big chunk Of
pRraflne an oil lamp a flve-gallon can
about half full Of oil, and small
stove. There was providentih treas
ure for me In the form OF q razor,
which they used, suppose, for cutting
microscopic sections with. I'm glad
they hadn't microtone 10 DO II prop
srly"
You didpt nnd a comb for me, did
your she asked. because, unleAs
you dld. or until you do you won't
be allowed 10 use the razor"
~ suppose could make you ono,
or a sort OF one Il would bo genuine
ivory, anyway"
He had come, apparently, to the end
OF the list
We'll" she said, Il suppose We
might nnd something 10 DO with al.
most any one Of those things some
Ot them viii be useful, certainly, And
It's pleasant, somehow, TO think OF our
little pilot house, all showed IN, up
there on the clinhead, aud Of our In
side passage leading up TO Il"
That's quite trv0," he said. II sup
pose its all romantic nonsense, but Il
does give one certain feeling Of 81.
security However" he went
on, we're not reduced as yet to any
thing as intangible as that as a sub
jeot FOR giving thanks You haven't
seen the whole OF my list yet I've