The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-27
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said Cayley, we'll try not to disabuse him. A belief like that is an item on our side of the ledger, certainly. And we haven't any such balance in our tavor that we can afford to throw an aoVantage away. even a small one" Really the balance of advantage be. tween them and their enemy was amazingly even. They had the hut. the enemy the stores. They had Cap tain t1elding's journal, their enemy the experience and practical knowl- edge of the country. They were two. with but a single weapon between them. Their enemy, for auxht they hnew' might be one or half dozen: and how armed. they did not know.
 Fortunately, no prophetic vision en- abled them to anticipate, on that first evening, the length of time that that precarious life and death balance would maintain itself. They had agreed, Philip and Jeanne, that the only thing to do was to walt and to maintain an unsinking vigilance. But both of them thought of the duration or this wait in terms of hours. or. at most, days. Had they foreseen that 1t would stretch itself out into weeks and months, they might well have des- paired
 There were two things that kept them from succumbing to despair. The first was that they never really permitted themselves to hope, to in- dulge in any thoughts of summers day when their horizon should be cut by the spars and tunnels 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. It was the only attitude pos sible for people in their condition.
 And the thing that helped them to maintain 1t was the abundance of nee essary routine occupation. They dl vided their day into watches. Cayley slept from four o'clock in tho after noon until midnight and then kept watch alone, as the girl had done, un- til 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 tramping up and down for exercise.
 At first there was a good deal of work to do. Tearing down the sheds which clustered about the hut, and reducing their frames and planking to f1re-wood was an arduous task, but he worked at it until 1t was done, Jeanne standing sentinel all the time.
 When 1t was done, they were prac- tcally secure against surprise, for from their windows, with the aid of a field-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 cliff His flight 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 flash and a swoop would not bring him to her side. The other reason was, that if superstitious fear of this great man-bird were really what deterred their enemy from at tacking them, it was well to let him believe that immunity from this DOT tent could be secured by keeping away from this particular stretch of beach.
 As the shortening days sped by and began to get themselves reckoned into weeks, the conviction grew upon Philip and Jeanne that their securest protection lay in his wings. in the terrorizing effect upon their invisible. silent enemy of the majestic winged apparition which was SO often seen soaring in midsky above the hut and the little stretch of beach surrounding 1t. Something was protecting them evidently Almost every week brought some evidence, not only of the exis- tence but the nearness of their enemy. They never actually caught sight or sound of him. but some times when the wind blew from the right quarter they could make out, with their field glass, a wrack of brownish smoke. such as would be given of by burning whale oil, drifting down from some where along the glacier, and made visible by the dazzling wilderness of that background.
 And sometimes they saw track in the newly fallen snow, never coming very near the hut, but trespassing e little way, either down from the glacier or up from the headland, upon the stretch of beach they were de- fending. They never found the tracks of more than 6 single man. and these were always the same. So that they came to believe, although they could not know, that they had only one man to deal with.
 They sometimes spcculated on the question whether he was Roscoe or some other member of the Walrus crew; really, in fact. they found 1t impossible to hope that 1t was any other than he.
 They got proof of bis Identity. or whet amounted to it. along toward the