The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1911-06-29

n AsAA q hse nAAs II Aafa fss
IN 70 sick b his naos- But prssest
y - Looked ~ vt4h . sa11ss sUes-
tAsa- DO yoa AaDDsa b AsA aay-
tAiAe-- - bs0an. aaA tAea brots -
sAsetly.
Ffon hsr faes. halfsAaAsd - II
was. ~ could 80 hat What shs hal
bssa reading Just tAsa vas 10 mere
description of this laAA upoa which
they had bssa east away. but some
thing far more persoaal 70 ths father
ahs haA lost here.
There's so0stAiAg perfectly terri
Tying" she said. about fathers -
seriptioa of this man Roscoe. Ovss
here near tAs go. bsfors The sun
came bach 70 tAen. - tells Of going
out for . valk b. AiDsslf and of dis
covering that Roscoe was stalking
hin. in The hses. ~ thought oe dis-
covering. IN advance a the Others.
vhsre ths OolA lsAss vas. II tAs tvt
light fatAsr says. ~ LOOKED. II his
white bsarskfns. psessetly esosDoss
aad Incredible. AAA PhiliDe"
Ne closed ths beok. hel1inS II tight
II both hands. 81 laaafnS fosvarl .
little - sAs wsot O. "aaA PAiiiD. hi
AsscsiDtioa soanAs-oh. suppose it's
silly. bat Il Sounds like the thing !
theaSAt cav today when I was alose
there o. tAs bsaoh. bs6srs you cane
flying down out q The sky. II dilnt
look like . bsAS. It wouldn't have
bssn 20 dreadful Il II had"
ITS possible" ~ said grsvsly. n
may have bssa hs whom frightsasA
on when came Iowa last night Or.
tainly there vas somebody. and that
somebody may sttll b. here On shore,
though ! supposed hs had gone out to
JotA In The attack On the yacht But
its vssy strange. II thses 10 any one.
that Ne could have passel . whole
day without eneountssinS him"
The girl shivsesd: then. with .
shake of her head - II dismissing ~
uncanny thought from hse mind, said:
You started TO ask me- about soWe-
thing sass. and Interrupted"
II took him . moment to collect his
thoughts. -Oh. yes. Thers's some
thing marked here on this map which
I took e Arst for ths location of the
hut. but It appears now that It was
MARRIED bsfore they buik It. wonder
II. in the early pages oe The Journal,
there was description Of any natural
formatioo about here like Q cave,
W-
She made q II to open the book,
then, suddenly. changed her intsntioa
and held II out to him, instead.
Il haven't bsen playing fair" she
said. II wasn't really looking for any
thing. I Was Just reading stories and
dreaming over them. It's his hand.
writing, think. that makes It 10 hard
to b good. It's-wsll. almost like
hearing his voice. Wont you work
the book and the maps and give me
something to do-with my hands,
meanf-oh, I know IN tired, but that
doesn't matter"
Cayleyr nrst impulse was to refuse,
but Il nssdsd only one thoughtful look
into her fAeo TO oonvinco him that the
kindsst - we'll - the Wtsest, thing
was to do - she asked. An uncanAy
horror of the monstrous Roscoe and
the appalling idea that he. and Per.
haps othsrs Of his gang. might. b
sharing the solitude Of this froesn
coast with them was plainly to ~
read In her eyes. and her own pre-
scription for dispslling 1t was prob
ably the best that could b thought Of.
With . nod OF assent. he rose and
went into the storsroom. returning the
next moment With IN afmful of heavy
rope.
In the old days Of wooden ships"
he said, when they wanted to disci.
plins = sailor. they set him to picking
oakum. Next to pounding rust OF the
anchor, it's the dullest Job in the
world. But We need some for calking
up the cracks in our walls. Do you