The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-09-09
met; and II that event should have

ordinarily accepted sense, she had pur
scanty supply, and those of a mis-
erably inferior description; but she
contained half . cargo Of whale oil in
barrels, which now that they are
landed will settle the problem of fuel
for US as long as the last survivor of
our company can hope to remain alive.
And fuel is, after all. the only neces-
sity which this land itself does not
supply us with. OF course we shall
have to forego the delights of bear
steak when our ammunition gives out.
but walruses we can kill with har-
poems. And with these and scurvy-
grass, which We gather in the valley
every summer, there is no danger of
actual starvation.
1--WE hoisted the barrels of blubber
out of the whaler's hold with hand
tackle, sledged them ashore along the
foe and the crown of the glacier to
Moseley's cave, which seemed to be
the most convenient place to store
them temporarily"
Cayley laid down the book and
turned to the girl.
That's the place, I'm perfectly
sure" he said. 1T evidently faces
the glacier, but it must be very near
the beach, for they wouldn't have
hauled those barrels any further than
necessary
rs that all he says about IT."
TITS all he says directly, but there's
q reference Just little further along
which made me all the surer l was
right Let's see."
He opened the book again and ran
his eye down the page. "a hundred.
weight or SO of spermaceti and two
barrels Of sperm oil we took directly
to the hut'-here. this Is what I was
looking for.
1.-THE knowledge we get by expert.
ence often comes too late to be of any
great service to us: l made some
mistakes in stripping the Phoenix,
which should not repeat now. For
instance, carrying her pilot house,
with infinite labor, up to the cliff
head for an observatory. It is thor
oughly impracticable for this purpose.
I doubt II have visited it three times
since Mr.. Moseley's death"
He was the astronomer and botan-
list Of fathers expedition" said the
girl.
Cayley read on: "'But now that l
have learned my lesson. l have but
little to apply the knowledge to. The
Walrus is, believe, the most utterly
wretched hulk that ever sailed the
seas-ill-found, detestably dirty and
literally rotting to pieces. We shall,
however, get enough planks and tim
bers out of her to build shed or two
storage of our supplies.'
Again he closed the book. That's
what was looking for" he said. "You
see they brought that stuff down from
the cave to these sheds; so the cave
would be almost inevitably the first
hiding place they would think Of
when the sight Of the Aurora drove
them to hustle everything out of
sight"
"Whereabout on the cliff is the OBJ
servatory, Philip"
II was wondering about that I've
flown across the cliff a number Of
times, but have never seen anything
Of It,. He may have wrecked it; taken
it down and used it for some other
purpose"
NO." she said; he'd hardly have
had time for that There weren't
many more pages to write in the Jour-
nal when he made that entry"
She fell then into little distracted
silence, which the man did not know
how to break. But presently she reused
herself and came fully back to the pres
ent, back to him.
did you succeed In accounting for
the thing you asker me abou, last
night. the mark on the map right here
where they built the hut afterward?"
Il didn't find anything about 1t in
the Journal but this morning, before
breakfast, when / went outside the
hut, one glance at the fact of the cliff
accounted for it fully The cliff Is
split right here, from top to bottom,
by deep, narrow assure. The fssure
10 1uIl Ol lC0, WHICH / 6uppOoc udSu
melted for thousand years. No sum-
mer that they could have in high lat
itude like this would ever melt it, GER
tainly."
The girl laughed and rose from her
place at the rude table.
WELL" she asked, ARE you ready
for my discovery now"
She took down his pocket electric
bull s.eye from the shelf behind her,
held out hand to him and, on tip
toe, led him, with burlesque exag-
geration Of mystery, out into the store.
room. AS completely mystifled in
reality as she playfully pretended to
want him to be, Cayley followed.
She went straight across the store
room to the rear wall Of the hut, the
wall that backed squarely against the
sheer surface Of the cliff, flashed on
the bulrs-eye for second, apparently
to make sure that she had chosen the
right point in the wall, then, letting
70 his hand, she stopped and picked