The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1911-07-06
CHAPTER xvI-centInvsd.

ooout AnA-Jeanne, II was NO base
to0s terror no product Of the twilight
aAd the fact that you were far from
hoos. There was something there.
slipptns aloos from the shelter Of one
boulder to that Of another. I found
tAs tracks in the snow. They weren't
more than ton PAGES away from you,
WAsa ! came down out Of the sky"
WA It the bear?" she asked. That
vas what you thought It might have
bssn, at the time" But hs could So
n her eyes that rnas was mot the eA-
swsr she expsctsd.
He shook his head: that told her
saoush.
A. Roscoe hsd along the beach On
tAs night Cayiey descsnded upon him
through the fog, there was no doubt
b his mind that he haa sssn the ghost
q the man he had murdered and
he shadow Of black avensing spirit
lowering over his head.
When hs found that his boat had
Opos adrift and that his only means
& getting back TO the Aurora had
0oos With II, hs dropped down upoa
beaeA. crawlsd up into the lee OF .
great rock and had spent the night
thsrs. his mind eomplstsly torpid with
1oaf.
When the numbness Of this terror
Daseed away. a. gradually It did. he
bent all this thoughts upon the Aurora
ed upon the possibility. not quite in
ssnceivable. that his crew had sue
eseded in overpowering her people
end were now in possession Of tho
yacht He tried to persuade himself
that this was 30 and that with the
coming of the dawn they would send
. boat ashore for him.
OF the strange figure he had seen
hero in the hut, 20 like and yet 10
terribly unlike the victim Of his mur-
derous lust four years ago-of that,
and Of the more terrible apparition he
had seen coming down out Of the sky.
he thought, or tried to think nothing
at ALL 1t was only . nightmare, only
. delusion, natural enough when one
considered all the circumstances.
When the fog lifted with the ap-
proach Of dawn, hs discovered what
Philip and Jeanne did not become
aware Of until several hours later, that
the Aurora had drifted out to sea in
the gale. Tho clean line Of the hori.
zen was broken by nothing but the
plunging masses Of the ice. There was
Just one chance. he thought, tha. she
might still be comparatively near ut
hand. southward and eastward the
horizon was unbroken, but the juttins
mass Of the promontory to the west
cut on his view in that direction. 1t
was possible that the gale which had
destroyed the hoe that formed the
harbor, had also broken up the pack
ice at the other side Of the peninsula,
the side from which Cayley, on the
wing, had frst approached this un-
known land. The yacht might be
there. riding safely in practically open
water.
He got up from the snow nest he
had made for himself in the Ice Of the
rock, and cautiously fexed his stiffep.
Cd muscles. with the idea Of ssttins
out At once down the beach and
around the headland to learn whether
this last hope Of his was groundleso
Really, in his heart, he had no hops
a& all. but that fact made It easy to
Deotpons for little longer the puttins
ol this delusion oe . hope No haa "a
- test Of reality.
Ths excuse hs made to himself waa,
thaG - was ravsnously hungry. and
tAae HI most sensible course would b
70 70 up the glaodse to the cave and
eook himself . breakfast below hs dil
aaRtA1ng sasA