Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-15
Copyright. 1910. by Tho Century Co.
Copyright, I9lA by The Success 70.
CHAPTER XV.-Continued.

why, I found an unmistakable ref
erence to it, and though the exact To-
cation wasn't given, it was plain that
three or four hours exploring by day
light would enable us to find it. But
even if | hadn't minded leaving you
asleep here, unprotected, in the hut, |
doubt very much if | could have found
1t at night. But what's the mystery
you were about to reveal to me-"
NO" she said tell me more about
you discovery first. What was the
reference in the %journal?"
He rose and took down from the
shelf the big leather-bound volume
which was proving itself, with every
hour, their greatest treasure.
IT'S oven here, toward the end, he
said, in that last winter when the
Walrus came-oh, here we are"
He seated himself on the bunk be-
side her, and began to read.
March 10th.-We have just spent
an arduous and fearful week upon
the task of unloading the wreck Of the
whaler. The weather has been severe
bitterly cold (-10 degrees Fahren-
heit being the mildest) and three
quarters of a gale blowing most of the
time. The men are inclined to be re-
bellious over my driving them out to
work in such weather, but ! dared not
wait for it to moderate.
when the ice opens round the
whaler, she will go down like a plum
met; and if that event should have
happened before we unloaded her OF
her stores, our plight would have been
utterly desperate. OF stores in the
ordinarily accepted sense, she had put
a scanty supply, and those of a mis-
erably inferior description; but she
contained half a 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 a hand
tackle, sledged them ashore along the
foe and the crown of the glacier tc
Moseley's cave, which seemed to be
the most convenient place to store
them temporarily"
Cayley laid down the book ant
turned to the girl.
That's the place, I'm perfectly
sure" he said. 1T evidently face!
the glacier, but it NUT be very neal
the beach, for they wouldn't have
hauled those barrels any further thai
necessary
is that all he says about it?"
ITS all he says directly, but there
a reference just a little further aloni
which made me all the surer l wa
right. Let's see."
He opened the book again and raj
his eye down the page. a hundred
weight or so of s%permaeeti and tw'
barrels of sperm oil we took directl'
to the hut-here, this is what wa
looking for.
1.-THE knowledge we get by expert
ence often comes too late to be of an,
great service to us. l made som
mistakes in stripping the Phoenix
which | should not repeat now. Flo
instance, carrying her pilot house
with infinite labor, up to the Cliff
head for an observatory. 1t is thol
oughly impracticable for this purpose
I doubt If have visited it three time
since Mr.. Moseley's death"
He was the astronomer and botar
list of fathers expedition" said tn
girl.
Cayley read on: "But now that
have learned my lesson, | have nu
little to apply the knowledge to. In
Walrus is, l believe, the most utteri
wretched hulk that ever sailed tn
seas-ill-found, d~etestably dirty an
literally rotting to pieces. We shal
however, get enough planks and tin
hers out of her to build a shed or tW
near the hut, for the more converter
storage of our supplies
Again he closed the book. That
what I was looking for" he said. "Yc
see they brought that stuff down fro
the cave to these sheds; SO the cay
would he almost inevitably the fir
hiding place they would think