Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-06-02

| -t,e IN where the stores are hidden in
,s.ber's journal or in the maps?"
He laid down the drum-stick he had
heen about to bite into, and gazed at
ber partly In astonishment, partly in
sort OF amused dismay that the idea
had not occurred to him before THAT
suggestion" he said, is worth the
Whole Of MY days work. OF course
that's the way to begin our search
the only way, and tomorrow morn
ing"
Tomorrow morning, l thought the
worst thing you could possibly say
would be after supper. | wanted to
let the duck go and begin the search
now" She smiled at him. You'll
compromise, won't you, on directly
after SUPPER"
He assented with laugh. IF you
can keep awake. but the first time /
catch you nodding-"
"Al right she said, only let's hur-
nv with the duck Then, little later,
1T can't be possible, can it, that we're
going to eat the whole of it at one
meal? It's beginning to look that
way
There was one compensation to the
rudeness of their fare and the ex-
Equity of their equipment Clearing
I'D after dinner YVES an operation of
extreme simplicity
When it was completed, Philip
r. E,a
/ the glow of the cracking flames they
spread out the maps and began their
search.
q believe" said Cayley, that the
journal will be worth more than the
maps in this search of ours tonight
Anyway, while you work one l can
/ work the other"
She nodded, picked up the journal
4 and crossed over with 1t to another
Of the hunks. There she seated her.
self, tucked her feet up comfortably
under her, tailor-fashion, and, prop
ping her chin upon one palm, began to
u read. The light coming from behind
her made, to Cayley's vision, misty
halo of her hair, and played softly
over the cheek and the fingers that
were half embedded in it.
The sight of her made 1t hard f@r
him to stick to his maps But present
by he looked up with a sudden ques.
ton. Do you happen to find any.
thing he began, and then broke of
shortly.
half oh III
was, he could see that what she had
been reading just then was no mere
description of this land upon which
4 they had been cast away, but some.
thing far more personal to the father
she had lost here
There's something perfectly terri.
flying, she said about fathers de-
scription of this man Roscoe. Over
mere near the end, before the sun
came back to them, he tells of going
out for a walk by himself and of dis
4 covering that Roscoe was stalking
MIN, in the hope. he thought, of dis.
covering, in advance of the others,
where the gold ledge was. In the twi-
Hsht, father says, he looked, in his
white bear-skins, perfectly enormous
and Incredible. And Philip"
She closed the book, holding it tight
IN both hands, and leaning forward a
n''le as she went on, land Philip, his
description sounds-oh, | suppose it's
silly, but it sounds like the thing |
lought | saw today when l was alone
mere on the beach, before you came
Aylng down out of the sky 1t didn't
iooH ike bear 1t wouldn't have
Oeen so dreadful if it had"
It's possible" he said gravely, 1T
may have been he whom | frightened
vi when | came down last night. Ger
amy there was somebody, and that
S'onehody may still be here on shore,
,uoush | supposed he had gone out to
,oH III the attack on the yacht But
as very strange, If there is any one.
ylat We could have passed a whole
0'y without encountering him"
me girl shivered; then, with a
,-"N' OF her head as If dismissing the
~. ar''i'hy thought from her mind, said:
lou started to ask me about some
''"s else, and | interrupted"
1t took him moment to collect his
~, ,Iuushts oh, yes. There's some
l-''s marked here on this map which
,ooh at first for the location of the
au' but 1t appears now that it was
",Aeu before they built it, | wonder
~ ~ !" the early pages of the Journal,
-ele was a description of any natural
W. nation about here like a cave,
one made as if to open the book.
s r.", suddenly, changed her intention
'1u "eId 1t out to him, instead.
COL, haven't been playing fair" she
ht1 wasn't really looking for any
ira1 was Just reading stories and
g., "'"''s over them. It's his hand
lung. ! think, that makes it SO hard
s... W. good Its-wen, almost like
IN. "s ms voice. Won't you work
a.. O'ok and the maps and give me
rl-. ming to do-with my hands,
Oh, | know I'm tired. but that