The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-06

board which the four walls of the hut
contained. When they returned TO
the living room where the fire was.
she dropped down-on one of the hunks
with a little sigh OF fatigue.
You've been disobeying orders. he
said. looking her over With a serious
sort OF smile. you've let yourself
get too tired. You'll have TO make
up for It by being exceptionally obedi-
ent now"
AS he spoke, be shook out the sleep.
ins-bag on the bunk, behind where
she was sitting,
You're to lie down on that" he
said s'until can get supper ready:
and directly after supper you're TO
take this bag into whichever OF those
bedrooms you would like for yours,
and really undress and 90 to bed
She assented. to that after little
demur. That he had rightly guessed
the degree OF her fatigue Was attested
by the fact that when he re-entered
the hut after dressing the fowl that
waa to provide their evening meal he
found her cnddled up upon the great
sheepskin. fast asleep.
/ 1T was not until his rudimentary
culinary operations were about ,om.
pleted that. glacinE over to where she
lay, he found her regarding him with
q sleepy smile.
II thought OF something just as I
was dropping OF to sleep" she said.
"a really beautiful idea. | tried to
call out and tell you, but | was too
sleepy hope L. haven't lost it. II
vas something about-oh. know.
Don't you suppose we might fnd 4
clue to where the stores are hidden in
fathers journal or in the maps?"
He laid down the drum-stick he had
been about to bite into. and gazed at
her. partly in astonishment. partly In
q sort OF amused dismay that the idea
had not occurred to him before. That
suggestion" he said, lis worth the
whole OF my days work. or course
that's the way to begin our search
the only way, and tomorrow morn
ing
Tomorrow morning! thought the
worst thing you could possibly say
would be after supper wanted to
let the duck 30 and begin the search
new" She smiled at him. You'll
compromise. won't you, on directly
after SUPPER,
He asssnted with laugh. orIf you
can keep awake. but the FIRST time
catch you nodding"
All right" she said, "only let's hur-
~ with the duck Then. a little later,
ut can't be possible. can II. that we're
going to eat the whole of 1t 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
up after dinner. was an operation Of
extreme simplicity.
When 1t was completed, Philip
heaped more wood on the fire, and in
the glow Of the cracking names they
spread out the maps and began their
search.
Il believe said Cayley. that the
Journal will be worth more than the
maps In this search Of ours tonight
anyway. while you work one / can
work the other
She nodded. picked UP the journal
and crossed over with II to another
Ut the bunks. There she seated her.
self. tucked her feet up comfortably
under her. tailor-fsshion, and, prop
ping her chin upon one palm, began to
read. The light coming from behind
her made, to Cayleys vision, a 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 It hard for
him to stick to his maps But present
~ he looked up with sudden ques
ton. DO you happen to find any.
thing" he began. and then broke on
shortly.
From her face, haIf-shaded as II
was. he could sees that what she had
been reading just then was no mere
description of this land upon which
they had been cast away, but some
thing far more personal to the father
she had lost here.
There's something perfectly terri
Tying, she said. about fathers de-
scription OF this man Roscoe. Over
nere near the end, before the sun
came back to them. he tells OF going
out for a walk by himself and OF dis.
covering that Roscoe was stalking
him, in the hope. he thought, Of dis
covering, in advance of the others.
where the gold ledge was. In the twi-
light, father says. he looked, In hts
white bear-skins, perfectly enormous
and incredible. And Philip
She closed the book, holding IL tight
in both hands. and leaning forward q
little as she went on. "and Philip. his
description sounds-oh. suppose it's
silly, but II sounds like the thing
thought | saw today when was alone
there on the beach, before you came
fyinn down out of the sky. II didn't
look like bear. II wouldn't have
been so dreadful II 1t had"
It's possible" he said gravely. IT
may have been he whom frightened
of when ] came down last night. Ger
tainly there was somebody. and that
somebody may still be here on shore,
though ] supposed he had gone out TO
join in the attack on the yacht But
it's very strange, II there Is aGy cHe.
that We could hava naaSed a whole
day without encountering him."
The girl shivered; then. with a
shake Of her head as II Diminishing the