Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-06-15

She took down his pocket electric
bull's-eye from the shelf behind her,
held out q hand to him and, on tip
toe, led him, with a 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 bull's-eye for a second, apparently
to make sure that she had chosen the
right point in the wall, then, letting
go his hand, she stopped and picked
up a stick Of fire-wood which lay at
her feet. With this she struck pretty
hard upon the planking. The sound
which the blow gave forth was as
hollow as a drum.
Cayley started. "A cave!" he ex-
claimed. "A cave here!-Oh, l see.
It's a cold cellar they made by cutting
a hole in the ice that filed the f1ssure.
And why do you suppose they boarded
1t up?"
The girl laughed de%lightedly. Evil
IDENTIFY she had not, as yet, developed
the whole Of her discovery. She
flashed on the light again.
Look" she commanded.
In the center Of a little circle of
wall which the bull's-eye now illum-
mated Cayley saw the barrel Of a
rusty hinge.
"You see," she went on, cts a door,
and they only nailed it up the other
day. There's a nail-head somewhere
here that's quite bright. l caught the
CLINT Of it while l was ~rummaging be-
fore breakfast, and that was what
made me look"
Cayley darted back into the living
room, returning almost instantly with
the broken-handled pick.
In less than a minute, with q pro
testing squawk, the rude door swung
open, and they saw before them just
what Cayley had predicted. A rather
high, but narrow cavity, the sides OF
which were the naked rock of the
cliff, but the floor and ceiling solid
ice.
Despite the fact that the girls ex-
element over the discovery Of the
cave had, for a moment, carried Cay
ley along with 1t, he was not greatly
surprised, and not at all cast down
when, at the end Of five minutes of
hasty exploration, 1t was made evil
dent to them that the ample supply Of
stores which they sought was not to
be found here.
Jeanne herself would not, perhaps,
have entertained SO high a hope had
she learned of the reference to the
other ave which Cayley found In the
journal before she herself had CHANGED
upon the mouth of this AS it
was, his theory that the stores were
to be found in a ave vaguely situated
along the glacier, made little impress
sion upon her, she was SO sure that
they had been right here, under their
hands.
When their investigation made II
clear that whether he was right OF
not, certainly she was wrong, she was
bitterly disappointed. Cayley was
aware of that, even as they stood
here, side by side, with nc light to see
her face by. She said nothing, OF
very little, but he knew, nevertheless
that for just this moment all the life
and courage had gone out OF her;
knew that the slight figure there, SC
close beside him, was dropping, trem
bling a little.
He laid a steady hand upon hel
shoulder. Almost instantly, under his
touch, she turned to him, caught with
both hands at the unbottoned edges Of
the rough wooden jacket he wore, and
sobbing a little now and then, but 9th
erwise in silence, simply chung to him
He did not offer, with his arms, tc
draw her any closer, to turn what was
a mere instructive appeal to the protec
ton Of his strength and courage, into
an embrace. He kept a hand on each
of her shoulders, more by way of sup
port than anything else. and waited
a moment before he spoke.
after all" he said at last what
we've got here Is just so much cleal
gain, and 1t will be immensely valu
able to us, though 1t isn't what we ex
pected. The fact that 1t Is their super
fluffy, the things they hadn't any par
ticular or immediate s for, doesn't
make what we've found here any the
less valuable to us. That pile Of beai
skins there will supply what is, at THU
moment. the most vital Of our wants
That big sack appears to contain
feathers; and those walrus tusks will
serve any number of purposes--forks
and spoons for one thing. As to thai