The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1911-07-06

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smasingly even. They had the hut.
IL saeny Tie stores. They had Cap
tai. F1eldiaGs Journal. their enemy
tAs sxpsrisnoe and practical knovi-
eage Il the country. They were two.
With but . siAgls weapon between
them. Their enemy. for aught they
knew. might - one Or hah dosee;
a.A hov arosd. thsy did not know.
Fortunately. no prophetic visios es-
ebas1 thsn to anticipate. a that Arse
svsaing. ths Isagth of time that that
psseasious hfs snA death bala1os
vosA naintain ttseH. They I'D
agreed. PAiliD aal JsaAos. that TIE
eoly thiaS = % vas 70 vait aa1 to
naistaia ~ usvt.htng vigilance. But
botA q tAso thought q tAs durstioo
a tA1s vajt h tseos Of hours. o.. q
oeot. 6ays- Ha1 thsy forsssea that
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pairsA.
Tbsss vsso tvs thiaGD tAat kspt
tAso froo sueeuobtAg - despair.
TAs 1rst vas that thsy nsvsF really
permitted thsnsslvee TO h0ps. to i1-
aulss in any tAoagAts a Q sumnsFs
day vAsa their Aorisoa sAoslA - cut
By he spars end fuansls Of . ship
bringing RELIEF. They were simply
going to Tive 90 cay at . tine. Foe
every day that thsy could snatch out
Of the hard d death. they would give
thanks. Il was the oaly attitude pos
sibls for psopls IN their condition
And the thing that helped them to
maintain II vas The abundance Of nee
essaFy roatins occupation. They d.
vidsd their day into watches. Caylsy
slept fFom four O'Clock In the After
noon until midnight and then Kept
watch aloss. ~ the girl haA done. unr
III eight During that period they ~
mained inside the hut. The day. from
eight until four. they spent out Of
doofs. when the coaditioa Of the
weather made this possible. either at
vosk o. merely tramping up and down
for exercise.
At drst there was . good deal OF
work TO do Tearing down the sheds
which clustered about the hut, and
reducing their frames and planking
to ars-wood was IN arduous task, but
be worked at Il until It was done.
Jeanne standing sentinel all the time.
When It was done. they were prac-
Ideally secure against surprise. for
from their windows. With the aid OF .
heldslass which Cayley had found
In the observatory. they were able to
sweep the whole beach absolutely
clean. in both directions.
And almost every day while the
light lasted. with Jeanne. armed with
the revolver. keeping watch before the
hut. Cayley took to his wings and
patrolled the beach. from the glacier
to the promontory. high up above the
level Of the crest Of the cliR. His
flight was always along the same
track. He never winged his way in
land nor out to sea.
There were two reasons for this.
He dared not 30 % far away from
Jeanne that fash and swoop would
not bring him to her side. Tho other
reason was, that II superstitious fear
Of this great man-bird were really
what deferred their enemy from At
tacking them. It was well to let him
believe that immunity from this Dor.
tent could be secured BY keeping
away from this particular stretch Of
beach.
As the shortening days sped BY and
began to get themselves reckoned into
weeks, the conviction grew upon
Philip and Jeanne that their securest
protection lay IN his wings, In the
terrorising effect upon their invisible,
silent enemy Of the majestic winged
apparition which was 20 often seen
soaring In midsky above the hut and
the little stretch Of beach surrounding
1t. Something was protecting them
evidently. Almost every week brought
some evidence, not only Of the exis-
tence but the nearness Of their enemy.
They never actually caught sight or
sound Of him. but some times when
the wind blew from the right quarter
they could make out, with their field.
glass, a wrack of brownish smoke,
such as would be given on by burning
whale oil. drifting down from some
where along the glacier. and made
visible by the dazzling whiteness of
that background.
And sometimes they saw track In
the newly fallen snow. never coming
very near the hut, but trespassine q
little way. either down from the
glacier or up from the headland, upon
the stretch of beach they were de-
Tending. They never found the tracks
Of more than a single man, and these
were always the same. So that they
came to believe. although they could
not know. that they had only one man
to deal with.
They sometimes speculated on the
question whether he was Roscoe or
some other member of the Walrus
crew: really. In fact. they found 1t
impossible to hope that 1t was any
other than he
They got proof Of his identity, or