The Tupelo journal., 1912-04-26

1910 ey the CENTURY CO
1910 ~ THE SUCCESS CO

Oh TIC uSdP VI pCuI ohino W f"
him.
She had no means Of measuring the
time, and 1t seemed a perfectly in
terminable while before she heard
Cayley returning down the ice chin
ney. Had she known how long it real
ly was. she would have been justified
in feeling seriously worried about aim
but not knowing, she attributed the
seeming duration of his delay to the
tedium. of sitting in the dark. with
nothing to do. Even at that, she was
conscious of a feeling OF relief when
she heard him call out to her once
more, cheerfully, albeit somewhat
hollowly, from the chimney's mouth:
Jeanne, where are you?"
Here, Just where you left me"
Here! All the while! You must
/ be half frozen. I've been gone the
better part of an hour"
81 didn't know how long it was, and
1 kept thinking you'd be back any
minute. But where in the
! world have you been?"
BY the time she asked that question
they had CROPPED their way back into
the storeroom and thence into the liv-
ing room Of the hut, and by now she
vas looking at him In the full light OF
day.
j Hz dropped down, with a rather Ell
plosive sigh, upon one Of the hunks,
and poked tentatively at his thighs
and shoulders Is If they were numb
with fatigue. :.
IT think by q reasonable estimate"
he said, that chimney is five miles
high. ! kept going and going and go
ing, till / began to believe that there
wasn't any end to it; or that, by some
magic or other, 1 slipped down a
yard as often as / went up me-. But
did get to the end at last; and III
give you a thousand guesses as to
what l found there"
THE observatory" she hazarded.
ooh! but not really? I did not mean
that for an honest guess at all. 1t was
Just the first thing that came into my
head. But how could they pull the
pilot house of the Phoenix up through
that little hole in the ice?"'
s'"f'Well to tell the truth, l don't be-
lieve they did," he answered with
I hooking seriousness. Its more like
!, ly. that theystook it to pieces, and then
| rigged a boom and tackle up at the
cliff-head and hauled it up outside.
But when they got, it up there they
put it together again right across the
assure, and then tunnelled down, or
up, the whole depth of the elm. II
must have taken them weeks to do 1t,
| and when 1t was done they had an in.
side connection between 1t and the
hut, SO that they were quite indepen'
dent of the weather. And 1t must
have been a great place to make OBJ
servations from"
Have been!" she echoed question
ingly. Isn't 1t now"
mo, because It's all showed and
frozen in. It's buried, i don't know
how many feet deep by this time, and
dark. of course, rs a pocket. But
everything inside is quite undisturbed
/ doubt if a single member Of the wal
rus crew ever saw 1t, or even sus
pected that such a place existed"
He unbuttoned his Jacket and tool
from an inner pocket a scrap OF Pc
per.
Being a methodical person" he ex
planned. II made ar inventory. It's
really quite a respectable list"
She seated herself beside him or
the bunk as if tt read the paper.
81 imagine you will need an inter
prefer" he said. i've half forgotten
what these tracks mea myself. MY
| hands were so stiff with the cold II
wasn't very easy to write. But thai
first word is telescope. And theI
there are the meteorological instru
ments, barometers, thermometers, and
so on. and the Phoenix's compass, sex
tant and chronometer. a microscope
a parafine oven and a big chunk Of
|. parafine, an oil lamp, a five-gallon car
about half full Of oil. and a small
stove. There vas a ~providential treas
ure for me in the form of q razor
which they used, I suppose, for cutting
microscopic sections with. I'm glac
they hadn't q microtone to do 1t prop
erly."
you didn't md a comb for me. die
your she asked. Because, unlesl
you did, or until you do, you won1
be allowed to use the razor"
Il suppose I could make you one
on q sort OF one. 1t would be genuine
ivory, anyway"
He had come. apparently. to the end
Of the list.
Well" she sa3A. Il suppo,e W
might ind something to do with n
most any one Of those things; sou'
Of them will be useful. ceytafnly- AM
Ks pleasant, somehow, to think Of oul
little pilot house, all showed IN. VI
there on the clif-head. and OF U IN
side passage leading up to 1t"
That's quite true" he said. i sup
pose it's all romantic nonsense, but
does give one a certain feeling OF se
security. However" he Q
on, we're not reduced as yet to any
thing as intangible as that as q sui
ject for giving thanks. You haven
seer the whole Ct my list yet. w
saved the best till the last"