The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1912-03-08

Ing distance through It. WHeH yoo
cried out Just now, couldn't tell
whether you were 80 feet below me or
500 feet. l was up above 1t, you see,
and hadn't any way Of telling how
deep it was.-Therel Do you hear?"
he went on. 1.-THE firing has stopped
altogether Your people are almost
certainly safe"
will you let me go inside this hut"
he asked, land see II II Is habitable!
II II is, you'd better go in and let me
make you as comfortable as l can. l
don't think you need have any fears
about the Walrus people, And worry
Ing wouldn't do any good any way.
There's nothing we can do but wait
for daylight. Nothing can haEpsn any
where until then"
He had, very distinctly, in mind
what might happen then II the WArus
people were repulsed frem the yacht.
Unless they were all destroyed In the
attack, they would undoubtedly make
trouble as soon as morning revealed
the fact that they had two hostages
in their hands. But he could tight
them, off better from the doorway OF
the hut than from anywhere else. And
there was no need of troubling the
girl with that consideration, not Tor
the present, at least.
"It's all right in there" she said
81 spent don't know how many
hours there reading before you came.
But the candle has burned out"
The open door behind them gave &C
cess into tiny shed, protruding from
the corner of the hut and serving, evil
IDENTIFY, as a vestibule for 1t. The IN
ner door, a heavier and stronger af-
fair, opening at right angles to 1t,
gave access to the interior of the hut.
Cayely switched on his bulls-eye
and cast a brief glance about the
room. There we're two or three rude,
fimsy-looking doors which undoubted-
" opened into small, cabin-like bed
rooms; but the principal part of the
hut was taken up by the room In
which they found themselves.
Cayley set his little bull-eye on
shelf where they could make the most
of its thin pencil Of light: He then
turned his attention to the door, and
after a little struggle succeeded in
getting it shut, and, what was more,
securely bolted, by means of heavy
wooden bar which dropped into an
iron crotch. II they were attacked
with the first of the daylight, this
place would AFFORD them security until
the people from the Aurora could
come to their rescue. His revolver
was a Colt, As, and his belt was full OF
cartridges With that weapon, he re-
membered that he had once been con-
sidered the best shot in the army.
The girl, when he turned to look at
her, was seated on the edge Of bunk
at the other side Of the hut Her pal
Tor, the traces Of tears he could see
in her eyes, the pathetic droop to her
lips, all emphasized the thing her
voice had told him already. namely,
that some emotional crisis, which
she had been through in those recent
hours. had Left her quite exhausted.
without q word, he turned to his
bundle which he had deposited IN
corner Of the room, and fshed out
from it his sheepskin sleeping bag 1t
was not until he approached her with
it across his arm, that his eye fell
upon the rosewood box and the mo-
rocco-bound book which lay beside It
Her eye followed his They're IA
Tiers papers," she said. Il found the
box in here That's why / stayed. !
had come ashore"
wait minute" he interrupted. He
took up the book with a gentlenes3
almost reverent, laid it in the little
chest and set it down on the floor be-
side the bunk.
The quality of the act brought tha
too ready tears to her eyes, but ne did
not look up at her to surprise them
there. Now he said, I'm going to
take off these boots of yours, which
are vet, but which will serve excel
lently. nevertheless for pillow, and
YOU are to take OF that heavy coat
and get inside this bag Have you ever
slept In oneT
I1C W DIS I'LL O1Qy tQ66AhS eSe OA~O
the boots, and her protest went un-
heeded-it was only a half-hearted
protest after all.
When he had taken of the boots,
she submitted, without demur, to his
unfastening the frogs on her heavy
seal-skin coat and slipping 1t on her
shoulders.
When finally, with some assistance
from him, she nestled down inside the
great neecelined beg, when he had
rolled her small boots into bundle
and made a pillow Of them for her
head, as he had said he would. she
exclaimed, half-rebelliously, at the
comfort of II all
ut is so deliciously warm and soft"
she said. II didn't know you were
Just being q luxurious sybarite when
you refused mattress and pair OF
blankets on the yacht. II only you
could be warm, too, and comfortable. :"
IT shall be-" he assured her. I'll
make q cushion Of that great coat OF
yours and sit down here at the foot
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