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lasted three days. Ills suffering was
intense. His arm. the seat Of throb-
hing pain, had swollen to twice the
natural SIZE. while his side prevented
his taking Il full breath voluntarily.
Re had paid no attention to his own
hurts. and It was either the vigor of Il
constitution that years of dissipa ton
had not impaired or some antifcbrile
property of the bear meat or the alb
sence of the exciting whisky that won
the battle He refunded the fire with
his last match on the evening Of the
third day and looked around the dark
ening horizon, sane, but feeble in body
and mind.
If n sail had appeared in the interim
he had not seen it, nor was there one
in sight now. Too weak to climb the
slope. he returned to the boat. where
the child, exhausted from fruitless cry
ing. was now sleeping. His unskillful
and rather heroic manner Of wrapping
it up to protect it from cold had no
doubt contributed largely to the clos
ing of its wounds by forcibly keeping
largely to its present suffcrings He
looked for moment on the wan,
tear stained little face, with rs fringe
of tangled curls peeping above the
wrappingS of canvas. and, STOPPING
painfully down. kissed it softly. but
the kiss awakened it, and it cried for
It's mother. He could not soothe it,
4 h., TIL,
wordless curse against destiny yelling
up from his heart he left il and sat
down on the wreckage at some dis.
lance away.
We'll very likely get WE'LL" he
unused gloomily, unless let the fire
go out. What then: We can't last
longer than the berg and not much
longer than the bear. We must he ont
Of the tracks. We were about 900
miles out when we struck. and the
current sticks to the fog belt here
about west-sou' west-but that's the
surface water. These deep fellows
have currents Of their own. There's
no fog. We must be 20 the southwark
of the belt-between the lanes. They'll
run their boats in the other lane after
this. l think-the money grabbing
wretches. Curse them If they've
drowned her Curse them, with their
water tight compartments and their
logging Of the lookouts. Twenty four
boats for 5000 people, dashed down
with tarred grippe lashings. thirty men
to clear them away and not an AK on
the boat deck or a sheath knife on a
man. Could she have got away? If
they got that boat down they might
have taken her in from the steps, and
the mate knew l had her child. He
would tell her. Her name must be
Myra too. 1t was her voice heard
IN that dream. That was hasheesh
What did they drug ME for? But the
whisky was all right. It's all done
with now unless l get ashore, but
will II"
The moon rose above the castellated
structure to the left, flooding the icy
beach with ashen gray light. sparkling
in thousand points from the cas-.
cades, streams and ripping pools.
throwing into backest shadow the gull
lies and hollows and bringing to his
mind IN spite of the weird beauty of
the scene crushing sense of loneli-
ness-of littlcncss--as though the vast
pile of inorganic desolaton which held
him was OF far greater importance
than himself and all the hopes, plans
and fears OF his lifetime The child
had cried itself 10 sleep again, and he
paced IT, ana down the ice.
up there" he said moo6ily, looking
into the sky, where Il few stars shone
family in the Hood from the moon
up there - somewhere - they don't
know Just whcre-bui somewhere I'D
above, is inc Christians heaven. Up
there Is their good God, who la. a. c-d
MyrG's child here-t-nelr goOs Cod
md Gown below Us, somewhere again.
ire their bell and their had god, when
they inveDted themselves. I'D they
give lbs oGr choice -he6ven or hell Il
J. nN so--not 50. Tho greet mystery
Is not solved. The hullan heart 10 not
haA3ed 10 this way. No good, merctful
God crested this world or It's condi
tlous. Whatever may be the nature of
the caus9s at work beyond our menta,
vis1no. one fact 10 Individually proved
that the qualities Of mercy. g0odbess,
3usticA play no past In the governments
scheme And yet tscy say abe core Of
nll Religions OH earth il the bcliet in
lhlA Is IL, or is II :he cowardly, hr-
mnn fesr Of the unsno WI that iMpels
the savage NM her to throw her babe
to 1rr.~&&i~. tA tmpss the civilized
man 10 eacsow churches, that has kept
IN eS,sswre from the beginning = ciaAs
Of ssosnsnyrrs. medicine men, priests
and elergymeo, al living on tho hoc,ss
ard fears excited By themselves?
And people pray millions Of them
and claim they are answered. Are
thor Was ever sopplication sent into
that SKI by troubled humanity an
sworod a. svsa heard Who knows :
TfN0 psay for rain aud sunshine, and
b1eA some Ia tins. They pray for
health qua ~Iocsss, and both are but
natural N tho marching OF events,
This % not evidence. But they say that
thW know. By spiritual uplifting. that
they are heard and cOmf0rted aud an
swsrsd ct the moment. Ia not this Q
physiological experiment. Wouid they
nos fasl equally tranquil II they re-
psated the multiplication table or box
cd the cs,npasst
millions have believed thls-,that
Prayors are ans wersd--aad these mil