The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-03-28

everything inside Is quite undlsturbed
| doubt II single member Of the Wal.
rus crew ever saw Il. or even sus-
pected that such place existed"
lie unbuttoned his jacket and took
from an inner pocket a scrap OF pa.
per.
Being a methodical person" he ex'
planned. Il made an inventory. It's
really quite respectable list"
She seated herself beside him on
the bunk as II to read the paper.
Il imagine you will need an inter
prefer" he said. I've half forgotten
what these tracks mean myself. MY
hands were so stir with the cold II
wasn't very easy TO write. But that
first word Is telescope And then
there are the meteorological instru-
ments. barometers. thermometers. and
so on. and the Phoenix's compass. sex
tant and chronometer. a microscope.
a paraffino oven and a big chunk OF
paraflne. an oil lamp a fye-gallon can
about half full of oil. and small
stove. There was proyidential treas
ure for me in the form OF razor.
which they used. | suppose. for cutting
microscopic sections with. I'm glad
they hadn't microtone to do 1t prop
erly."
You didn't find a comb for me. did
you?" she asked. because. unless
YOU did. or until you do. you won't
be allowed to use the razor"
Il suppose I could make you one.
or a sort OF one. II would be genuine
ivory, anyway"
He had come. apparently. to the end
OF the list.
Well" she said, Il suppose we
might find something to do with al
most any one OF those things: some
OF them will be useful. certainly. And
it's pleasant. somehow. TO think OF our
little pilot house. all showed In, up
there on the clitf head. and OF our In
side passage leading up to II"
That's quite true" he said Il sup
pose it's all romantic nonsense. but Il
does give one a certain feeling OF Sc
security. However" he went
on, we're not reduced as yet to any
thing as intangible as that as sub
ject for giving thanks. You haven
seen the whole OF my list yet. I've
saved the best till the last"
He turned the paper over In his
hand as be spoke. She did not attempt
to read what he hid written. but sat
there beside him. her hands clasped
about one knee. her eyes upon the
booted foot which was poised across
the other, and waited rather tensely
for him to tell her.
IT'S not 80 very much. but II VIII
mean an immense lot 10 us. What
people die OF in the arctic IL not SC
often disease or accident, or even. di
rectly. cold or starvation. They DIE
more often OF disgust and WEAKNESS
and exhaustion. Your father kne"
that, and he set apart from his gen
eral stores some luxuries and delica
cies, or things that would seem to be
such to men in their plight, to be used
against emergency. I'm sure that's
why he took them up there and hid
tnem away IdIl VI Nhthi bi' 'i''
wish he could have known to whom
they were going to be OF use. There 1
little cask with brandy In II. good
sized pot nearly full Of beef extract,
jar Of dried eggs. three tins OF con
densed milk. big ten-pound box o.
! Albert biscuit"
His voice broke of there sharply
but without the downward infection
she would have expected had hi
reached the end. So she looked quick
Iy and curiously up into his face. Al
quickly, her eyes sought the bit OF pa
per which still lay open in his hand.
You didn't finish." she said "Ther'
was something else"
81 thought too late. OH IT'S moth
ing, but Il caught me-rather and
thought would spare you the twing'
that finding Il had given me. nigh
better have read Il right out. II wa
a big plum pudding, In a tin. yo'
knoy-Cross & Blackwelis. But Their