The Tupelo journal., 1912-05-03

while l was getting clear OF my planes.
Yes, that was his chance, and yet he
waited. After we had gone, he ap-
parently scaled the cliff, for his tracks
led right up to it, and then disap
peared. It's not quite SO precipitously
steep there as 1t Is here, But | woul
hardly have dreamed that y human
being could climb it."
He's afraid" said Jeanne after a
little thoughtful silence, simply
afraid. But if he's the man we think
he is, 1t wouldn't be a human fear. 1t
must be superstitious in some way. 1t
wouldn't be wonderful If he felt that,
after the two glimpses he had OF yea
l remember how l felt at first when
you alighted on the foe beside me-.
He's seen you twice, remember. The
first time at night in the fog; the
second time In broad day, with the
sun on your wings. No, 1t isn't
strange If he thinks Of you, not as q
man at all, but as a sort Of terrible
angel keeping guard over me. When
l 60 very long without seeing you, or
when l see you in flight, ] get to think
ing of you in that way myself"
IF that's the way he thinks Of me-"
said Cayley. well try not to disabuse
him. A belief like that is an item on
our side of the ledger, certainly. And
we haven't any such balance in our
favor that we can afford to throw an
advantage away, ever a small n
Really the balance Of advantage be-
tween them and their enemy was
amazingly even. They had the hut.
tAa Enemy the stores. They had Cap
tain Fielding's journal, their enemy
the experience and practical knowl-
edge of the country. They were two,
with but a single weapon between
them. Their enemy, for aught they
knew, might be one or a half a dozen;
and how AIMED, they did not know.
Fortunately, no prophetic vision en-
abled them to anticipate, on that first
evening, the length of time that that
precarious life and death balance
would maintain itself. They had
agreed, Philip and Jeanne, that the
only thing to do was to wait and to
mafRtain an unwinking vigilance. But
both of them thought of the duration
of this wait in terms of hours, or, at
most, days. Had they foreseen that
itewould stretch itself out into weeks
and months, they might well have des-
paired.s
There we're two things that kept
them from succumbing to despair.
The first was that they never really
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES to hope, to in
dulge in any thoughts of a summers
day whsn their horizon she d be vt
by the spars and tunnels u 1 ship
bringing relief. They wers simply
going to I'VE one day At a tins. For
every day that they could snatch out
OF the hand of death. they would give
thanksAN was the only attitude pos
sfble fdf people in their condition.
And the thing that helped them to
maintain It was the abundance Of nee
essary routine occupation. They d.
vided their day into watches. Cayley
slept from four o'clock In the after
noon until midnight and thsD kept
watch alone. as the girl had done, un-
til eight. During that period they re
NAMED inside the hut. The day, from
eight until four, they spent out OF
doors, when the condition of the
weather made this possible, either at
work or merely bampsng up and down
for exercise.
At first theye WAS . sood deal OF
work to do. Tearing down the sheds
which clustered About the hut, and
reducing their frames and plankine
to ire-wood was an ardu0us task, but
he worked at It until It was done
Jeanne standing sentinel all the time