The evening world., 1914-02-25
The Romance of a Girl end an Aviator

The Arst sight Of her fathers clear.
erect. prsciss handwriting warmed
her with Q sudden courage. He had
not set out upon this voyage Of dis
c0very without weighing and expect.
ing the possibilities VI failure and
death. Well he had died, but he had
not failed. He had added Q new
coast line to the map Of the world.
And she knsw--knsw - clearly a. II
his own spirit had stood thsre beside
her talking to her In his old. dearly
remembered voice, that next TO com.
Ing homo alive. bringing the fruitA Of
his discovery with him. his last wish In
the world must have been that that
now--that she. hts daughter. should
hold that very book In her hands
and road the story. and know that he
had not died In vain.
Once she had plunged into the
fascinating narrative. the whole OF the
outside world faded away for her.
0he was oblivious to the fact that the
darkness outside was no longer the
mere darkness Of the fog: oblivious
70 the rising wind that poured IL Icy
stream through the ieAky waila % the
hut and made the candle oicker: %.
ilvieue. svea. - the very sound wish
she had meant 70 walt tsr--the sound
Of Toms voice calling out to her from
the yacht. and the sound OF other
They all fell on deaf care - she
turned page AFTER page OF that
precious record Of her fathers life.
II was written. In the main. In the
scientific. obssrvant. unimpaesioned
temper which she knew 90 w,ll. He
chronicled those days Of peril. when
their ship. crushed In the ics only
kept from sinking BY that very ice
which had just destroyed her. was
drifting along IN the pack. to what
ly and - explicitly - he did the un.
eventful voyage through Behring
Strait. The mans courage Wa %
deeply elemental In him that he could
not be self. conscious about Il.
He told Of the land. the strange.
uncharted shore. whose discovery OF.
tered them . respite at least from
that destruction; told how he got hts
remaining stores ashore and built the
hut, where. In all human probability,
he and his companions were 70 spend
Finally she reached the record OF
the day when he had consigned to the
sea the bottle containing the chart Of
the coast and tho account OF hts
plight, together with the course which
the relief ship must take, should such
Q relief ship DO sent out, to have any
hope at ell Of reaching them.
At the close Of the days entry va
q single line which contracted hes
heart with sharp spasm OF pain
"This u Jeanns's birthday" u SAID;
and came to the point whore the
Walrus people entered into the mar.
rative; their plight their reissue and
their welcome By the three men. who
bU now were the only survivors Of
the original sRpsdition. 49,
Che was reading faster now. with
mono Of those little meditative pause.
that had marked her progress 0!oues
the earlier pages Of the Journal. fol
. the uinistar Termination OF the nara
tive began to f0reshadow itself dark
" from the moment-the nrst mo-
mont Of the appearance Of the Weirul
people ON the scene. Her fAtheri
description OF the man Roscoe. OF the
oppression that had been plain to reaf
IN hie face 20 no had listened TO thu
account OF the gold.bsaring Ledge
across the glacier, gave her . shud'
dering premonition; apparently. he'
father had sxpsFisnoed the same tee!.
Inn himsalf. lay AFTER day HosoeSl
name appeared: Away. eccomRan'ss
n va me next 70 the last entry Il
the journal. She turned the pags
paled and pressed her lipc tight to-
xether when the array OF blank pa@ei
before her told her that she hat
reached the end. Then she read tn
last words her father had ever writ
ten. A..
ledge to-day. Have no heart TO DC,
scribe the scene that they snaSsss
means TO XIII me. II Il wsre not fol
my conviction that the danger from
him 10 largely personal 20 myUslf. tina
ne means me and no other. probably
for his victim. think ] should hevt
him shot e Q measure OF Justihahit
prevention. He 10 not . man. but
great sinister Enthusiastically sinister
for he 10 ieft-handsd. shall vail
Esry ana ncRs tn: . Ss',', may 81 sG S,'
The book slipped out d tue girlt
hands. and she eat. with horror.wSd
> ensd eyes. staring At the candle. Until
; Il guttered and went out. Slowly. IN
outside world began to take IT, plsc'
again around her. She knew that Oh
was shiverinG. half frozen. that ~
Icy wind was whining through tn
. cracks In her rude shelter.
She thought she heard some ON
; moving sbOut outside. eaA thA
: thought brought her quietly % No.
{ feet. She made her way % he doc
Of the hut. called out: waited
! breathlesN inatant-and cried aloud II
: sudden terror.
, CHAPTER VIII.