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But I made a mistake. A friend I had sent around by the other waterway met me, and told me that I had missed my game. Then I returned to the camp and you were there. You understand this far, M'sieur?" "Yes. Go on." "The friend I had sent brought a letter for Josephine," resumed Jean. "A runner on his way north gave it to him. It was from Le M'sieur Adare, and said they were not starting north.
The Cape Adare locality is a famous penguin rookery, and Campbell's men might for all the world have been erecting their hut on Hampstead Heath during a Bank Holiday, for the penguins gathered in their thousands around them in a cawing, squawking crowd. Penguins are the true inhabitants of Antarctica, and have flourished for countless ages in these parts.
There was almost a pitying look in the half-breed's eyes. "M'sieur, what if in that letter were named people and places: the hospital itself, the doctors, the record of birth? What if it contained all those many things by which the master of Adare might trail back easily to the truth? With those things in the letter would he not investigate? And then " He made a despairing gesture.
For eighteen months I lived along the edges of the Arctic trying to take an impossible census of the Eskimo for the government." "I knew something of the sort when I first looked at you," said Adare. "I can tell an Arctic man, just as I can pick a Herschel dog or an Athabasca country malemute from a pack of fifty. We have much to talk about, my boy. We will be great friends.
When winter comes we are only thirty-five miles, as the sledge-dogs run. I don't like it. You can snow-shoe the distance in a few hours." "I know of such a place far to the west," replied Philip. "Both the Hudson's Bay Company and Reveillon Freres have threatened to put it out of business, but it still remains. Perhaps that is owned by Lang, too." He had joined Adare at the window.
Not until they had finished, and Adare had produced cigars of a curious length and slimness, did the older man ask the question for which Philip had been carefully preparing himself. "Now I want to hear about you," he said. "Josephine told me very little said that she wanted me to get my impressions first hand. We'll smoke and talk. These cigars are clear Havanas.
"The world would give a great deal for what you know," he said. "It would give a great deal for those books, more than I dare to estimate, undoubtedly it would be a vast sum in dollars." Adare laughed softly in his beard. "And what would I do with dollars?" he asked. "I have sufficient with which to live this life here. What more could money bring me? I am the happiest man in the world!"
The door had fallen in with a crash, and now over the crime-darkened portals of the Devil's Nest poured the avengers, with John Adare at their head. "Go!" gasped Jean, almost rising to his knees. "You must meet this Lang before John Adare!" Philip sprang to his feet. The last of the forest people had poured through the door. Alone he stood and stared. But not through the door!
And the waiting men were silent deadly silent as they listened. For they knew that the low Te-dum was the call to death. Their hands gripped harder at the barrels of their guns, and when Kaskisoon and his braves came from behind the rock they faced the smoke above the Devil's Nest, wiped their eyes to see more clearly, and followed John Adare down into the plain.
"It was a terrible thing that we did, and I am sorry sorry " In the quickening of her breath he saw how heroically she was fighting to speak steadily to him. "You can't understand," she resumed, facing him with the steadiness of despair. "You cannot understand until you reach Adare House.
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