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" After Centuries of Failure." Lloyd put down the paper with a note of laughter. "Suppose you should read it some day." Bennett subsided with a good-humoured growl. "You did scare me for a moment. I thought I thought " "I did scare you? Why were you scared? What did you think?" She leaned toward him eagerly. "I thought well oh that some other chap, Duane, perhaps " "He's still at Tasiusak.
"Oh!" she cried, "listen to this!" and continued: "'Word has been received at this place of the safe arrival of the arctic steamship Curlew at Tasiusak, on the Greenland coast, bearing eighteen members of the Duane-Parsons expedition. Captain Duane reports all well and an uneventful voyage.
Should the entrance to the sound still be encumbered with ice as late as July, which is by no means impossible, Captain Duane will be obliged to spend another winter at Tasiusak or Upernvick, consuming alike his store of provisions and the patience of his men." There was a silence when Lloyd finished reading. Bennett chipped at the end of his second egg. "Well?" she said at length.
This may be later than Captain Duane supposes, as the whalers who have been working in the sound during the past months bring back news of an unusually early winter and extraordinary quantities of pack-ice both in the sound itself and in Kane Basin. This means a proportionately late open season next year, and the Curlew's departure from Tasiusak may be considerably later than anticipated.
They are going to winter at Tasiusak, and try to get through the sound as soon as the ice breaks up in the spring. But Duane's ideas are all wrong. He'll make no very high northing, not above eighty-five. I'll bet a hat. When we go up again, sir, will you will you let me will you take me along? Did I give satisfaction this last " "I'm never going up again, Adler," answered Bennett.
She drew the shawls closer about him and rearranged the pillows under his head, and then sat down on the steps near at hand. "Tell me about this Captain Duane," she began. "Where is he now?" Bennett yawned and passed his hand across his face, rubbing the sleep from his eyes. "What time is it? I must have slept over an hour. Duane? Why, you saw what the paper said. I presume he is at Tasiusak."
It is his intention to pass the winter at Tasiusak, collecting dogs and also Esquimau sledges, which he believes superior to European manufacture for work in rubble-ice, and to push on with the Curlew in the spring as soon as Smith Sound shall be navigable.
There was no hope that she would advance northward until the following summer. The collier, which had not been beset, had returned to Tasiusak with the news of the failure. "What a galoot! What a a professor!" exclaimed Adler with a vast disdain. "Him loafing at Tasiusak waiting for open water, when the Alert wintered in eighty-two-twenty-four! Well, he's shelved for another year, anyhow."
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