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Updated: June 24, 2025
There seemed no possibility of their escaping from the gulf by cutting their way out. It was the aged scientist who again put heart in the party when Andy Sudds and Phineas Roebach brought back the report of this catastrophe. "We must not give up hope," declared Professor Henderson, cheerfully. "We have lost what work has been done on the ice-wall, it is true. But we can begin again."
"At least, a part of Alaska we do not know how much of that territory, or how much other territory with it is no longer a part of the sphere called the earth." Phineas Roebach looked at the old scientist as though he thought the latter had taken leave of his senses. But Jack Darrow leaped to the right conclusion.
Roebach sprang between his Aleuts and his visitors and began to harangue them angrily in their own harsh dialect. However, his huge body so entirely sheltered Mark and Andy that neither was much terrified by the Indians. Besides, the Maine hunter advanced his own rifle and calculated he could do considerable execution with it while the red men were hesitating.
Of one thing we are sure we have air to breathe, water to drink, there are wild animals to kill for food, vegetation exists; we are, in fact, upon a miniature world which is not much different from that we have left as yet, at least." "All that sounds mighty fine," interrupted Phineas Roebach. "And I expect you believe it all, Professor Henderson.
"Something has scared them fellers," Andy declared. "The traders?" suggested Jack, who traveled with the old hunter and Mark on one sled, while Roebach, Wash and Professor Henderson sailed on the other. "Not hardly. Men wouldn't scare them critters so. Something bigger and uglier than the wolves themselves, I reckon."
There were enough of the savage beasts in the rear to make this last impossible. "Come ahead!" yelled Andy Sudds to Phineas Roebach, who guided the second sled. "Don't stop." Jack and Mark, with the old hunter, were on the first sled. They were armed with magazine rifles, and all seized these and prepared to fight for their lives.
"We'll fill every barrel and be ready to sail home with our hatches battened down when the sea comes back," declared Captain Sproul. "And you are quite sure the ocean will return and float your bark?" queried the scientist, patiently, for he saw that it was quite as useless to explain what had happened to this hard-headed old sea-dogas it was to talk to Phineas Roebach.
The hunter grabbed his rifle and looked where Jack pointed. At once he seemed relieved. "The wolves," he said. "They know their way out of this valley. I don't want to travel on this ice any longer than I can help." With a word to the professor, and taking Roebach with him, the old hunter made a determined charge into the brush at the lurking wolves.
I don't feel like joining you in the foolish factory yet awhile." "I more than half believe the darkey's right," muttered Phineas Roebach. "This experience is enough to turn the brain of any man. I don't myself believe half the things we are seeing." The heat of the sun, as soon as it had well risen, was a fact that could scarcely be doubted, however.
But in time we shall fall into one or the other greater bodies of our system of that end there can be no possible doubt." The stern and uncompromising statement of Professor Henderson relating to the awful fate that had overtaken his friends and Phineas Roebach was so uncompromising almost brutal that not a word was spoken for several minutes. Even Washington White was dumb.
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