Panther Eye
nds of other days, David Tower and Jarvis, one-time skipper and engineer of the submarine in that
private expedition to go north in search of the fabled City of Gold, the gleam of whose domes they had glimpsed, was not to be thought of. When, therefore, they had discovered that men were being signed for a
But ever and again, as he straightened up to ea
y of Gold. I 'ates to think how rich we'll be. We'll buy reindeer or dogs from the bloody, bloom
ways smiled
w with all of life before him, had been "bumped off." It was their duty to determine, if pos
de the quiet form while the young
ip, drip, drip of water from the warm spring and the almost inaudible t
tor straightene
body," he announced, "
ase?" sugge
re hard on bad hearts. Langlois was exceptionally well equipped in this matter. Indeed, he told me that he had climbed Moun
suggeste
e of that, one must make a post-mortem examinati
forbidding interior of the mine toward the
ock. Again, it seemed to him that he caught the gleam of a round, yellow ball of light, such as one sees when looking toward a cat in the dar
that it was less distinct here than it had been further back in the mine. But of this he could not be sure. It might easily be that
e next day in the grave that had been picked and blasted out of the
on the other side, lay the equally unmeasured expanse of snow-whitened land. Far in the distance stretched the endless chain of mountains, which to-day seemed to smoke with the snow blown a quarter mile above their summits. In the
wned. He had thought that all his men stood with uncovered heads. One did not. The man who had b
lips. "Pshaw!" he whispered to himself, "there's troubl
d been brought up in the Church of England, read a
shes and du
rth on the rude box coffin to
away, leaving only two
t a great need to think. There was to be no
against the white background. Short, but square-shouldered and
a leader among his fellows. Johnny was a good example to others, but no prude. He had played a fast quarter on the football team, and had won for himself early renown and many medals
e output of these mines went to the homeless starving ones of the most hopelessly wrecked nation on the face of the earth. And though for the most part they were rough men,
ainst them. To the southwest were the radical Bolsheviki, who, obtaining knowledge of these rich deposits of gold, might start a land force across country to secure this much needed medium of exchange. T
freely and gladly joined the expedition. His heart swelled w
er Chukches or Russians. Could it be charged to some treacherous member of their own group? Johnny hated
died. Ah, well, there were six other mines, some of them probably as rich. They could be worked. But was this peril to follow them into these? Was his who
At first he thought it a raven. But at last, with a little circle,
sly. As he came close, his l
graphic
l, then to the right and lef
rom the sky,"
phonograph in their outfit. This was doubtless o
t once that it was not one of their own, for it was a
away by some native. Take it down and
an making his w
re assembled around the long table and were he
d brought home a new record for the phonograp
ed Dave Tower, all interest at
Johnny, "but I be
hly but comfortably furnished with homemade easy chairs, benche
ny, after winding the machine, carefully placed the disk in position, adj
tle and thump as the needle
eyes strained, when from the woody th
on the dead
and a bott
and the da
is better
ne appeared to
e faces of the men. Bu
on the dead
and a bott
and the da
is better
ed over Johnny's face. The same song was repea
ere was something uncanny about this record which had drifted in from nowhere with its son
make of it?" John
ges from 'is departed ones through the medium of a slate. 'Oo's to say spirits can't tal
g. In a land such as this, eve
ves," suggested Dave Tower. "They'd take it for something to eat, but, when they tried boiling it an
he's a sailor, you'll have to a
that this was sent as a warning not from the spirit world, but from some living person. Who that pers
make out of th
in his deer-skin b