Part 29 (1/1)

”I--I guess I reat old Just the locating of a bit of whalebone

”You see, my uncle came to the North with two thousand dollars He stayed three years Then the old

That happens often, I'm told Then, one day he came upon the carcass of an immense bowhead whale far north on the Alaskan shore It had been washed ashore by a storm No natives lived near The bone of that whale orth a small fortune He cut it out and buried it in the sand dunes near the beach So eager was he to ristly flesh of that whale until the as done Then he went south in search of a gasoline schooner to bring the treasure away It orth four or five thousand dollars

But he had ht home from Nome delirious

Froathered some notion of a treasure hid away in Alaska The doctor said he would recover in time His family was in need of money I offered to come up here and find out what I could His son was to write me any information he could obtain

We had written one another letters in Greek while in college We decided to do it in this case, addressing one another as Phi Beta Ki

”Apparently my uncle had said too much in his delirium before he left Nome This crooked old ot on my trail

”You know the rest, except that this letter gives the location of the whalebone In the spring I shall go after it”

As he finished, a great, glad feeling of content swept over Marian; she had been right, had made no mistake; the letter was really Phi's Now he had it and all ell

The following day they succeeded in finding a co distance across the Straits, and in due time they arrived safely at the cabin which had been their home

Lucile found a new teacher in her position, but for that she did not care, as she had already decided to spend a month with Marian in Nome, then take the overland trail home

Marian's sketches were received with great enthusiasy Because of her extra efforts in securing the unusual pictures of the Reindeer Chukches, they added a thousand dollars to the agreed price

Phi's search for the buried treasure was successful, and to hi his uncle, now co little business of his own