Towering among the shivering beasts, he stood like a man of marble. Every line of his handsome, high-featured face seemed graven. Only his tawny eyes smoldered. They were fixed on a small cairn, reared of rocks at the cliff brink. The tattered remnant of a small American flag whipped from a bit of ice-coated stick at the top of the cairn.
Beneath it a slab of wood had been made fast in the rock, and on its face a careful hand had carved a simple, fateful legend:
IN MEMORIAM
ZENAS WRIGHT, A.C.S.
POLARIS JANESS, Adventurer
JAMES PARKERSON, seaman
Of the Sardanian Relief Expedition, Who
Perished in the Snows in November, 1923.
Erected by orders, Captain James Scoland,
Commanding Cruiser Minnetonka
Moment succeeded moment. Still the man stood in the biting tempest, his eyes fixed ste
