CHAPTER XVIII

The Cipher Solved Hanleigh made good his escape. Chet Morton and Biff Hooper, who were widely separated at the time, heard the rifle shots and returned posthaste to the cabin, but they did not meet the fugitive. By the time they reached the cabin, further pursuit was out of the question. Looking out the window, Frank pointed to a dark figure hastening across the ice toward the mainland. “By the time we got one of the ice-boats out, he would be on the shore, and we’d never find him there,” he said. “Let him go. We l…