-- FOR EVER. Friday November 13, 1914 Our old brawler is with us again. (Earl?) Last night I went out at midnight x The black sky sharpened as my eyes first the inside lights - Arcturus unblinking red and blue lead me to a faint glow above the ice-cap. From the glow there ran a band, then a curtain, and then the whole brilliance of the aurora that bring in gentle waves across the sky x Even as I looked the milk-white borders coming and changed, whirled and fluttered x A motion flashed across and burst, a very rocket of stars x The Arctic night, the real arctic night is divine in its radiance - but it is very, very lonely. This morning Jerome dragged me from dream-land into another tempest of driving snow and heavy dullness of those aimless days. I was very sleepy too for all the time I had been asleep x I think perhaps that days with easy work and no discussion - not even that of looking out a window - are more tiring than any times of hard but friend-filled hours. But the harder the lesson, the less one profits - and I am fearing, memory-ing, may even is it cut into me, that one thing else is necessary to life besides food and drinks - but that is ....... Max and Dan visited us today x Clem and Rockbottum arriving by sledges at the same time. It starts for home this tomorrow; and Max is really - I think - going for our mail x That is a very pleasant sentence to write, for it suggests the idea that I may have a letter, which is the next best thing to luck.