Oh, if I had only a woman beside me, to pray with, and cry with, and die with; for die we must." "I am not so sure of that," said Hazel faintly, but with a cool fortitude all his own.

"Experience proves that the human body can subsist a prodigious time on very little food.

And saturating the clothes with water is, I know, the best way to allay thirst.

And women, thank Heaven, last longer than men, under privations." "I shall not last long, sir," said Helen.

"Look at their eyes." "What do you mean ?" "I mean that those men there are going to kill me.".