A man would sometimes rather die than keep alive, anyway, if it came only to that.
But I know I made up my mind I was going to get out so I could smash up that Anderson, and I reckon Denton had the same idea.

Schwartz didn't say anything, but he pumped on ahead of us, his back bent over, and his clothes sagging and bulging with the gold he carried.
We used to travel all night, because it was cool, and rest an hour or two at noon.

That is all the rest we did get.

I don't know how fast we went; I'd got beyond that.

We must have crawled along mighty slow, though, after our first strength gave out.