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Running Water

CHAPTER XXV
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A NIGHT ON AN ICE-SLOPE At the base of the rocks there was a narrow ledge on which, huddled together, the three men could sit side by side.

Garratt Skinner began to clear the snow from the ledge with his ice-ax; but Walter Hine sank down at once and Pierre Delouvain, who might have shown a better spirit, promptly followed his example.
"What is the use ?" he whispered.

"We shall all die to-night....

I have a wife and family....

Let us eat what there is to eat and then die," and drowsily repeating his words, he fell asleep.


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