We were supplied with such small necessaries of existence as would enable us to live if our rescuers were delayed for a day, or even two.

Now, there will be no rescue.

We are--" he looked slowly around--"twenty instead of four; but we have the same quantity of stores, which consist of a half-emptied skin of wine, a bunch of bananas, a few scraps of maize bread, and some strips of dried meat.

Do you follow me ?" Coke, who had been holding Watts in a sitting posture by a firm grip on his collar, allowed the limp figure to sprawl headlong again.

He wanted to plunge both hands deeply into his trousers pockets, because men of his type associate attitude so closely with thought that the one is apt to become almost dependent on the other.