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Headlong Speed Upward Through the Horrors of Darkness

           "Axel,"repliedtheProfessorwithperfectcoolness,"oursituationisalmostdesperate;buttherearesomechancesofdeliverance,anditisthesethatIamconsidering.Ifateveryinstantwemayperish,soateveryinstantwemaybesaved.Letusthenbepreparedtoseizeuponthesmallestadvantage."

           "Butwhatshallwedonow?"

           "Recruitourstrengthbyeating."

           AtthesewordsIfixedahaggardeyeuponmyuncle.ThatwhichIhadbeensounwillingtoconfessatlasthadtobetold.

           "Eat,didyousay?"

           "Yes,atonce."

           TheProfessoraddedafewwordsinDanish,butHansshookhisheadmournfully.

           "What!"criedmyuncle."Havewelostourprovisions?"

           "Yes;hereisallwehaveleft;onebitofsaltmeatforthethree."

           Myunclestaredatmeasifhecouldnotunderstand.

           "Well,"saidI,"doyouthinkwehaveanychanceofbeingsaved?"

           Myquestionwasunanswered.

           Anhourpassedaway.Ibegantofeelthepangsofaviolenthunger.Mycompanionsweresufferingtoo,andnotoneofusdaredtouchthiswretchedremnantofourgoodlystore.

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