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? ? ? ? 'You should have seen him before, then.'

? ? ? ? 'Wolf Larsen in large doses,' I murmured, 'before and after taking.'

? ? ? ? 'I want to tell you again, Hump,' he said threateningly, 'that you'd better leave things alone.'

? ? ? ? 'But don't you care to escape as well as we?' I asked incredulously.

? ? ? ? 'No,' was his answer. 'I intend dying here.'

? ? ? ? 'Well, we don't,' I concluded defiantly, beginning again my knocking and hammering.

Chapter Thirty-Five

? ? ? ? NEXT DAY, THE MAST-STEPS clear and everything in readiness, we started to get the two topmasts aboard. The maintopmast was over thirty feet in length, the foretopmast nearly thirty, and it was of these that I intended making the shears. It was puzzling work. Fastening one end of a heavy tackle to the windlass, and with the other end fast to the butt of the foretopmast, I began to heave.


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