The moment his ropes were cut, he buried his teeth in the great chunk of roasted meat.
Harrigan jerked him away and held him by main force.
"Be a man!" he whispered.

"We've got to take this food and this water back to the wireless house--if we can get there with it.

Take hold of yourself, Campbell!" The engineer nodded.

Voices came close down the deck; instantly Harrigan jerked up the glass globe which protected the lantern's flame and blew out the light.

They crouched shoulder to shoulder.
"I thought he was in here," said a voice at the door.
"He was," answered Hovey's voice, "but I guess they took him below-- they said it was too cool for him up there.