"You will feel better in a few moments." They held him up, but he repeated his cry.

"Leave me alone!" and the moment they let him go he sank down again upon the ledge.

He was overcome with drowsiness, the slightest movement tortured him.
Garratt Skinner looked up at the leaden sky.
"We must wait till help comes," he said, Delouvain shook his head.
"It will not come to-day.

We shall all die here.

It was wrong, monsieur, to try the Brenva ridge.