19/36 He just looked at Hine curiously--that was all. It was a curious thing to him that Hine should display an unexpected manliness--almost a heroism. It could not be pleasant even to contemplate being left alone upon these windy and sunless heights to die. But actually to wish it! "How did you come by so much fortitude ?" he asked; and to his astonishment, Walter Hine replied: "I learnt it from you, old man." "From me ?" "Yes." Garratt Skinner gave him some of the brandy and listened to a portrait of himself, described in broken words, which he was at some pains to recognize. |