And struggle on Johnson did.

Of course there was no hope for him, not the slightest, and he knew it as well as I, but by the manhood that was in him he could not cease from fighting for that manhood.
It was too much for me to witness.

I felt that I should lose my mind, and I ran up the companion stairs to open the doors and escape on deck.
But Wolf Larsen, leaving his victim for the moment, and with one of his tremendous springs, gained my side and flung me into the far corner of the cabin.
"The phenomena of life, Hump," he girded at me.

"Stay and watch it.

You may gather data on the immortality of the soul.