[Nedra by George Barr McCutcheon]@TWC D-Link bookNedra CHAPTER XVIII 10/16
See? I have found water. Drink!" With one hand he reached down and took hers, eagerly upstretched, drawing her to the rock on which he stood.
She gulped the contents of the shell with the haste of one half famished. "How good!" she cried, with eyes sparkling as she took the empty shell from her moist lips.
"I was so thirsty that I tried to drink that bitter stuff down there.
How horrible it must be to die of thirst.
Can we find food, Hugh? Is there nothing to eat? I am so hungry, so hungry." The sparkle faded from her eyes and a look of pain filled them. "I have found cocoanuts on the other side of the hill.
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