The Other Who Returned
a visible effort to fix his attention on his words—"I think it was the third day, the water gave out. The next day at sunrise I saw the flag. It could not be seen with the naked eye; with the glass it was just visible. If it had not been for that, I should have died—out there. I covered a good many miles that morning. There was not a scrap of shade, and the sun was cruel. About noon I saw something running ahead. I thought at first it might be Holloway, still alive by a miracle, gone crazy, you know, with the sun. Anyhow, I was not going to take chances. I chased it. Luckily for me, it went in the general direction of the flag, due east. Then I realised what I was doing, with the sun scorching like a blast of furnace heat. But by that time the mischief was
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