nt r i the cook s i had into wolf s state room to put tt to rights and � the bed against the wall near the head of the was a ra ck filled with books i glanced over thorn with astonishment such names as shakes l i re and de there were works too among which were represented men such i and and the sea wolf were represented and i remarked s age of fable s history of english and american literature and johnson s natural history in two large volumes then there were a number of such as s and reed and s and i smiled as i saw a copy of the dean s english i could not reconcile these books with the man from what i had seen of him and i wondered if he could possibly read them but when i came to make the bed i found between the blankets dropped apparently as he had sunk off to sleep a complete the cambridge edition it was open at in a balcony and i noticed here and there passages in pencil further letting drop the volume during a of the ship a sheet of paper fell out it was over with and calculations of some sort it was patent that this terrible man was no ignorant such as one would inevitably suppose him to be from his of at once he became an one side or the other of his nature was perfectly but both sides together were bewildering i bad already remarked that his language was excellent with an occasional slight of course in common speech with the sailors and hunters it sometimes fairly with errors which was due to the itself but in the few words he had held with me it had boon clear and correct this glimpse i had caught of his other side must have me for i resolved to speak to him about the money i had lost i have been robbed i said to him a little later when i found him pacing up and down the alone sir he corrected not harshly but sternly it the sea wolf ire been robbed sir i � r did it he asked i told him whole circumstance how ni m left to dry in the and how later i was by the cook when i mentioned the matter at recital he concluded f � picking s and don t you think your miserable th the price besides consider it a lesson you u i time how to take care of your money for yourself � c up to now your lawyer has done it for you or agent id feel the quiet sneer through his words but d� i how can get it back again it s your vou t any lawyer or ent now so you ll have to depend on yourself get a dollar hang on to it a man who leaves icy lying around the way you did deserves to lose you have you have no right to put ion in the way of your fellow creatures you and he fell you have placed his by the way do you believe in the il soul lifted lazily as he asked the question and it that the were opening to me and that i was into his soul but it was an illusion far as it lave seemed no man has ever seen very far into s soul or seen it at all � of this i am con it was a very lonely soul i was to learn that though at rare moments it played at � ad immortality in your i answered dropping � an experiment for i thought the intimacy of it the sea wolf he took no notice by that i take it you see thing that is alive but that necessarily does not have to live forever i read more than that i continued boldly then you read consciousness you read the consciousness of life that it is alive but still no further away no of life how clearly he thought and how well he expressed what he thought from regarding me curiously he turned his head and glanced out over the leaden sea to a came into his eyes and the lines of his mouth grew severe and harsh he was evidently in a mood then to what end he demanded abruptly turning back to mc hi am immortal � why i halted how could i explain my to this man how could i put into speech a something felt a something like the strains of music heard in sleep a something that convinced yet utterance what do you believe then i i believe that life is a mess he answered promptly it is like a a thing that moves and may move for a minute an hour a year or a hundred years but that in the end will cease to move the big eat the little that they may continue to move the strong cat the weak that they may retain their strength the lucky eat the most and move the longest that is all what do you make of those s he swept his arm in an impatient gesture toward a number of the sailors who were working on some kind of rope stuff they move so the move they move in order to eat in order that they may keep moving p tlie si c yon have it they live for their belly s sake and u for their sake it s a circle you get no � neither do they in the end they come to a they move no more they are dead y have dreams i interrupted radiant flashing � � � of he concluded � and of more � of a larger appetite and more in il hb sounded harsh there was no levity is it � � for look you they dream 