the of about it our thoughts were deep and solemn and we spoke to each other scarcely above whispers you might remove the he said that night as we stood in consultation over him it s dead safe i m a now the next thing to watch out for is bed he smiled his twisted smile and her eyes wide with horror was compelled to turn away her head do you know that your smile is crooked i asked him for i knew that she must attend him and i wished to save her as much as possible then i shall smile no more he said calmly i thought something was wrong my right check has been all day yes and i ve had of this for the the sea wolf last three days by my right side seemed going to sleep sometimes arm or hand sometimes leg or foot so my smile is crooked he a short while after well henceforth that i smile with my soul if you please my soul consider now and for the space of several minutes he lay there quiet indulging his grotesque fancy the man of him was not changed it wa s the old wolf imprisoned somewhere � within that flesh had once b een so in v a splendid now it him with his soul in darkness and silence it from the world which to him had been a riot of action no more would he the to do in every mood and tense to be was all that remained to him � to be as he had defined death without movement to will but not to execute to think and reason and in the spirit of him to be as alive as ever but in the flesh to be dead quite dead and yet though i even removed the we could not ourselves to his condition our minds to us he was full of we knew not what to expect of him next what thing rising above the flesh he might break out and do our experience this state of mind and we went about our work with anxiety always upon us i had solved the problem which had arisen through the of the by means of the watch tackle i had made a new one i heaved the butt of the across the rail and then lowered it to the deck next by means of the i hoisted the main boom on board its forty feet of length would supply the height necessary properly to swing the mast by means of a secondary tackle i had attached to the i swung the boom to a nearly perpendicular position then lowered the butt to the deck where to prevent slipping i great around it the single block of my original tackle i had attached to the end of the boom thus by carrying this to the i could raise and lower the end of the boom at will the butt always remaining stationary and by means of i could swing the boom from side to side to the end of the boom i had likewise a tackle and when the whole arrangement was completed i could not but be startled by the power and latitude it gave me of course two days work was required for the accomplishment of this part of my task and it was not till the morning of the third day that i swung the from the deck and proceeded to square its butt to fit the step here i was especially awkward i and and the wood till it had the appearance of having been by some gigantic mouse but it fitted it will work i know it will work i cried do you know dr s final test of truth asked i shook my head and paused in the act of the which had drifted down my neck can we make it work can we trust our lives to it is the test he is a favorite of yours i said when i my old and cast out napoleon and caesar and their fellows i straightway erected a new she answered gravely and the first i was dr a modern hero the sea wolf and a greater because modern she added i shook my head we were too much alike in things for argument our points of view and outlook oi life at least were very like for a pair of critics we agree i laughed and as and able assistant she back but there was little time for laughter in those days of our heavy work and of the of wolf a living death he had received another stroke he had lost his voices he was losing it he had only use of it as he it the wires were like the stock market now now down occasionally the wires were up and he as well as ever though slowly and heavily then would suddenly desert him in the middle of a sentence perhaps and for hours sometimes we would wait for the connection to be he complained of great pain in his head and it was during this period that he arranged a system of communication against the time when speech should leave him altogether � one pressure of the hand for yes two for no it was well that it was arranged for by evening his voice had gone from him by hand after that he answered our questions and when he wished to speak he his thoughts with his left band quite on a sheet of paper the fierce winter had now descended upon us gale followed gale with snow and and rain the t d started on their great southern and the was practically deserted i worked the sea � me i was on deck from daylight till dark and making substantial progress i by my lesson learned through raising tie and then climbing them to attach the to 