Ghost Stories And Mysteries
“He had been cast away there for some weeks, living on trepang and shell-fish.Nothing was seen to in any way bear out this story.* * * * * * *“Three of us alone between sea and sky—three men with a wolf inside each, wolves that looked at each other out of our eyes. Gronard crouched in the bottom of the boat, gnawing at a piece of wood; Pelrine sat at the stern, with his sheath-knife in his hand, digging savagely at the thwart; I was sitting in the bow.“The sail flapped idly at every little swing... and roll of the boat, just as it had flapped during the last fortnight, never once bellying out.“Beside us three there was the sun—the sun that hated us so. Hot and eager it rose in the morning—hot and eager to drink our blood. With anger that we should be still alive, it set in the evening. Gronard cursed the sun, Pelrine cursed the sun, and I cursed the sun.“That was all we did from morning to night. It was all we had to do. It is bad for men to sit silent all day, only speaking to curse the sun, for then the wolf rages and breaks out.“It broke forth in Pelrine, sitting digging his knife in the thwart, and suddenly he sprang upon Gronard.MoreLess
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