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[Sterkel R. <co...@da...>]

S went on, and Mark was able to search the horrible gloom more and more,
he shuddered; and, suffering as he was from the effects of the deadly
mephitic air, the whole scene preyed upon his mind until he could hardly
believe that he was gazing at reality, the whole tragedy before him
resembling the dream accompanying some fever, and it was only by an
effort that he could master the intense desire to struggle up the ladder
and escape into the light and the free fresh air. The buckets were
nearly empty, and he felt that it would be better for what was left in
one to be poured into the other, so that the supplying might still go on
while more was fetched, when it suddenly struck him that there was
something wrong. In the darkness he could dimly make out two or three
tall blacks pressing forward toward where the white-clothed sailors were
dispensing the precious fluid, and it struck him that their aspect was
threatening. The next moment he set the idea down as b