He shook his head.
"No-on land. He was hunting-it must have been the very hunt we were talking about-and wandered from his party.
A fog came on, and they were unable to find him. Lopez telegraphs that they sent out search parties for a fortnight, but could find no trace."
He longed for a word from her, but none came.
"At last they abandoned hope," he concluded. "The expedition is now on its way home."
She had turned her back upon him, and he waited in misery to hear her sob, to see her shoulders shake with her weeping; but, instead, the whole figure seemed to stiffen, and, wheeling round, she faced him with blazing eyes.
"The cowards!" she cried. "To abandon a man to starvation! What are they made of to do such a barbarous thing!"
"We must not judge them unheard," Stephen ventured. "Their search may have been exhaustive-they may have risked their own lives gladly-and you know," he added, gently, "that beyond a certain time it would have been useless from the standpoint of saving life.
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