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DRACONDA 3
LUCIFER 36
THE SPIDER 39
THE AMAZING ADVENTURE OF JOE SCRANTON 41
POISONED 69
WEIRD CRIMES 81
THE EYRIE 85
THE EDITOR
THE SURVIVOR 94
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Binns sat up, his little eyes, that were set almost into the sides of his nose, glaring at Webb.
"You've had your share," he snarled.
"Water!" the weaker man croaked insistently, holding out a tin cup.
Binns would not permit the other to drink from the canteen; the risk of his getting more than his share was too great. Binns had carried through the bluff at economizing by pointing out to Dick that it was better to measure his allowance. He was scrupulous in doling out his own portion when Dick was looking, then later he always tapped the canteen on the sly. He carried the canteen containing what was left of the water, himself, under an apparently generous impulse—he was the stronger of the two, therefore the one to shoulder the most of the burden.
Dick again held out his cup in a trembling hand and demanded a drink.
"Hell!" snarled Binns.
He moved his hand impatiently toward the canteen, paused. Why should he waste the precious life-sustaining fluid on this half-dead man? He couldn't last, that was evident. Every drop that Dick drank now lessened Binns' chance of getting out. It was a sinful waste to pour water down the throat of a man so nearly gone. It would be much better to let the poor devil die and be done with it. It would be really a mercy to put him out of his misery. Of course it would. Nobody'd ever know the difference, and then Binns would
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