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but the old man secretly broke his own half-biscuit in two, saving Trot's share
for a time of greater need.
He was beginning to be worried over the little girl's plight and long after she
was asleep and the Ork was snoring in a rather disagreeable manner, Cap'n
Bill sat with his back to a rock and smoked his pipe and tried to think of some
way to escape from this seemingly endless tunnel. But after a time he also
slept, for hobbling on a wooden leg all day was tiresome, and there in the dark
slumbered the three adventurers for many hours, until the Ork roused itself
and kicked the old sailor with one foot.
"
It must be another day," said he.
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