Critical Comments
This is a simple story which shows how the differences between men are superficial in their essence, and that men can come together when they are facing a common danger, or when they feel the need for each other. Lewis hated Morgan. He thought that the other man was nothing short of the devil personified. But even then he loved the strong and resonant voice with which he sang his hymns . It was for the love of that voice that Lewis was the first to proceed with the rescue operations.
His anger was however , roused by the fact that the other man had been drinking in the church, and had been doing so every day. They exchanged some harsh words. But it did not last long and soon they were friends because Lewis too had fallen down, and in that state he needed the other man. The two men began to sing together.
It is a short and very well constructed story. From the beginning to the end there is no flagging of interest, there is nothing irrelevant, or digressionary about it.
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