Brainard died on the third day after they set out from the wreck. Carl Reese and the girl, Thela Brill, scraped a grave in the sand with flat pieces of rock, and laid him in it on the litter they had used to carry him. They covered it with rocks to keep the sand wolves out, and set off again across the desert. That day they did not go far. The sun came down through the cloudless Martian sky like a hammer. Every hour or so they had to creep into the shadow of the rocks and rest. It was about mid-