The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: direful conjectures.
By six o’clock our fears had become intense
and definite, and after a wireless consultation with Douglas and
Thorfinnssen I resolved to take steps toward investigation. The
fifth aeroplane, which we had left at the McMurdo Sound supply
cache with Sherman and two sailors, was in good shape and ready
for instant use, and it seemed that the very emergency for which
it had been saved was now upon us. I got Sherman by wireless and
ordered him to join me with the plane and the two sailors at the
southern base as quickly as possible, the air conditions being
apparently highly favorable. We then talked over the personnel
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