TWO MEN stood on the bridge of a speeding ship in a place of ice and fire. A storm rode with them, a tempest shrieked and moaned and tore, and around the ship seethed and tossed the waters of the furious Antarctic Sea. Ice floes cracked and crashed. Giant bergs, staggering under the lash of the gale, added the dull thunder of their impact to the wild din.<br />Yet all the fury and clamor afloat paled in comparison with the appalling splendor of that which was taking place on shore.