Chapter 14 THE WELL-HOUSE

For those thou mayest not look upon

Are gathering fast round the yawning stone-Scott

It wanted yet half an hour of midnight when I found myself at the shaft of the marble quarry, and before I had well set foot on the steps to descend, heard Elzevir's voice challenging out of the darkness below. I gave back 'Prosper the Bonaventure', and so ca