Chapter 15 THE PLACE OF DEPARTED SPIRITS

Every man carries his skull under his face, but

God alone knows the marks on it.

Indian Proverb.

For a man moved, silent and furtive, in the tunnel between me and the stope!

At the knowledge something flared up in me that had been pretty well burnt out: and that was Hope. That any one was in the place showed Macartney had either put a g