the instant he was on the other side of it clutched with both hands and said in a choking whisper as if he were mr he must be followed he must be watched he mustn t be lost sight of for a moment why mustn t he asked also comrade you might have noticed i was a little in spirits when you come in to night i ve found something what have you found asked clutching him with both hands so that stood like a couple of preposterous there s no time to tell you now i think he must have gone to look for it we must have an eye upon him instantly each other they crept to the door opened it softly and peeped out it was a night and the shadow of the made the dark yard darker if not a double whispered why a dark lantern we could have se i what he was about if he had carried a light one softly this way cautiously along the path that was bordered by fragments of set in ashes the two stole after him they could hear him at peculiar trot crushing the loose as he went he our knows ihe place by and don t need to turn his lantern on him bnt he did torn it on in that game instant and flashed its light npon the first of the is that the spot t asked in a whisper he s warm said in the same tone he s precious warm he s dose i think he must be going to look far it what s that he s got in his hand a answered and he knows how to use it remember fifty times as well as either of us if he looks for it and it partner suggested what shall we first of all wait till he does said discreet advice too for he darkened his lantern again and the mound turned black after a few seconds he turned the light on once more and was seen standing at the foot of the second mound slowly the lantern little by little until he held it up at arm s length as if ne were examining the condition of the whole sur ce that can t be the spot said no said he s getting cold it strikes me whispered that he wants to find out whether any one has been groping about there returned ne s getting colder and colder � he s this exclamation was by his having turned the lantern off i ain and on again and being visible at the foot of the third mound why he s going up it said and all said at a trot as if tne over his shoulder stimulated him by old associations mr ascended the walk up the mound which he had described to on the occasion of their beginning to decline and fall on striking into it he turned his lantern off the two followed stooping low so that their figures might make no mark in relief against the sky when he should turn his lantern on again mr took the lead mr in order that his leg might be promptly from any it should dig for itself they could just make out that the golden stopped to breathe of course they stopped too instantly this is his own mound whispered as he recovered his wind this one why all three are his own returned so he thinks but he s used to call this his because it s the one first left to him the one that was his when it was all he took under the will when he shows his light said keeping watch upon his dusky figure all the time drop lower and keep closer he went on again and they followed again gaining the top of the mound he turned on his light � but only partially � and stood it on the ground a bare pole was planted in the ashes there and had been there many a year hard by this pole stood a feet of part of it and a little of the around and off a little dear trail ci light into the air he can never be going to dig the pole v as low and kept perhaps it s and fall of he was going to dig with whatsoever object for he ed up his and on hia hands and then went at it like an old as he was he had no des upon the that he a s from it beginning nor was it has purpose to dig deep some dozen or so of expert strokes then ho stopped looked down into the bent o ver it� and took est what appeared to be an ordinary case bottle one of those short the is said to keep his in as soon as he had done this he turned off his lantern and they hear that he was filling up the hole in the dark the ashes being easily moved by a hand the took this as a hint to make off in good time mr slipped past mr and him down but mr s descent was not without personal inconvenience for his self willed leg sticking into the about half way down and time pressing mr took the liberty of him from his by the collar which him to make the rest of the journey on his with his head enveloped in the skirts of his coat and his wooden coming last like a drag so was mr w g by this mode of travelling that when he was set on the with his intellectual uppermost he was quite of his bearings and had not least idea where his of was to be � until mr him into it even he staggered round and round weakly staring about him until mr witli a hard brush brushed his senses into 