"I can see you free and happy."
"Ha!" cried Jack. "When?"
"Before long. I congratulate you. Do not forget what I told you about the diamond."
"I will not."
"Cut it out as soon as I am dead, and then give the alarm at the mouth of the shaft."
"I will; but where shall I put it?"
Alfonso looked wildly around him.
"I don't know. I can't tell," he replied. "My brain is in a whirl. I hear strange voices ringing in my ears. Angels are talking to me. I am conversing with the spirits of the mighty dead and they bid me come to them."
Jack saw now that the man was crazed.
His troubles and his hard lot had weakened his mind, and he was no longer responsible for his actions.