"Look here, my good fellow; you're very ill, I see; you're delirious. Go home and get to bed."
"Yes, sir, I'll go. But study on what I've said, sir; for it's gospel truth, as I'm a dying man."
"Can you manage to go alone? Shall I wake Adam to help you home?"
'Dolphus laughed again. "No, don't wake Adam, sir. I'll go safer alone."
Durgan, now convinced that hectic fever had produced delirium, went as far as Adam's cabin to consult him. To his surprise, he found it empty.
Chapter XIV THE GOING OUT OF EVE
When the next day was breaking, Durgan wakened to the sound of footsteps and loud lamenting. Adam, weeping like a heart-broken schoolboy, in terrified haste stumbled into the door of the hut.
"Marse Neil, suh, I've been huntin' her the whole night long, an' I've found her done dead. Marsa, come, for de good Lord's sake! She's lyin' all by herself on de ground. Oh, oh, my pore gal; my pore honey!"