Sanga-moarta seemed to start with terror as if he had been wakened from a sleep. Suddenly he turned his usually fixed eyes to the questioner. Over his face came a feverish color, and fairly trembling, he stammered out,
"I have seen it—I have seen it—I have seen it."
And with that he covered his eyes so that he should not look at the dead.
"Where have you seen it?" asked the Lieutenant.
"Far—far from here," whispered the Wallachian. Then he became silent again and buried his face in his hands.
"Name the place,—where?"
The Wallachian looked timidly about him, shivered as if a chill had gone over him and whispered to the Lieutenant, with timidly rolling eyes,
"In the neighborhood of Gregyina-Drakuluj."[3]
[3] Devil's Garden.
The priest and the judge crossed themselves three times, and the latter raised his eyes most devoutly to a picture of Peter, hanging on the wall, as if he would call on him for help.