"This must be looked into," said Harry, resolutely. "Who will go with me to the ledge?"
"No—no—do not go," pleaded Mary, "see how the fire rages! The peak may explode before you come down, and you be swallowed up in the flames!"
Harry however was determined to go.
"If nobody will go with me," said he, "I will go alone."
Mary advanced to his side.
"I will go with you," said she; "if you are to perish, I will die with you."
The young man, however, would not permit the girl to accompany him.
"If what was seen was mortal," said Turk, "why, then, I'd go with you; but I don't care to have anything to do with spirits and sich like, which can give you a poke in the stomach, do you see, and yet you not be able to square off to 'em."
"Very well, then, I go alone," said Harry, as he sprang away.
He had not reached the foot of the cliff, when he felt a hand on his arm, and turned to behold Turk.