Christian Weber approached the negress, and making a rapid pass over her forehead:
"Are you there?" said he.
"Yes, master."
"Sir Thomas Hawerburch?"
At these words she shuddered again.
"Do you see him?"
"Yes—yes," she gasped in a strangling voice, "I see him."
"Where is he?"
"Up there—in the back of the cavern—dead!"
"Dead!" said the doctor, "how?"