Deep to dig in search of treasure
Once beneath its carpet laid.
“Find a lamp—by you ’twas lighted
When you first beheld those halls.
’Tis the secret I shall give thee—
Dig—where’er its shadow falls!”
The old man stopped abruptly. The amazed cadet was staring at him in the utmost consternation. And then suddenly the man raised his hand again.
“Go!” he said.
The Parson followed his finger; it was pointing to the camp; and hesitating but a moment more Stanard turned and started away, his brain reeling so that he could hardly walk, his ears still echoing the words:
“’Tis the secret I shall give thee—