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"
Mayhap
,
mayhap
;
when
one
lives
long
one
forgets
.
Perhaps
it
was
my
mother
's
mother
who
told
me
;
surely
her
name
was
Gagool
also
.
But
mark
,
ye
will
find
in
the
place
where
the
bright
things
are
a
bag
of
hide
full
of
stones
.
The
man
filled
that
bag
,
but
he
never
took
it
away
.
Evil
befell
him
,
I
say
,
evil
befell
him
!
Perhaps
it
was
my
mother
's
mother
who
told
me
.
It
will
be
a
merry
journey
--
we
can
see
the
bodies
of
those
who
died
in
the
battle
as
we
go
.
Their
eyes
will
be
gone
by
now
,
and
their
ribs
will
be
hollow
.
Ha
!
ha
!
ha
!
"
It
was
already
dark
on
the
third
day
after
the
scene
described
in
the
previous
chapter
when
we
camped
in
some
huts
at
the
foot
of
the
"
Three
Witches
,
"
as
the
triangle
of
mountains
is
called
to
which
Solomon
's
Great
Road
runs
.
Our
party
consisted
of
our
three
selves
and
Foulata
,
who
waited
on
us
--
especially
on
Good
--
Infadoos
,
Gagool
,
who
was
borne
along
in
a
litter
,
inside
which
she
could
be
heard
muttering
and
cursing
all
day
long
,
and
a
party
of
guards
and
attendants
.
The
mountains
,
or
rather
the
three
peaks
of
the
mountain
,
for
the
mass
was
evidently
the
result
of
a
solitary
upheaval
,
were
,
as
I
have
said
,
in
the
form
of
a
triangle
,
of
which
the
base
was
towards
us
,
one
peak
being
on
our
right
,
one
on
our
left
,
and
one
straight
in
front
of
us
.
Never
shall
I
forget
the
sight
afforded
by
those
three
towering
peaks
in
the
early
sunlight
of
the
following
morning
.
High
,
high
above
us
,
up
into
the
blue
air
,
soared
their
twisted
snow-wreaths
.
Beneath
the
snow-line
the
peaks
were
purple
with
heaths
,
and
so
were
the
wild
moors
that
ran
up
the
slopes
towards
them
.
Straight
before
us
the
white
ribbon
of
Solomon
's
Great
Road
stretched
away
uphill
to
the
foot
of
the
centre
peak
,
about
five
miles
from
us
,
and
there
stopped
.
It
was
its
terminus
.
I
had
better
leave
the
feelings
of
intense
excitement
with
which
we
set
out
on
our
march
that
morning
to
the
imagination
of
those
who
read
this
history
.
At
last
we
were
drawing
near
to
the
wonderful
mines
that
had
been
the
cause
of
the
miserable
death
of
the
old
Portuguese
Dom
three
centuries
ago
,
of
my
poor
friend
,
his
ill-starred
descendant
,
and
also
,
as
we
feared
,
of
George
Curtis
,
Sir
Henry
's
brother
.
Were
we
destined
,
after
all
that
we
had
gone
through
,
to
fare
any
better
?
Evil
befell
them
,
as
that
old
fiend
Gagool
said
;
would
it
also
befall
us
?
Somehow
,
as
we
were
marching
up
that
last
stretch
of
beautiful
road
,
I
could
not
help
feeling
a
little
superstitious
about
the
matter
,
and
so
I
think
did
Good
and
Sir
Henry
.
For
an
hour
and
a
half
or
more
we
tramped
on
up
the
heather-fringed
way
,
going
so
fast
in
our
excitement
that
the
bearers
of
Gagool
's
hammock
could
scarcely
keep
pace
with
us
,
and
its
occupant
piped
out
to
us
to
stop
.
"
Walk
more
slowly
,
white
men
,
"
she
said
,
projecting
her
hideous
shrivelled
countenance
between
the
grass
curtains
,
and
fixing
her
gleaming
eyes
upon
us
;
"
why
will
ye
run
to
meet
the
evil
that
shall
befall
you
,
ye
seekers
after
treasure
?
"
and
she
laughed
that
horrible
laugh
which
always
sent
a
cold
shiver
down
my
back
,
and
for
a
while
quite
took
the
enthusiasm
out
of
us
.
However
,
on
we
went
,
till
we
saw
before
us
,
and
between
ourselves
and
the
peak
,
a
vast
circular
hole
with
sloping
sides
,
three
hundred
feet
or
more
in
depth
,
and
quite
half
a
mile
round
.
"
Ca
n't
you
guess
what
this
is
?
"
I
said
to
Sir
Henry
and
Good
,
who
were
staring
in
astonishment
at
the
awful
pit
before
us
.
They
shook
their
heads
.
"
Then
it
is
clear
that
you
have
never
seen
the
diamond
diggings
at
Kimberley
.
You
may
depend
on
it
that
this
is
Solomon
's
Diamond
Mine
.
Look
there
,
"
I
said
,
pointing
to
the
strata
of
stiff
blue
clay
which
were
yet
to
be
seen
among
the
grass
and
bushes
that
clothed
the
sides
of
the
pit
,
"
the
formation
is
the
same
.
I
'll
be
bound
that
if
we
went
down
there
we
should
find
'
pipes
'
of
soapy
brecciated
rock
.
Look
,
too
,
"
and
I
pointed
to
a
series
of
worn
flat
slabs
of
stone
that
were
placed
on
a
gentle
slope
below
the
level
of
a
watercourse
which
in
some
past
age
had
been
cut
out
of
the
solid
rock
;
"
if
those
are
not
tables
once
used
to
wash
the
'
stuff
,
'
I
'm
a
Dutchman
.
"
