If there is, he is in some other part of the cave." "How came ye to find this fellow ?" "I was walking along, never thinking of anything of the kind, when I came near stepping upon the body.

I was never more scared in my life." "That's the way wid some of yees--ye're more affrighted at a dead man than a live one.

Let's see whether he has left anything that ye can identify him by." Upon examining further, a silver-mounted revolver was found beneath the body.

It was untarnished, and seemingly as good as the day it was completed.

When Mickey came to look at it more closely, he found that only one barrel had been discharged, all the others being loaded.
This fact aroused a suspicion, and, looking again at the head, a round hole, such as would have been made only by a bullet, was found in the very centre of the forehead.