Yet that light was no illusion; he rubbed his eyes, only to see it more clearly, convinced now of its reality.

He strode hastily across, and shook Neb into semi-consciousness, dragging him bodily up the bank and pointing down stream.
"Do you see that ?" he inquired anxiously.

"There, straight ahead of you ?" The negro stared, shaking with cold, and scarcely able to stand alone.
"Maybe it am de moon, Massa Jack," he muttered thickly, "or a goblin's lantern.

Lawd, I don't jest like de looks ob dat ting." "Well, I do," and Keith laughed uneasily at the negro's fears.

"All I wanted to know was if you saw what I saw.