At this he roared with laughter.
'That's a dull ending, anyway.

It's me that should have the money, for I'm full of imagination.

You were aye a prosaic body, Davie.' 'Maybe I am,' I said; 'but I am very sure of one thing.

If I hadn't been a prosaic body, I wouldn't be sitting here to-night.' Two years later Aitken found the diamond pipe, which he had always believed lay in the mountains.

Some of the stones in the cave, being unlike any ordinary African diamonds, confirmed his suspicions and set him on the track.