I will say for him that he had done well, but now I could see that his strength was going on him in spite of himself.

He knew it, all right, for when we rested that day he took all the gold coins and spread them in a row, and counted them, and put them back in his pocket, and then all of a sudden snatched out two handfuls and threw them as far as he could.
"Too heavy," he muttered, but that was all he could bring himself to throw away.
All that night we wandered high in the air.

I guess we tried to keep a general direction, but I don't know.

Anyway, along late, but before moonrise--she was now on the wane--I came to, and found myself looking over the edge of a twenty-foot drop.

Right below me I made out a faint glimmer of white earth in the starlight.