Having gone all along the Brow, he was to return the same way and induce him to touch on the same subjects in talking with Adam, who was to meet them as if by chance at the farthest part--that beyond Mercy Farm.
The incidents of the day proved much as Adam expected.

At Mercy Farm, at Diana's Grove, at Castra Regis, and a few other spots, the negro stopped and, opening his wide nostrils as if to sniff boldly, said that he smelled death.

It was not always in the same form.

At Mercy Farm he said there were many small deaths.

At Diana's Grove his bearing was different.