Let us do what he bade us--look to the body of this poor girl." They turned back, dreading their task, moving still as though half dazed.

As they advanced, a dark body just beyond suddenly rose to its knees, and began crawling away.

With a bound Hicks succeeded in laying hands upon the fellow, and flung him over, face upward to the stars.
With gun at his head he held the man prostrate, staring down upon the revealed features in manifest astonishment.
"Damn me!" he cried, a new note of surprise in his voice, "Winston, look yere!" "What is it ?" and the younger man pressed forward, his rifle ready.
"Ain't that Burke?
Ain't that the same feller they had you pinched fer murderin' ?" The helpless man lying upon the ground frowned savagely up at them, a dirty bandage bound about his head giving him a ghastly, unnatural appearance.

For a long moment the startled engineer gazed down at him in incredulity, unable to distinguish the features clearly, his own heart beating rapidly in suspense.
"I half believe it is.

Are you Jack Burke ?" The man attempted a grin, but there was little of merriment in the result.
"Oi think loikely ye 're as liable as any wan to know.