We had long since passed out of sight of each other, and much time was necessarily wasted by our going to and from the place where we left off each day.

Many a time I hallooed to the old man to keep his heart up, and received back his cheery halloo far and far away.
Once or twice we had made fancied discoveries which we called off the other to see, and once or twice we had tried some blasting on rocks that seemed to suggest mysterious tunnellings into the earth.

But it had all proved a vain thing and a weariness of the flesh.

And the ghost of John P.Tobias still kept his secret..