They lived contented, for they had given up all hope of getting away, and are all dead now.

We made this place a retreat, had a settlement here, after the wreck of the Storm in the cave, of forty men.

They are all dead but me.

I have been here forty years--nine of them passed alone; and now my time has almost come.

I took the name of George Dunman because I had disgraced that of my parents, and because I am an outlaw, and I want to die here and be forgotten." It was after midnight when the old man finished his story.