31/36 A short search discovered a second nail as lightly secured as the other. Had he not been careful it would have fallen beneath his touch. It was a fanciful, extravagant notion when he got it, but one that set his chilled blood running, and his hands tingling, one that might mean much to himself and to others. It was unlikely, it was improbable, it was out of the common; but it was an explanation. It was a mighty thing to hang upon two weak nails; but such as it was--and he turned it over and over in his mind before he dared entertain it--he could find no other. |