At last he could stand the stillness of his retreat and his supine position no longer, and rolled himself out of the bed of leaves that Teresa had so carefully prepared for him.

He rose to his feet stiff and sore, and, supporting himself by the nearest tree, moved a few steps from the dead ashes of the camp-fire.

The movement frightened the lizard, who abandoned the paper and fled.

With a satirical recollection of Brace and his "ridiculous" discovery through the medium of this animal, he stooped and picked up the paper.

"Like as not," he said to himself, with grim irony, "these yer lizards are in the discovery business.