CHAPTER XI.
THE HALL OF THE DEAD Alan rose and stretched himself, and hearing him, Jeekie, who had a dog's faculty of instantly awaking from what seemed to be the deepest sleep, sat up also.
"You rest well, Major?
No dream, eh ?" he asked curiously.
"Not very," answered Alan, "and I had a dream, of a woman who stood over me and vanished away, as dreams do." "Ah!" said Jeekie.

"But where you find that new ring on finger, Major ?" Alan stared at his hand and started, for there set on it above that of Barbara, was the little circlet formed of twisted snakes which he had seen in his sleep.
"Then it must have been true," he said in a low and rather frightened voice.

"But how did she come and go ?" "Funny place, Gold House.

I tell you that yesterday, Major.

People come up through hole, like rat.