in the cave?"

"I had returned from exploring a long passage in the limestone rock,
when I heard voices and saw a bright light in the main cave. For reasons
of my own, I did not desire to be discovered; therefore, I crept forward
till I lay on a sort of gallery which overlooked the scene. Four men
were grouped round a fire at which they were drying their clothes, and
by the light of the flames they divided a large quantity of gold which,
from their conversation, I learned they had stolen from men whom they
had murdered. They described the method of the murders; each man
boasting of the part he had played. They had stuck up a gold-escort, and
had killed four men, one of whom was a constable and another a banker."

"That was how they described them?"

"That is so. The two remaining murdered men they did not describe as to
profession or calling."

"You say that you had previously met these fiends. What were their
names?"

"They called each other by what appeared to be nicknames. One, the
leader, was Dolly; another Sweet William, or simply William; the third
was Carny, or Carnac; the fourth Garstang. But how far these were their
real names I am unable to say."

"Where did you first meet them?"

"In The Lucky Digger. I played for money with them, and lost
considerably."

"When next did you meet them?"

"Some weeks afterwards I saw two of them--the leader, known as Dolphin,
or Dolly, and the youngest member of the gang, named William."

"Where was that?"

"On the track to Bush Robin Creek. I had come out of the bush, and saw
them on the track. When I had hidden myself, they halted opposite me at
a certain rock which stands beside the track. From where I lay I
heard them planning some scheme, the nature of which I then scarcely
understood, but which must have been the sticking-up of the gold-escort.
I heard them discuss details which could have been connected with no
other undertaking."

"Would you know them if you saw them again?"

"Certainly."

"Look round the Court, and see if they are present."

Benjamin turned, and looked hard at the sea of faces on the further side
of the barrier. There were faces, many of which he knew well, but he saw
nothing of Dolphin's gang.

"I see none of them here," he said, "but I recognise a man who could
bear me out in identifying them, as he was with me when I lost money to
them at cards."

"I would ask you to point your friend out to me," said the Judge. "Do I
unders