A mist came before my eyes, and my senses seemed to depart from me. For
a minute or more I was ignorant of what passed.

"You be a vool, Jasper!" I heard Eli say.

"What is it?" I asked. "Where is it gone?"

"Dunnaw, dunnaw. We'll go out."

I hurried out of the cave, forgetful of the purpose for which we came,
and I did not rest until I reached the mainland.

"This is terrible, Eli!" I said.

The dwarf laughed.

"I 'spect it was Granfer's ghost," he grunted; "but what of that? He
ed'n goin' to stop we."

"He has stopped us."

"Not a bit of it. I've got the dreckshuns 'ere. I bean't no vool ef you
be."

I hurried on, for I was terribly afraid, and yet at each step I felt
more glad that Eli had taken the papers. All the time Eli kept close to
my heels, sometimes laughing at my fears, and at others grumbling with
me. Presently I seemed to see things in a new light. Wasn't this
apparition merely the creature of my own imaginations? Had I not
conjured up the spectre myself?

"Eli," I said presently, trying to be brave, "you are right, I am a
fool. That thing was nothing but my fancy."

"Aw, aw!" laughed Eli.

"Come," I said, "there's a furze-cutter's hut somewhere, I saw it as we
crossed the downs to-day. Let us go and read the papers."

"Tha's yer soarts," replied Eli. "'Ere we be."

With that we found our way to a hut which some one had built as a
temporary shelter, and a few minutes later Eli had lit another candle.
The wind which had risen howled across Goonhilly Downs, on which the hut
was built, but the place was sufficiently sheltered to allow the candle
to burn steadily.

"Here 'tes," cried Eli, safely; "raid, Maaster Jasper, raid."

A nervous dread again laid hold of me as I took the thing in my hands,
but mastering my weakness, I cut the threads, and a few minutes later I
had smoothed out the piece of paper on which the directions, of which
Eli had so often spoken, were written.

The following is a copy, as nearly as I can make it, although it is
impossible for me to reproduce the peculiar characters in which it was
written.

CILLYILES
ANNETT NOBODELIVIN
KAMSAY.
LAWTID _Be sur ov this_
DOO SOTH. VURS
KUNGIT.
SOTH AGIN _Lik thiky_
DEVILS POINT

[Illustration: Diagram]

BLAKPLAS
ELLS MOTH S W.
BILYSED N. W.
PIK BAR SHOWL
IREBOX JAMTITE
_Loard be marciful to we_.

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