He stayed round wid Pike and the blacks till he died." "And where is the certificate?
Have you lost it ?" "I sint mine down to Mick to keep for me--jist a bit of paper written in pencil it was--and it got lost some ways; but I have a copy of it I med at the time." "Where is the copy now ?" "At Mick's place." "You must tell Mick to bring it in.

Now where is this place, Pike's ?" "Out this side of the opal-fields.

It's wild and rough now, but what it was then--well 'twas more like a black's camp nor a white man's place at all." Blake thought the story had gone far enough.

He did not believe a word of it.

"Look here, Peggy," he said, "You have given the place, the date, the name of the parson, and everything.