My expectation is, however, that when we go to look tomorrow morning--and I suggest that we should not do so before then in order that we may give our minds time to clear--we shall find that sepulchre place quite empty, even perhaps without the crystal coffins we have imagined to stand there." "Perhaps we shall find that there isn't a cave at all and that we are not sitting on a flat rock outside of it," suggested Bastin with heavy sarcasm, adding, "You are clever in your way, Bickley, but you can talk more rubbish than any man I ever knew." "They told us they would come back tonight or tomorrow," I said.

"If they do, what will you say then, Bickley ?" "I will wait till they come to answer that question.

Now let us go for a walk and try to change our thoughts.

We are all over-strained and scarcely know what we are saying." "One more question," I said as we rose to start.

"Did Tommy suffer from hallucinations as well as ourselves ?" "Why not ?" answered Bickley.