There are keel-boats and barges always floating down stream from the mines.

He dare not remain here; that was why they were in such haste; why, they did not even wait to bury the bodies." "You may be right," I admitted, impressed, yet not wholly convinced.
"But what can we do ?" She looked at me reproachfully.
"You should not ask that of a girl." The words stung me.
"No; this is my task.

I was thoughtlessly cruel.

Neither can we remain here, only long enough to bury those bodies.

It would be inhuman not to do that.