Yet they are already judged, and, I take it, justified, for the dead men sit as warders of a greater treasurehouse.
"I think that we eleven--and two of us near death--were already half out of the body, for weariness and longing shift the mind from its moorings.
I can hear yet Captain Bovill asking very gently of this greater treasure-house, and I can hear the priest, like one in a trance, speaking high and strange.

'It is the Mountain of God, he said, 'which lies a little way further.

There may be seen the heavenly angels ascending and descending.'" Raleigh shook his head.

"Madness, Jasper--the madness begot of too much toil...

I know it...