They were still ablaze with light; but both of us faltered a little, I think, on the threshold of the ante-room. Particularly did his fingers linger on every boss and point, striving to push it in or move it up or down; but they were all immovable. The man in charge of it nodded to me, but I did not go in, for the sight was anything but a pleasant one. But, Godfrey," I said, "if you could have seen those diamonds--those beautiful diamonds--and to think he should be able to get away with them from right under our noses! But some day I shall get him--every pitcher to the well goes once too often. The way down turned and turned; and each time that Shade and Johnnie got another sight of the buildings of the little village below, they had changed in character with the changing point of view. Miss Baird, that taught the school I went to over at Rainy Gap, had a herbarium, and put all kinds of pressed flowers in it.
I'll tell you just one thing, and you'd better never forget it, neither.