Jefferson Hope commençait a le croire, lorsque soudain en continuant a promener ses regards de tous côtés, il se prit a frissonner de la tete aux pieds ; pres du camp, il venait d’apercevoir un renflement de terre rougeâtre qui certainement n’existait pas quelques heures auparavant.
Jefferson Hope had almost persuaded himself that they must have done so, when his eye fell upon an object which made every nerve of his body tingle within him. A little way on one side of the camp was a low-lying heap of reddish soil, which had assuredly not been there before.