'Well, I says nowt ti Nicholson aboot gannin' doon the pit till the vary mornin', and then I gans along an' catches ahaud on him, an' says, "Ho-way,[8] thoo mun come along wiv us doon the pit, for I wants ti see the place o' the accident myself, an' I hev arranged aboot gannin' doon," I says. Well, he turns quite white at this, an' whines an' cries not ti gan; but I was res'lute wiv him, an' tarr'fies him wiv a hint ov a gaol if he winnot come doon and show us aal I axes him. 'Well, we went by the drift and straight doon ti the "Number 3, North," or "Joan" district, as we call it worsels, an' there we gropes aboot the trolley-way, just at the corner where the accident must have taken place, an' searched for footmarks. 'The lad, ye ken, must just have started frae the putter's flat wiv a full tub, an' aboot thirty yards doon he must have been gliffed. Hereaboots, iv a fenced place, Tom must have waited on Jack's "loosin' off" frae his wark, an' another ten yards further on is where the galloway must have run awa' off frae the rails. I had it aal mapped oot ready i' my mind, an' it was just the details I had ti fit in wiv it. 'There was mair tramplin' aboot than I had expected, what wi' the galloway's stumblin', the tub ploughin' alang through the dirt, an' the footprints o' the search-party that had come up ti the scene o' the casualty; but for aal that, I could see here an' there the marks o' Tom's big shoes, wi' the extry broad plates at heel an' toes he used ti wear. 'Mevvies it wasn't ower much ti see, but it heartened us up, for it conformed us i' wor opinions, especially the fact that wherever they was visible they was close in by the wall-side, as if he had been wishful ti hide himself as far as might be--a sort o' presumptuous evidence against him, as the lawyers call it. '"I will have ti gan back ti bed again," I says ti myself, "ti think it aal oot properly, for though I haven't a doot about it myself, I'll have ti convince aal thae thick-heads o' judges at my lord's 'Size[9] before I gets him properly convicted, sae I must have it aal pieced oot an' put together like a bairn's puzzle-map." 'Well, we was slowly makin' wor way oot o' the passage when I hears something comin' up-by, creak, creakin' as it came. Weel, I's no coward, I's warn'd, an' I'll face any man livin' that ye like ti mention, but I got a fair gliff at that, for I couldn't make oot what it might mean--Nicholson an' us bein' the only folk aboot doon there. "Gox, it's Jack's ghost!" think I ti mysel iv a sudden sweat o' fear. Sae oot at once I turns my davy (lamp), an' the lad's, fearin' lest he might notice us, an' shrinks back inti the corner o' the wall as small as could be, with the lad tremblin' aal ower next us. Efter a bit I sees a wee glimmer o' light shakin' i' the darkness, then a shadow ov a man behind it, an' slowly, vary slowly, as if seekin' something, it mounts up the passage towards us.