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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: The whole business had occupied hardly two hours, but it was as
though that time was no part of Barnaby's life, but all a part of
some other life, so dark and strange and mysterious that it in no
wise belonged to him.
As for that box covered all over with mud, he could only guess at
that time what it contained and what the finding of it signified.
But of this our hero said nothing to anyone, nor did he tell a
single living soul what he had seen that night, but nursed it in
his own mind, where it lay so big for a while that he could think
of little or nothing else for days after.
Mr. Greenfield, Mr. Hartright's correspondent and agent in these
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates | 
