The Twins of Table Mountain

Book Excerpt: rkness seemed to resent. The faces of the twomen thus revealed were singularly alike. The same thin, narrowoutline of jaw and temple; the same dark, grave eyes; the samebrown growth of curly beard and mustache, which concealed themouth, and hid what might have been any individual idiosyncrasy ofthought or expression,--showed them to be brothers, or better knownas the "Twins of Table Mountain." A certain animation in the faceof the second speaker,--the first-comer,--a certain l...