ocr: Don Merton in the meantime has calmly walked off a few yards, and is peering anxiously at a patch of the scrubby ground. He squats down, and very carefully brushes aside pieces of loose earth and grass from a shallow depression in the earth. He finds something and picks it up.Itis small, roughly oval in shape and pale in colour. He examines it carefully for - a while and his shoulders sag dejectedly.