After all, what did _I_ know?
'"Dead or not dead, I could not get clear," he said.

"I had to live; hadn't I ?" '"Well, yes--if you take it in that way," I mumbled.
'"I was glad, of course," he threw out carelessly, with his mind fixed on something else.

"The exposure," he pronounced slowly, and lifted his head.

"Do you know what was my first thought when I heard?
I was relieved.

I was relieved to learn that those shouts--did I tell you I had heard shouts?
No?
Well, I did.