It is not yet too late! A foot, the other foot! Is all lost?
He irresolutely opens his eyes, and sees how the cross is raised, and rocks, and is set fast in the trench.

He sees how the hands of Jesus are convulsed by the tension, how painfully His arms stretch, how the wounds grow wider, and how the exhausted abdomen disappears under the ribs.
The arms stretch more and more, grow thinner and whiter, and become dislocated from the shoulders, and the wounds of the nails redden and lengthen gradually--lo! in a moment they will be torn away.No.

It stopped.

All stopped.

Only the ribs move up and down with the short, deep breathing.
On the very crown of the hill the cross is raised, and on it is the crucified Jesus.