Now, ah! all too soon, she was inside of it, and stood for a second to allow her eyes to grow accustomed to the light.

Presently she began to see, first the outline of the bed, then the outline of the manly form stretched upon it, then both bed and man distinctly.

Jantje had said that he was sleeping like a child.

He might have been; now he was _not_.

On the contrary, his face was convulsed like the face of one in an extremity of fear, and great beads of sweat stood upon his brow.
It was as though he knew his danger, and yet was utterly powerless to avoid it.