Rayel still lay motionless upon the floor.

Was he asleep?
Why did he not rise?
I began to feel numb.

I seemed to have lost the power of motion.

I could hear some one rapping at our door, but I could not move.
"Kendric! Kendric! Kendric!" Was it my stepmother who was calling me?
What a piteous, pleading tone! "Let me speak to you, Kendric! For God's sake, let me tell you!" I was reeling: my strength had all left me.
Crash! went the lamp at my feet.

There was a great flash of light, which dazzled my eyes, and I fell heavily upon the floor.
I was in the open air when thought and feeling came back to me.