Jones, you stay here until I come back--you know what to do." Miles' eyes followed him; then he looked at the dead bodies, shuddering, his hands to his face.

When he took them down again he seemed to see Billie for the first time.
"You--you here, Miss! Oh, I remember now; it had been knocked plum out o' me.

Did he get away ?" "Who ?" "That feller who knifed Burke.

I had him all right, sir, back in the coal cellar.

He'd crawled away there into one corner, an' it was dark as hell--beg your pardon, Miss." The sergeant sank back against Jones' shoulder, and the man wet his lips with water.