A poor, drugged insensible creature.

But I mustn't tell all I know.

I mustn't tell all I know." For a little while he muttered inaudibly.

His secret was too much for him.

"I don't know the ones that put him to sleep--that was before my time--but I know the man who injected the stimulants and woke him again.
It was ten to one--wake or kill.