"How are you to know?
It's very few men--" "I _am_ the Sleeper." He had to repeat it.
There was a brief pause.

"There's a silly thing to say, sir, if you'll excuse me.

It might get you into trouble in a time like this," said the old man.
Graham, slightly dashed, repeated his assertion.
"I was saying I was the Sleeper.

That years and years ago I did, indeed, fall asleep, in a little stone-built village, in the days when there were hedgerows, and villages, and inns, and all the countryside cut up into little pieces, little fields.

Have you never heard of those days?
And it is I--I who speak to you--who awakened again these four days since." "Four days since!--the Sleeper! But they've _got_ the Sleeper.