I'm mighty stiff and numb, sir.

Oh, Lord, but that hurts; give me a hand, an' perhaps I can make it." "Take it easy; work your legs up and down like that; good, that will restore the circulation.

How long have you been lying here ?" "I don't know, sir," his voice strengthening.

"I must have been hit, the way my head aches.

The first thing I knew after I went into that room with you, I was lyin' here in the dark.