I couldn't move or speak, sir, an' it was so black, I kind of got it into my head maybe I was dead and buried.

If it hadn't been for my hearing things--voices talking, and all that--I guess I would have gone clear batty.

Maybe I didn't get everything straight, sir, but one o' them fellows was Hobart, wasn't he ?" "Yes; we walked right into his trap.

The fellow who came over to the table and talked to us was Jim Hobart.

He knew me at first sight it seems, and easily guessed what we were there for." "And was Miss Coolidge here too, sir ?" "Yes, she was; I had a talk with her that has mixed me all up, Sexton.
She seems to be hand in glove with these fellows.