I been lyin' here about half dead, I guess, an' I don't seem to have known anything after that, until those fellows come down here with the lantern.

Were they hunting after you ?" "Yes; I outwitted them up stairs, and jumped from a window.

But that is enough talk now; we'll go over the whole affair when we are safely away from this place.

How is it?
do you think you can navigate ?" Sexton responded by getting slowly to his feet.

He trembled, and was so uncertain, as he attempted to grope forward, that West grasped him firmly, helping him slowly toward the foot of the steps.