Lo' wants kill Nellie.

No thath no ri'"-- but the potent liquor, overtaking his exhausted senses, thickened, impeded, and at last stopped his speech.

His head slipped to her shoulder, and he became once more unconscious.
Teresa breathed again.

In that brief moment she had abandoned herself to a wild inspiration of hope which she could scarcely define.

Not that it was entirely a wild inspiration; she tried to reason calmly.