The fellow took some kind of hitch around the trunk of the tree to hold me-----" "Yes; I see the hitch," assented Dick.

"It was well done." "So well done that it held me, for a moment," Dave went on.

"The noose choked me, for a brief space, so that I didn't have much presence of mind.

Before I recovered myself, the fellow had passed the rope several times around my body and arms, and had taken the extra loops on my arms.

By that time I was so helpless that I couldn't stir to free myself." "And you didn't see the fellow ?" asked Dick.
"Not a glimpse of him.