has not been shaved very recently, but he don't look at all

ferocious notwithstanding. Stop, though! Let me first see that

Stepping before them, he looked into the room. Motioning them to

advance, he closed the door when they had entered; and gently

drew back the curtains of the bed. Upon it, in lieu of the

dogged, black-visaged ruffian they had expected to behold, there

lay a mere child: worn with pain and exhaustion, and sunk into a

deep sleep. His wounded arm, bound and splintered up, was