No one answered.

No one was in the lower room; and it seemed that no one was in the upper.

A sort of panic came over me, a fear.

You know they always said at home I was a coward: I could not have remained another minute with that dead man, had it been to save my own life.

I caught up the gun, and was making off, when--" "Why did you catch up the gun ?" interrupted Mr.Carlyle.
"Ideas pass through our minds quicker than we can speak them, especially in these sorts of moments," was the reply of Richard Hare.