I'll 'ave jist to keep you from 'ollerin'-- this way, see--but I won't hurt you; the nose is good enough for breathin'.

I'll see as some one comes to let you out before to-morrow mornin'.

An' now I'll say good-bye, Mr.Waymark.You won't see Slimy in this world again, an' if I only knowed 'ow to say a prayer, why, I'd pray as you mightn't never see him in the next." With one more look, a look at once of wild anticipation and friendly regret, Slimy disappeared.
The relief consequent upon the certainty that no worse could happen had brought Waymark into a state of mind in which he could regard his position with equanimity.

The loss of the money seemed now to be the most serious result of the affair.

Slimy had promised that release should come before the morning, and would doubtless keep his word Waymark had a certain confidence in this, which a less interested person would perhaps have deemed scarcely warrantable.