Don't forget I had him before me, and really he was too much like one of us not to be dangerous.

But if you want to know I don't mind telling you that I did, with a rapid glance, estimate the distance to the mass of denser blackness in the middle of the grass-plot before the verandah.

He exaggerated.

I would have landed short by several feet--and that's the only thing of which I am fairly certain.
'The last moment had come, as he thought, and he did not move.

His feet remained glued to the planks if his thoughts were knocking about loose in his head.