I saw the flash of steel.

...

I believe I laughed in her face as I fell.

When I came to she was lying with her head on my breast--dead--stone dead." Lady Belward sat with closed eyes, her fingers clasping and unclasping on the top of her cane; but Sir William wore a look half-satisfied, half-excited.
He now hurried his story.
"I got well, and after that stayed in the North for a year.

Then I passed down the continent to Mexico and South America.