CHAPTER XXII.
So many different kinds of feeling had been chasing around inside of me that I had numb spots in my emotional ornaments and intellectual organs.
The room cleared out of everybody but Doctor Kirby and Colonel Tom and me.

But the sound of the crowd going into the road, and their footsteps dying away, and then after that their voices quitting, all made but very little sense to me.

I could scarcely realize that the danger was over.
I hadn't been paying much attention to Doctor Kirby while the colonel was making that grandstand play of his'n, and getting away with it.
Doctor Kirby was setting in his chair with his head sort of sunk on his chest.

I guess he was having a hard time himself to realize that all the danger was past.

But mebby it wasn't that--he looked like he might really of forgot where he was fur a minute, and might be thinking of something that had happened a long time ago.
The colonel was leaning up agin the teacher's desk, smoking and looking at Doctor Kirby.