"Is he dead ?" he asked, pointing to the figure of his recent assailant.

Cap'n Abernethy, for the first time since Cleggett had known him, gave a direct answer to a question.
"Mighty nigh it," he said, staring down at the young man.

Then he added: "Kind o' innocent lookin' young fellow, at that." "But the other one?
Was he killed ?" asked Cleggett.
"The other ?" George inquired.

"But there was no other.

When we got down there you and this boy----" And George described the struggle that had taken place after Cleggett had lost consciousness.