My breath seemed all to leave me when I moved.

He was coming closer, he was, and in the distance beyont him I could hear the clatter of a horse's feet on the road.

The man on the horse was far off, but he galloped, he galloped.

It must be done now, I thought; now or not at all.

I--I picked up a stone that lay near, I did, and tried to go forward, but fell back, back.