One of them carried a lantern; the other turned King's body over with his foot.
"You damned brute," grated the captive.
"Call him what you like, young feller," said his first acquaintance.

"He can't understand a word you say.

Well, do we pull out ?" This to the man with the lantern.
The roof was so low that they were compelled to stoop in moving about.
Truxton saw that the three ruffians were great, brutal-faced fellows, with bared arms that denoted toil as well as spoils.
"Immediate!" said the lantern bearer.

"Come; we drag him to the cave." "Drag?
Nix; we c'n carry him, pard.

I'm not for draggin' him down that passage.