Are you sure he spoke?
Of course he must have spoken for you could not have known.

Yes, his heart is still beating." Colonel Zane raised his head from the unconscious man's breast, where he had laid it to listen for the beating heart.
"Clarke, God bless you for saving him," said he fervently.

"It shall never be forgotten.

He is alive, and, I believe, only exhausted, for that wound amounts to little.

Let us hurry." "I did not save him.