I would gladly learn the trick of yon door.

It would be a goodly secret to have for our very own." It was plain that the fugitive, though aware that the room was tenanted, had satisfied himself that the occupants were all asleep.
He had ceased his frightened, furtive looks around him, and was quaffing the last of the water with an air of relish and relief that was good to see, pausing from time to time to stretch his limbs and to draw in great gulps of fresh air through the open window by which he stood, as a prisoner might do who had just been released from harsh captivity.
The moonlight shining upon his face showed it haggard, unkempt, and unshorn.

Plainly he had been several days in hiding; and by the gauntness of his figure, and the wolfish gleam in his eye as it roved quickly round the apartment, as if in search of food, it was plain that he was suffering keenly from hunger, too.
Bertram's decision was quickly taken.

Whilst the man's face was turned the other way, he quickly rose from his bed, and crossing the room with noiseless steps, laid a hand upon his arm.
"Hist, friend!" he whispered whilst the start given by the other, and the hoarse exclamation that broke from his lips, might have wakened sleepers who were not healthy, tired boys.

"Fear not; I am no foe to betray thee.