When his back was thus turned I crept nearer yet.

I would have fired then, but still feared to miss.

Then he bent over thee and lifted thee in his arms.

He could not see me then, he was too much engrossed in his task.

I saw well what he meant to do--to fling thee bound and helpless into the well, where the lost treasure, methinks from his words, must lie.
"The rest thou knowest.