In fact, all became a vacancy till the next morning, and then I was conscious of a terrible headache, and of a room with a window through which a cat might have climbed without endangering its spine--a very dexterous cat.
"Well," I mused, softly nursing the lump on my head, "here's the devil to pay, and not a cent to pay him with." It was evident that, without knowing it, I had become a very important personage..