I--I am a prisoner, although I do not in the least know why.

When did you come ?" "Not more than two hours ago.

Two men brought me across the desert from Haskell." "I do not know how I came.

I was unconscious until I woke up in that cell.

I was on the platform of an observation car the last I remember," his utterance slow, as though his mind struggled with a vague memory, "talking with a gentleman whom I had met on the train.
There--there must have been an accident, I think, for I never knew anything more until I woke up here." "Do you know how long ago that was ?" He shook his head.
"It was a long while.