I think 'twas a dagger.

It looked like a small bayonet I'll tell you how--all, by-and-by.' He sipped a little wine and water, and wiped his lips with a very tremulous handkerchief.
'I never spoke of it, for I could not.

The whole of that five minutes' work slipped from my mind, and was gone quite and clean when I awoke.
What I saw I could not interrupt.

I was in a cataleptic state, I suppose.

I could not speak; but I saw like a lynx, and heard every whisper.