He only knew that as he raised himself again from the body there was with him no feeling of repentance, no suggestion of fear, only a grim satisfaction that he had struck so hard, and, above all, that lightning certainty that he had had of God.
His brain was entirely alert.

He did not doubt, as he stood there, that he would be caught and delivered and hanged.

He, himself, would take no steps to prevent such a catastrophe.

He would leave the body there as it was: to-night, to-morrow they would find it,--the rest would follow.

He was, indeed, acutely interested in his own sensations.