I made the most desperate efforts to call to mind what tools and other things were left in it which might be used against me.

But my agitation confused me.

I could remember nothing except my father's big stone-saw, which was far too heavy and unwieldy to be used on the roof of the cottage.

I was still puzzling my brains, and making my head swim to no purpose, when I heard the men dragging something out of the shed.

At the same instant that the noise caught my ear, the remembrance flashed across me like lightning of some beams of wood which had lain in the shed for years past.