He noted this even while it seemed that every one of his faculties was frozen up.

He felt that he could move neither hand nor foot; and somehow he knew that since, because of the chain, he could not leave the bench, he must sit upright.

And so he stiffened his back, laid his hands on his lap, and waited with his eyes on the gun.
Through the port-hole he could see the English gunner.

He saw the fuse in his hand.

He counted the seconds; wondered, even, how the fellow could be so deliberate.