He tossed the hand back on the body.
And now for the first time he began to hear; and as this lost sense crept back to him he knew that the place was full of moaning, and that somewhere close feet were trampling to and fro.

The noise caused him agony, and he put his two hands to his ears.
He was sitting in this posture when he felt something warm and moist trickle down his body, which was naked to the waist.

He took a hand from his ear and put it to his breast.

It was all wet, but in the darkness nothing could be distinguished.

Suspecting, however, that it must be blood from some wound, and following the smear with his fingers, he found that his shoulder, near the clavicle was pierced right through.