Francis Worcester Doughty

“ I do not think my bitterest enemy would accuse me of cowardice, and I don't think that my trembling just then was the result of cowardice on my part.
Such a feeling as came over me then I never had before and have never had since.
In reaching for the button of the window Woglom's hand was made a prisoner by the same means.
At once both commenced to wildly thrash about with their heels, in an attempt to get loose and make their escape.
"For Heaven's sake," I gasped, "keep your feet quiet. You may set the infernal machine at work." ”

“ I had often thought I could imagine just how a cornered criminal feels, as he gathers himself, in very desperation, for a dash for liberty.
But my imagination had never drawn so vivid a picture as was painted by my situation and its natural feelings at that moment. ”

“ But how to help myself?
Was I to stand there like a stake until I was reached and collared by the gardener and hostler, who had been hastily roused, and whom I could now hear coming with heavy tread down the stairs inside the house?
All the thrashing around of Woglom and his pal had not started the spring guns. ”