Chapter XIV. 'Le Roi est mort--vive le Roi.
Toward daylight of the same morning, Tom Canty stirred out of a heavy sleep and opened his eyes in the dark. He lay silent a few moments, trying to analyse his confused thoughts and impressions, and get some sort of meaning out of them; then suddenly he burst out in a rapturous but guarded voice--
"I see it all, I see it all! Now God be thanked, I am indeed awake at last! Come, joy! vanish , sorrow! Ho, Nan! Bet! kick off your straw and hie ye hither to my side, till I do pour into your unbelieving ears the wildest madcap dream that ever the spirits of night did conjure up to astonish the soul of man withal! . . . Ho, Nan, I say! Bet!"
A dim form appeared at his side, and a voice said--
"Wilt deign to deliver thy commands?"
"Commands? . . .
