"Those two men?" I said, pondering, and then a light broke upon me, and I thought it singular--as indeed it was--that no recollection, either of the men or the incidents in association with them should have occurred to me since my awaking. "Yes?"
"You are quite safe, sir," said the landlord, "I am glad to find."
"Quite safe, landlord; but why should you be so specially glad?"
"Nothing's happened here then, sir?"
"Nothing."
"That's what brought me round so early this morning, for one thing; I was afraid something might have happened."
"Kindly explain yourself," I said, not at all impatient, but amused rather. "What might have happened?"
"Well, sir, they might have found out, somehow or other, that you were sleeping in the house alone last night"--and here he broke off and asked, "You did sleep here alone last night?"
"Certainly I did, and a capital night's rest I had."
"Glad to hear that, sir. As I was saying, if they had found out that you were sleeping here alone, they might have taken it into their heads to trouble you."