Then, with a creaking sound, the old beam broke from its rusty fastenings and followed the box.
After that there was another fall, for the boy that had thrown the box went down with the beam.
But that was a fall that Billy did not hear.
CHAPTER X
WILLIAM WALLACE
The next thing that Billy knew he was waking up, not wide awake, but a little at a time.
The room seemed very white, and there was somebody in white standing by his bed. No, it wasn’t Miss King, for this woman had something white on her head.
Then he felt somebody holding his hand and saying, “Billy, little Billy.”
He woke up a little further. He tried to say, “Aunt Mary,” but the words wouldn’t come.