"Why did he not come up?"
"Because I covered the trap over with the big stones, and Monty helped me."
"Surely he didn't tell you to dreg the stones on to the trep?"
"Yes, he did, but not then. It was before, when Flower wanted to get up, and crawl away and tell, because he thought he was going to die."
"Was Flower down there with him?"
"Yes; that's why Monty and I put the big stones on the trap."
"Flower was hert, wesn't he, shot in the beck, I think?"
"Yes; he crawled in all the way on his hands and knees, and I helped his wife to tie him up, till the doctor came, the morning that I found Steevy."
"How do you know thet Stephen wes esleep?"
"He told me."