...after taking several turns in the room, during want of light, in a room which had no window, and in which they told M. Langlade how many they had killed,...and how many scalps they had taken, they returned down stairs, and I, with sensations not to be expressed, heard the door, which was the barrier between...

...circumstance to which the dark color of my clothes, and the want of light, in a room which had no window in the corner in which I was, must have contributed....not to be expressed, heard the door, which was the oarrier between me and my fate, locked for the second time. "There was a feather bed on the floor;...