He had been shot down with an ammonia gun, and the powerful alkaloid gas
had almost killed him. For a long time he breathed in gasps, but his
splendid constitution pulled him through.
When they saw that he was recovering, the two men left the room, after
examining the iron-barred windows, and as they went out they locked and
barred the door behind them.
CHAPTER XVII.
MURDER IN THE HAUNTED HOUSE.
Ted lay for a long time only half conscious.
But gradually his senses returned, and he opened his eyes to find
himself in darkness, trying hard to think what had happened to him.
He knew that he had been felled by something powerful and terrible, that
had knocked him in a heap so suddenly that he hardly knew what had
happened to him.
Slowly the consciousness of it all came to him. Some one in an
automobile had ridden alongside him and thrown ammonia in his face.
His eyes were still smarting with it, and he wondered, seeing no light,
if it had blinded him, and he was now lying in the dark when there was
light all around him.
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