I suppose that I was put to bed, and there lay, unconscious, or half conscious, for many hours (думаю, меня положили в постель, и я пролежал там в бессознательном или полубессознательном /состоянии/ много часов); for it was night when I awoke to my full mind, and found Fritz beside me (потому что была ночь, когда я полностью пришел в себя и увидел Фрица, /сидящего/ рядом со мной;
Without touching the stirrup, he leapt upon his horse and was off like an arrow, pursued by cries and revolver shots – the last as useless as the first – and I sank into my chair, bleeding profusely, as I watched the devil’s brat disappear down the long avenue. My friends surrounded me, and then I fainted.
I suppose that I was put to bed, and there lay, unconscious, or half conscious, for many hours; for it was night when I awoke to my full mind, and found Fritz beside me. I was weak and weary, but he bade me be of good cheer, saying that my wound would soon heal, and that meanwhile all had gone well, for Johann, the keeper, had fallen into the snare we had laid for him, and was even now in the house.
“And the queer thing is,” pursued Fritz (и странная вещь, – продолжал Фриц), “that I fancy he’s not altogether sorry to find himself here (я полагаю, что он в общем-то не жалеет, что оказался здесь). He seems to think that when Black Michael has brought off his coup (он, похоже, думает, что когда Черный Михаэль осуществит задуманное: «свой переворот»;
This idea argued a shrewdness in our captive (эта мысль свидетельствовала о дальновидности нашего пленника;
“And the queer thing is,” pursued Fritz, “that I fancy he’s not altogether sorry to find himself here. He seems to think that when Black Michael has brought off his coup, witnesses of how it was effected – saving, of course, the Six themselves – will not be at a premium.”
This idea argued a shrewdness in our captive which led me to build hopes on his assistance. I ordered him to be brought in at once. Sapt conducted him, and set him in a chair by my bedside. He was sullen, and afraid; but, to say truth, after young Rupert’s exploit, we also had our fears, and, if he got as far as possible from Sapt’s formidable six-shooter, Sapt kept him as far as he could from me. Moreover, when he came in his hands were bound, but that I would not suffer.