Tobias, at same moment, in sudden fright, allowed the second lamp to fall into the water, and then crept up the steps in darkness to the crypt, where the engine was at work.
As he did so the man's leg seemed to part from the body, which fell back with a sullen plunge into the dark water beneath.  Tobias, at same moment, in sudden fright, allowed the second lamp to fall into the water, and then crept up the steps in darkness to the crypt, where the engine was at work.  He there saw, dangling from the rope he had lately carried down the shaft, the limb he had