工程师的拇指 The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb （六）

 ,"How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been,a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was,breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with,dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded,thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the,the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But,to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house,nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the,hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a,long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the,