text:  We were just in bed (having _secured the door as well as we could_ ) when we heard through the imperfect flooring a very animated _melee_ of Welsh tongues all astir at once and I fancied I recognized the voice of the pious Christian in the dark who had been moved by the spirit (of religion of course) to hint or betray his dissent from the Saxon "stranger's" rebuke of perjury and murder-screening