text:  Of course we had soon plenty of volunteers who were ready to be useful in any way; and when at last the police had made their appearance and removed both the living and the dead and Chesterton had been laid in Brown's room and the surgeon having applied the usual remedies had composedly accepted Mrs Nutt's offer to make up a bed for him and betaken himself thereto as if such events were to him matters of everyday occurrence--I suppose they were--it struck me for the first time that there was a remarkable contrast between Brown's hurried manner and disturbed countenance now compared with his perfect coolness and self-possession while the danger seemed most imminent which even Chesterton's dangerous state did not sufficiently account for