Slowly I struggled back to consciousness, only to find myself stretched
at full length upon a heap of mouldy straw, with a black, impenetrable
darkness around me. The place was cold and damp, and as soon as I was
able I rose and commenced to feel the dimensions of my strange
apartment.
It was not large, I found, but its four bare stone walls, through which
water oozed in places, the large iron ring fixed into the masonry, and
the strong iron-bound door, quickly apprised me of my position.