Avec un soupir de soulagement Ferrier examinait les environs, lorsque tout a coup ayant regardé a ses pieds, il fut stupéfait d’y voir un homme étendu tout de son long, la face contre terre.
With a sigh of relief, Ferrier looked to right and to left, until happening to glance straight down at his own feet he saw to his astonishment a man lying flat upon his face upon the ground, with arms and legs all asprawl.