The Approved Selections for Supplementary Reading and Memorizing: In the Schools of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, New Orleans, and Other Cities (1905)

Something unusual, something curiously noticeable–yet he could not exactly tell what–made Bryce go closer to the sleeping man. There was a strange stillness about him–a rigidity which seemed to suggest something more than sleep. And suddenly, with a stifled exclamation, he bent forward and lifted one of the folded hands. It dropped like a leaden weight when Bryce released it, and he pushed back the man’s face and looked searchingly into it.