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Dick , we 've been through some pretty hard times together and had some narrow shaves ; but I do n't care for many more like that ! Come on . Help me out . I want you to take a look and see if my head is any whiter than it was at nine o'clock this mornin ' when we went into that other hole . '' The sunlight was good to see again -- good as only sunlight can be when men have not expected ever again to be enlivened by its glory . They were astonished at the shortness of the time of their imprisonment . They had lived years in dread thought , and but a few hours in reality .