ee times already,
but I know something will get me between the electric switch and the
bed."

David laughed at her, but said obligingly, "Well, jump in and cover up
your head with a pillow, and get yourself settled, and I will turn off
the lights myself."

"It is a sin and a shame and I am a selfish little coward," Carol
condemned herself, but just the same she was glad to avail herself of
the privilege.

A little later the white colony on the mesa was in darkness. But Carol
could not sleep. The blankets over her head lent a semblance of
protection, but most distracting visions came to her wide and burning
eyes.

"Are you asleep, David?" she would call at frequent intervals, and
David's "Yes, sound asleep," gave her momentary comfort.

But finally he was awakened from a light sleep by a soft pressure
against his foot. Even David started nervously, and "Ghosts" flashed
into his logical and well-ordered brain. But no, it was only the soft
and shivering form of his wife, curling herself noiselessly into a ball
on the foot of his cot. David watched her, shaking with silent
laughter. Surreptitiously she slipped an arm beneath his feet, and
circled them in a deadly grip. If the ghosts got her, they would get
David's feet, and in her girlish mind ran a half acknowledged belief
that the Lord wouldn't let the ghosts get as good a man as David.

Wretchedly uncomfortable as to position, but blissfully assured in her
mind, she fell into a doze, from which she was brought violently by a
low whisper in the room:

"Mrs. Duke."

"Oooooooo," moaned Carol, diving deep beneath the covers.

David sat up quickly.

"Who is there?"

"It is I, Miss Landbury," came a frightened whisper. "Can't I stay
with you a while? I can't go to sleep to save me,--and honestly, I am
scared to death."

This brought Carol forth, and with warm and sympathetic hospitality she
turned back the covers at the foot of the bed and said:

"Yes, come right in."

David nudged her remindingly with his foot. "Since there are two of
you to protect each other," he said, laughing, "suppose you go in to
Carol's bed, and leave me my cot in peace."

This Carol flatly refused to do. If Miss Landbury was willing to share
the foot of David's cot, she was more than welcome. But if she meant
to stand on ceremony and go into that awful big black room without a
minister, she could go by herself, that was all. Carol lay down
decidedly, and considered t