d Larry. "That thing just broke me all up.
I've been laughing to myself under the blanket ever since."

"Oh! is that so?" Frank replied. "Well, do you know I wondered what
those queer noises were. Thought possibly you had an ache from eating
too much."

"How's everything on deck, Frank?"

"Fine and dandy. Nothing to cause alarm yet," came the answer.

"All right, then. You just crawl in, and get a snooze started. I'll
take care of the camp up to three, when Andy comes on duty. How d'ye
keep awake, Frank?" asked the new guard.

"Keep thinking of the late unpleasantness, as you have been doing. It
did the trick before, and may again. Good night! I'm off."

Frank found no little difficulty himself in getting asleep.
Unaccustomed to his strange bed, and with all the recent excitement
added, it was not strange that even Frank had to take himself severely
to task before he could lose his senses in slumber.

He too dreamed, for had he not also partaken of the same tasty cheese
and toast, of which poor Elephant complained as the main cause for his
troubles? Several times Frank woke up and was puzzled to understand
just where he could be. Then things would come back to again; and with
a chuckle he would turn over, to once more lose himself in sleep.

The third time this happened he lay there listening. It seemed to him
that he had heard a slight rustling noise; and moreover, it had come
from the far end of the shed!

Could it be Larry; and if so what business had the sentry to be
wandering about that section of the forbidden ground? Another fancy
struck Frank, to the effect that it might be either Andy or Stuttering
Nat, walking in their sleep. If that proved to be the case, then the
awakening was likely to surprise somebody, unless he was very much
mistaken.

He put out his hand and felt Andy in his accustomed place. Then
rising quietly he crawled over far enough to come in contact with Nat's
arm, thrust out from his blanket. This left only Elephant, whom he
found slumbering soundly in his canoe, and the sentry, who was also
fast asleep!

Frank felt a thrill pass over him at this. Then the sound could not
have been made by any one of his comrades. Who then was prowling
around that danger zone? Even as he asked himself this important
question he heard a sudden sharp "click!" that could only be made by
the trigger of his dead-fall trap; then came a heavy, sodden, crunching
sound, that told bette