n another direction, and then, with a faint cry of dismay, he
shuffled across the place, making the dry leaves with which the floor
was covered rustle loudly, as he sank upon his knees beside Archie.
"I've got it now," he said to himself. "I remember; but my head's as
thick as wool. He went to sleep, and I sat down to watch till he woke.
Nice watch I've kept! Well, it's a good job those great brutes come
along and woke me up. This must have been their old stable, and if I
don't look out, one of these times they will be shoving that door down
and walking in a-top of us. Poor old chap! He's sound enough now.
Mustn't touch him. It would be a pity to wake him. I couldn't have
been asleep many minutes."

Peter drew away silently and stood for a few moments watching the bright
rays of sunshine that streamed in through the side of the building; and
unconsciously he raised one hand and made a peculiar motion with it as
if he were following the streaks of light from right to left with his
index-finger.

"Seems rum," he muttered; "but it's my head being so thick, I suppose.
Oh, there's that banana I began to eat;" and he stooped down, picked it
up from where it lay amongst the leaves, and then dipped the cocoa-nut
cup into the water, and took a deep draught of the refreshing beverage.

"Ah!" he sighed, as he set down the shell. "Seems to wash the cobwebs
out of one's head. Wonder where those helephants were being driven."

As he muttered he stepped to the door and applied his eye to _one_ of
the cracks through which the sun was streaming, and then drew back, for
the glare affected his eye.

"Shines hot," he muttered; "and it wasn't coming in like that when I
looked through just now, before beginning to eat that banana. Well," he
ejaculated, "it's a rum 'un! I've got it now! Why, I must have been
asleep hours and hours and hours. It ain't this evening. When I looked
it was all turning red because the sun was going down. It's to-morrow
morning, and I've been asleep all night. I'm a nice sort of a chap, I
am, to go on duty and leave my officer in the lurch like that! Well, he
must have been asleep too. There's no gammon about it, for it is
to-morrow morning, and he could not have woke up, because I should have
heared him; so that's all right. Poor chap! And it must have done him
good. But now I can think again, and my head don't ache so much. I
feel better, and there's been no old Job Tipsy to drop upon me