Ned over from head to foot and laughed.

"My boy," he said, "you surely know what your eyes were given to you
for. Can you tell by looking at my coat how much money I have in the
pocketbook in the breast pocket?"

"Hardly," laughed Ned, "but I can tell by looking at that light coat you
have on that you went to sleep in your chair last night, with the lower
part wrinkled up under you! Did you sleep that way all night? Own up,
now!"

Captain Godwin blushed through his coat of tan like a schoolgirl.

"To tell you the truth," he said, "I did sleep in my clothes last night.
After I left the Lieutenant at the hut I went home and mixed a little
drink and sat down to read a bit. Well, sir, I fell asleep!"

"And woke up at daylight?" asked Ned.

"Pretty close to it," was the reply. "I awoke with a headache, too!"

"You mixed the drink yourself?" asked the boy.

"Yes; I always do."

"But your servant brought the glass?"

"Why, yes."

"Have you seen the servant to-day?"

"Sure! He got my early breakfast. We have two here, you know."

"Ever sleep like that before?"

"Not here."

Ned looked serious. This was something new. The Captain had without
doubt been drugged, but who had contrived the thing?

"What are you getting at?" demanded Captain Godwin. "You don't think I
was doped, do you?"

"Looks like it," was the reply.

"Then the whole native population is up to something!" shouted the
Captain. "I've noticed a good deal of whispering lately. Do you think
the tribe on the island has gone over to the insurrectos?"

"I don't know," Ned said, "but it seems to me that something is going to
happen here before long."

"I'll watch out," declared the Captain.

"How long have you been in charge here?" asked the boy.

"Two years. There's really nothing to do, but Uncle Sam thinks he needs
a man in charge here, and pays pretty well, and so I've remained. It is
a dull life, and I'm not certain that I don't enjoy this little
excitement."

"Unless I am mistaken," Ned smiled, "it will not be so dull here in the
future. I see trouble for the whole group."

"About a thousand of these brown leaders will have to be killed off
before there will be any security of life or property here," said the
Captain. "The natives would behave themselves if let alone."

"Now," Ned said, "you have been insisting all along that Lieutenant Rowe
voluntarily left the island. Let us see about that."

"I never said he left the island. He