Yet, after a while, he lay down, when his turn at the guns ceased, and slept through sheer exhaustion.

His eyes closed to the thunder of cannon and they awoke at dawn to the same heavy thudding.
The fire had not ceased at any time in the course of the night, and Sumter looked like a ruin, but the flag still floated over it.
St.Clair and Langdon were awakened a few minutes later, and they also stood up, rubbed their eyes, stared at the fort and listened to the firing.

Harry laughed at their appearance.
"You fellows are certainly grimy," he said.

"You look as if you hadn't seen water for a month." "We can't see ourselves, old Wait-and-See," retorted Langdon, "but I guess we're beauties alongside of you.

If I didn't have the honor of your acquaintance, I wouldn't know whether you came from the Indian Territory, Ashantee or the Cannibal Islands." "And the music goes merrily on," said St.Clair.