CHAPTER III.
Yawningly, the professor reached for his watch.
It had run down.
"Evidently they do not wake guests for breakfast," he mused.

"Perhaps," with rising dismay, "there isn't any breakfast to wake them for!" He felt suddenly ravenous and hurried into his clothes.

It is really wonderful how all kinds of problems give place to the need for a wash and breakfast.

Somewhere outside he could hear water running, so with a towel over his arm and a piece of soap in his pocket he started out to find it.

His room, as he had noted the night before, was one of two small rooms under the eaves.