One effort more! I win the victory--I wake! * * * * * "Sakes alive!" says a familiar voice; "you HAVE had a spell of sleep! I got home about two, nearly starving, and I found you here curled up 'in a rosy infant slumber,' as the song says.

So I hunted up the Colonel and had lunch, for it seemed a sin to disturb you.

It's just struck four.

Shall we have some tea up here ?" I looked at Mrs.Everard, and smiled assent.

So I had been sleeping for two hours and a half, and I had evidently been dreaming all the time; but my dreams had been as vivid as realities.