27/62 And she sobbed when she thought I was killed! ... I've got to get a real night's rest if I want to have my wits about me to-morrow." He stretched himself out luxuriously in the cool bed, and in less than five minutes he was sleeping as sweetly and as deeply as a child. Long experience in the European trenches and elsewhere had taught him the rare gift of slumbering at will, a gift which had done much toward keeping his nerves and his faculties in perfect condition. For sleep is the keynote to more than mankind realizes. Apart from stiffness and a very sore head his inured system was little the worse for the evening's misadventures. |