"He has brought me through a good many dangers, and He will not forsake me." After such an experience, it was impossible that sleep should return to the eyes of the lad.

He resumed his old perch, but only because it was the most comfortable.

Had he believed that there was a possibility of slumber, he would have fought it off, but there was not.
"I'll wait here till morning," he said to himself.

"It must be close at hand; and then, maybe, they will go away." He looked longingly for some sign of the breaking of day, but the moonlight, for a long time, was unrelieved by the rose-flush of the morning..