We'll teach these rebs that it isn't healthy to go prowling about here at night." Frank hastily reloaded his musket, and they waited, impatiently, for nearly an hour, for the other guerrilla to show himself, but the woods remained as silent as death.
"I guess that shot finished them," said the corporal; "so I will go and turn in.

Keep a good look-out," he added, turning to Frank, "and don't expose yourself too much." Woods and the corporal then went into the cabin, and Frank was left to himself.

A feeling of loneliness he had never before experienced came over him.

At first he determined to go and call his cousin to come and stand watch with him, so that he would have some one to talk with; but, on second thought, he remembered that Archie was to come on watch at two o'clock, and probably would not like to be disturbed.

Besides, if he called him, it would look as though he was a coward, and afraid to stand his watch alone; so he gave up the idea, and remained in his place of concealment.