"Say, you gave me an _aw_ful scare! I thought it must be some old tramp that grabbed me, sure I did.

It's all right now, Hugh, and I'm not wanting to clear out, since I know who you are.

That's Thad, too, I reckon, holding my little flash-light.

How you did startle me, though.

I never dreamed anybody was around here when I started to come back after my watch." "What's that you say ?" gasped Thad; "your watch?
Tell that to the marines, Leon Disney!" "But it's so, I tell you.