43/48 You had better turn in now for a long sleep. You must want it badly enough, lad, after the work of the two last nights." Dick slept until his uncle roused him, at six o'clock. It is just as well that you should get up, for two or three hours. After that, you will be good for another sleep till morning. We shall have to look out sharp now, and keep a couple of vedettes always at that village; as, for all we know, this may be the pass by which Tippoo is coming down." Dick got up rather reluctantly, but he was not long in shaking off his drowsiness, and after dinner was able to go through the story again, with full details of his adventures. |