And you've got sentries outside your windows.

What a pity it is that we ain't in a climate where one can fasten the windows, and boult the shutters! But now the wet season is over again, ye might have yer bed put, as ye did last year, on the roof of your room, with a canopy over it to keep off the dew.

Ye would be safe then, except from anyone coming through the room where I sleeps." Charlie's bedroom was at the angle of a wall, and on two sides he could look down from his windows, two hundred feet, sheer into the valley below.

The view from the flat terraced roof was a charming one, and, as Tim said, Charlie had, in the fine weather, converted the terrace into a sleeping room.

A broad canopy, supported by poles at the corner, stretched over it, and even in the hottest weather the nights were not unpleasant here..