CHAPTER XXVII.
MERRIWELL'S FRIENDS.
The time was well on toward morning before Merriwell and Hodge turned in to try to get some sleep.

No more mysterious sounds or ghostly appearances had been heard or seen.

The sun was scarcely up when they were aroused by a trampling of feet and the sounds of well-known voices in the corridor.

A rap fell on Merry's door.
"Arise, ye sleepers, and wake--I mean, awake, ye sleepers, and rise!" shouted Harry Rattleton.
"Come out here and let me pull you out of bed!" grunted Bruce Browning.
"He is sleeping like the sleeper in the sleeper which runs over the sleeper and does not awaken the sleeper in the sleeper which----" "You give us that sleepy feeling yourself, Danny!" Bink Stubbs grumbled.
Merry tumbled out of bed, unlocked the door, and thrust his head into the corridor.

Before him were Bruce and Diamond, Rattleton and Dismal Jones, Bink and Danny, and through the half-open door leading into the office he also caught a glimpse of Elsie Bellwood and Bernard Burrage.
"Glad to see you!" he cried.