Outside everything was very quiet, and scarcely a sound came to their ears.

All nature seemed to have gone to rest; not a whippoorwill chanted nor an owl hooted about the old buildings.

Before long Catherine fell peacefully asleep.

Theodora, however, who was rather ill at ease in these wild surroundings, had determined to stay awake, and lay listening to the crickets in the grass under the "saloon." But crickets make drowsy music, and at last she, too, dropped asleep.
Not very much later something bumped lightly against the front end of the "saloon" outside; the noise was repeated several times.

Oddly enough, it was not Theodora who waked, but Catherine.