If I wake often I'm likely to hear the scoundrel if he starts anything around here--when he--thinks--we're--so drowsy that we're dead to the world--and--_gullup_!" That last exclamation was a snore.

Dan was conscious of waking once, though at what time he did not know.

He noted that the fire seemed to have burned very low, and that it was almost wholly dark within the cabin.

Then he dozed.

When he awoke once more he could see no glow whatever from the fire.