I wish we had a lantern and a box of dominoes! I wonder whether there is a box in the laager ?" "Bother!" he said, in a low smothered tone, with his hands covering his face.

"I wish you wouldn't! I was dreaming about old Anson and that he'd got ten thousand pounds' worth of diamonds in a bag aboard his wagon." "Like enough!" continued Ingleborough, in his natural voice.

"Ha, ha, ha!" he laughed.

"I should like to serve the beggar out!" "How ?" he said, in the smothered sleepy voice.
"How?
I'll tell you how it might be done if he had got them.

Find out where his wagon is in the laager, and then wait till the sentry's asleep, and crawl out of this thing, and nobble the lot." "Rubbish!" "Not it! We could get them easily enough and bring them back here.
Nobody would suspect us! But there would be no getting them away! I say, are you asleep again ?" "No," said West quietly.