"I
know I shall have the nightmare. Oh!"
"We will roll you over if you do," answered Jane. "There's nobody but
ourselves to hear you, either, so you may yell all you please, and----"
"No!" protested Tommy. "If Buthter yellth I'll yell, too, and wake up
all the retht of you."
"Then you'll be attended to then and there," Jane warned her.
"You let me alone. I will let you know when I get ready for your
thervithes. You needn't go on talking about me, either. You make me
nervouth, ath Buthter sayth."
Janus began his preparations for the night. These consisted
principally in taking each girl's rope and securing it to his own belt,
which he had taken off for the purpose of making the ropes fast to it.
They watched him with keen interest.
"Just a precaution," he explained. "If any one of you moves in the
night I shall know it."
"My grathiouth!" shuddered Tommy, "ithn't it exthiting?" She made a
ridiculous face at the guide's broad back.
The girls tried hard not to laugh, but Margery giggled audibly,
bringing a frown from the guardian. Tommy, however, declared that she
would not roll up in her blanket, that she would fold it over her, so
she could get up without disturbing the camp.
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