"We'll look out for you, girls," said Thomas. "I will kindle up a good fire, so that it will shine right into your cabin; and you can close and button your door. You need not be one bit afraid to go to sleep. Nothing will come near this fire."
"You are going to keep the camp-fire burning all night, Addison, aren't you now?" said Theodora.
"Oh, yes," replied he, cheerily. "If I don't get too soundly asleep," he added, in a lower voice, at which Tom and Willis laughed, well knowing that it is one thing for a tired party to talk of tending a fire all night, but quite another thing to actually do so, as the morning's cold ashes generally show.
"If I don't miss of it," said Tom, "I'm going to have a rare dish for breakfast. I hope I sha'n't over-sleep."
"What is it?" Ellen asked.
"Oh, you will find out at breakfast," he replied.
"Well, good-night, boys," said Kate. "I hope you will all sleep well, but not so well as to forget the camp-fire."
"No, please now do not let that go out," added Theodora.
"We will look out for it," said Willis—"in the morning!"
Good-nights were interchanged; the girls then went into their cabin and not very long after shut and fastened their door.