“Come, this will never do,” he said, shaking himself wide awake. “I must get a drink of water. Maybe that will make me feel more lively.”
He walked over to where a pail of the liquid had been placed and took a long draught. As he was walking back to his place he started as he saw a bright shaft of light glaring through the trees about half a mile off to the left.
“That looked like a searchlight,” whispered the boy. The next instant the unmistakable chug-chug of an automobile could be heard.
[CHAPTER XXIV.]
FORWARD ONCE MORE.
“If that’s an auto, maybe we can get some batteries,” thought Ned.
He hurried back to the camp-fire and awoke Jerry.
“There’s an auto coming!” exclaimed Ned.
“Where is it?” asked Jerry, at once alive to the situation, and thinking of the batteries, just as Ned had.