"What's to hinder? Why don't you lay down and sleep all you want to?"
"It looks like running great risk for all three of us to commit ourselves to slumber when the Indians might steal in and nab every one of us."
Worrell laughed.
"I never seen anybody so backward about asking a favor as you. If I hadn't pumped that out of you, you two would have sat here winking, and blinking, and nodding for hours, just 'cause you had a notion in your heads that there was some danger in going to sleep."
"We may take turns about it," said Jo. "But we could not consent that all of us should be unconscious at the same time."
Again the fellow laughed, as though it was all a capital joke.
"I put in ten, good, solid hours of slumber here last night, and I can't do any more of it before midnight, if I was to be paid a thousand pounds for it."
"And you are willing to stay here a couple of hours while we sleep?"
"Nothing will give me greater pleasure."
"I don't know how we shall ever pay you for your kindness."