“Irv, you take charge while I sleep, and call me if anything happens.”
Two minutes later the lad was deeply slumbering.
[CHAPTER XXIX]
RESCUE
When Phil at last waked, Ed was putting supper on the table, and it was rather a late supper too, for the boys had purposely postponed it in order to let Phil get all the sleep possible. He had in fact slept for fully eight hours.
“Well, how do you feel now, skipper?” asked Will.
“I don’t know exactly,” answered the boy, yawning and stretching. “Stupid for the most part, hungry for the rest of it. I say, what time of day or night is it?”
“It’s about eight thirty P.M.,” answered Constant, pulling out his antique Swiss watch and consulting it.