"But—but I thought we were in the boat up in the jungle, and—"
"We're here in the palace instead. How's your arm?"
"My arm?" said Harry wonderingly; "I don't know."
"Not very bad, then, old fellow."
"Oh, I recollect now. Here, I'd no business to go to sleep. I ought to have been watching."
"No, you ought not; the King told me that he had sent you boys to lie down."
"Yes, of course, he did," said the lad excitedly; "but oh, what a shame for us to be sleeping here at such a time! I say, has there been any more fighting?"
"Not a bit. The ruffians were sickened by those two boxes of powder they had."
"Oh, I am glad. But I say, Doctor Cameron, how is your wife?"
"Quite well, Hal. She has gone to lie down for a good sleep."