"Please don't. I want to sleep on it to-night," answered Harriet laughingly. "I didn't make it for you to pass your last moments on. I made it to sleep on and I propose to have a real sleep there this very night."
However, as a matter of fact, Harriet Burrell was not destined to enjoy her night's rest on the bed of pine boughs.
On the contrary she was destined to pass a most miserable night, in this her first sleep in the open.
CHAPTER XXII
SLUMBERS RUDELY DISTURBED
"Miss Burrell, are you going to sleep outside to-night?" It was the first time Patricia Scott had addressed Harriet in some days.
"Yes, if the weather remains clear," returned Harriet.
"I should like to occupy the other cot in your tent. I wish to be near my friend."
It will be remembered that since the night of the storm, Harriet had been sleeping in a small A tent, in which there were but two cots—one of them occupied by Cora.