His watch had stopped, the water having worked itself in under the case, and he had no means of knowing the time. He sat with his back propped against a tree and despite the uncomfortable position it was not long before he fell asleep.
He did not know how long he slept but it could not have been very long for when he awoke with a sudden start dawn was just breaking in the East.
“Well a little nap was better than none,” he mused as he rose and stretched himself.
He waited a few minutes longer until the light had increased enough to enable him to see his way and then started off along the shore of the lake. He could only guess how far it was back to the camp but he knew that if he followed the shore far enough he was bound to reach his destination sooner or later. But he was in fact much nearer than he thought for inside of twenty minutes he saw the cabin, which he had left a few hours before, looming up through the trees.
“I wonder if Jack has missed me,” he thought as he took the door key from his pocket and silently pushed it into the key hole.
He stood and listened a moment as he stepped inside the room and could hear the deep regular breathing of his brother from the little bed-room.
“Bet he hasn’t opened his peepers,” he chuckled as he quickly slipped out of his wet clothes and jumped into bed.
He was asleep almost instantly and the next he knew Jack was shaking him vigorously by the shoulder.
“Make it snappy there,” he cried. “The breakfast horn blew some time ago and if you don’t hurry up you’ll get left on the eats.”
Bob was out of bed in an instant and began to pull on his clothes.