So beds were made comfortably enough on the seats which ran along the sides.
Here our adventurers could sleep quite soundly. Barney and Pomp were soon in the land of dreams.
But Frank Reade, Jr., could not successfully woo the gentle goddess.
Suddenly, as he lay there in a reverie, a sudden curious manifestation caused him to start up.
A ray of something, a trifle brighter than the moonlight, glinted its radiance athwart the wire netting.
For an instant Frank was puzzled.
He rose to a sitting posture and glanced out upon the level plain.
All was plain in the moonlight out there. But no sign of life was to be seen.
Then Frank turned his gaze toward the forest, and there he caught the vivid glimmer of a light.
Certainly it was not moonlight glinting on any bright substance, but such a vivid radiance as could only be made by firelight.