FEVER, FEAR, AND TROUBLED SLEEP
The next thing Tony knew, he was in ancient Pompeii. He was in the buried city before it had been buried!
"How could this be?" you ask. "A person cannot live in the past!"
Ah, but Tony had arrived upon a queer ship. The name of the ship was Fever, Fear, and Troubled Sleep.
Tony really and truly lay upon the ground dreaming. He lay where he had fallen when we last left him. But, in his dream, he was in old Pompeii. Old Pompeii appeared to him just as Anna's father and the guide had told about it.
Tony believed that he lay in a corner of the Forum, the main square of the town. It was night, and a group of beggars slept beside him. Tina cuddled snugly in his arms.
All about him slumbered Pompeii with the smoke from Vesuvius curling above in the black sky.
Tony looked up at the fire-mountain and, all at once, his heart seemed to stand still. Why, that volcano was going to destroy Pompeii! It was written in books of history! Everyone in the modern world knew it!
But here nobody knew it. How could they? They were ancient people. He was living in the past. Tony, the beggar boy, was the only one who knew! He must tell them!
He stood up. He saw those beautiful homes and gardens he had heard so much about. Tomorrow they would be in ruins!