"Wake up, Drone, and help," said Bumbus.
"Oh!" said Drone, "I just dreamed that I was asleep."
"That's one dream that came true," said Bumbus; "now out with him." Bumbus pulled and Drone pushed, and although the latter went to sleep three or four times before they got out of the room, Billy finally found himself in the main factory where Nickel Plate was directing some workmen in taking the lid off of a vat.
"Ah, ha!" said Nickel Plate when he saw Billy. "Now, boy, I will give you a last chance—promise that you will give up all search for Bogie Man and return the note to me and we will free you, otherwise——"
"It will be a case of boil instead of freeze," interrupted Bumbus.
"Then boil!" cried Billy. "I must do my duty while I live."
"In with him!" cried Nickel Plate.
"In with him!" cried Bumbus.
"Yah-haw!" yawned Drone.