"Watch tower?" repeated Yellin' Kid, coming to the flap to stand beside Old Billee.
"Lantern?" added Snake.
"Somebody's signalling," went on Bud.
"You'd better come out and we'll have a look. Are you all here?"
"All of us," answered Old Billee. "Come on, Four Eyes!" he cried.
"Tumble out of your bunk. There's somethin' doin'!"
"Four Eyes must have gone to bed early," said Bud to his cousins as they stood outside the tent. For Billee's call indicated that the spectacled cowboy had retired.
"Hi! Four Eyes!" shouted Yellin' Kid, in a voice that would have awakened the proverbial Seven Sleepers. "Turn out!"
There was a moment's pause, during which Buck Tooth came up to the bunk tent from his own special nook for sleeping. And then, the voice of Snake Purdee announced:
"Four Eyes isn't here!"
"Isn't here!" repeated Billee. "Why, I saw him turn in a while ago, when we started t' play cards."