bright ray streaked Willie's golden hair, making it look like silver. He sat up and looked about him, wondering what was the matter, that he and his brother should be lying on the outside of their bed with all their clothes on. Then he remembered.
"Willie!" he cried in a loud whisper, "Willie! wake up!"
"What is it?" asked the boy drowsily.
"Why, we have been asleep, and we had no business to be!" Roy said. "We have lost a lot of time, and we must n't lose another minute. Wake up, I say!" He shook Willie briskly as he spoke, and dragged him into a sitting posture. Willie rubbed his eyes and yawned and presently realized everything. But it seemed as if sleep had cooled his eagerness.
"Oh, Roy—I say, suppose we give it up; just for to-night, anyway!"
"Give it up! Why, you precious little duffer!" Roy stood in the middle of the
