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At times they dozed off in light slumber, but, as far as they knew, their captors did not so much as look in on them. They did not know, of course, when morning came, but they judged that the sun had risen when, after several hours of waiting, a tin can of water and some food was thrust in to them. "And I'm hungry enough to eat even German sausage," announced Macaroni, as he inspected the food.
Then silence followed, excepting for the heavy breathing of the sleepers and the restless tossing of sufferers on their narrow cots. Here and there echoed wild words of delirium, but soon even these faint sounds died away in slumber, while the drowsy night-watch dozed in a chair.
Again we sank into silence. The soft purring of the car seemed to increase our drowsiness. Colder and colder the night air grew in my evening clothes and thin overcoat I felt it very keenly. I suppose I must have dozed, for when, presently, I opened my eyes, the streaks of dawn were visible.
Thus, checking my gloomy foreboding, I too breathed a prayer to God for His infinite mercies, and thereafter fell to pondering how I might supply our more pressing needs with such small means as I possessed; and so in a while, dozed off to sleep.
The angler, who had ceased to frequent the riverside at the approach of winter, returned to the pool, but only by day, and then Lutra dozed in her retreat. In the pines on the margin of the river the blue ringdoves were busy constructing the rude makeshift that was to serve the purpose of a nest.
Although you had no show to offer, you said "ding" three times as is the ancient custom of the stage when the actors are ready and drew them wide apart. The cat was the audience, who dozed with an ear twitching toward your activity. A complaint that springs up in youth and is known as "snuffles" had kept you out of school.
He had already dozed off in that delicious glow that follows the removal of wet clothes and the immediate snuggling under warm blankets, when his consciousness, hovering on the borderland between sleep and waking, was vaguely troubled by a sound that rose indistinctly from the depths of the house, and, between the gusts of wind and rain, reached his ears with an accompanying sense of uneasiness and discomfort.
I strongly suspected that this was the end of the ghost; but I could not help puzzling over the part that Radnor had played in the little comedy if comedy it were. The stories that I had heard about some of his disreputable associates returned to my mind with unpleasant emphasis. I had gradually dozed off, when half waking, half sleeping, I heard the patter of bare feet on the veranda floor.
"I asked," the man's tone was a little sharper, "if there was anything I could do for you?" "Oh, no. No thanks." Hanlon forced himself to pay attention. "I just like dogs and came down here to watch them. Must have dozed off." "Do you have a dog of your own here?" "No, I have no dog at present." "What were you doing to that white bull. He's been acting very peculiar since you've been here." "Me?"
Loth to stir, I still dozed on, the sounds, however, becoming, as it seemed, more determined to make themselves heard; and I awoke to the consciousness that they proceeded from a belt of adjacent jungle, and resembled the noise that would be produced by some person felling timber.
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