"
"You wouldn't hurt him, Bob, would you?" said Jack.
"Huh." That was all Bob replied. It was enough.
"I wouldn't do a thing to him, either," said Frank. "Except I'd turn
his Kaiser mustaches down so hard they'd never point up again."
Bob and Frank, joint owners of the airplane, grinned at each other.
"Well, fellows," said Jack, "We have got to sleep. So I propose that
we stand guard turn about tonight. It's pretty late now, midnight or
thereabouts, so that if we stand two hour watches, the three of us,
we'll pull through nicely without spoiling Mr. Temple's slumber."
The older man protested he was as able to stand a watch as any of
them, but the boys wouldn't have it so. Finally it was agreed that
Jack should take the first watch of two hours, Bob would succeed him
and Frank would have the last watch. The man keeping watch would sit
inside his bedroom door opening on to the gallery, with Jack's
revolver. As the bedrooms adjoined, while that of Rollins was the
last in the house, it would be easy enough to guard both.
The night passed, however, without incident.
It had been agreed beforehand that after the expiration of Frank's
watch at 6 o'clock there would be no necessity for keeping further
watch.
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