He told them he would prepare beds in the living room for the girls, give his own room to Mr. Merrick and Major Doyle, while he and Wampus would bunk in the storeroom.

"Can't that there new girl bunk with me?"

The Boy and the Colonel turned into their bunks at eleven o'clock.

I had been closely confined to my bunk for two days with illness, but now, somewhat stronger, had been ordered on deck by the surgeon.

CHAPTER XII A FRIEND IN THE FORECASTLE I slowly and regretfully opened my eyes, aroused perhaps by a trampling of feet on the deck above, to find myself lying in an upper bunk of the forecastle.

"I think," said Uncle John, "I'll bunk on the front seat to-night.

Then seem' as how he might expect to have company some time or other, look how he fixed the bunks along the walls.

'We've got to bunk like blazes if we want to save our skins.

" "And what's this bunk about Americans being welcome anywhere?

Fancy throwing money away like that, Bill: seems a sin, don't it?" Bill didn't answer 'im, and that afternoon the other chaps below being asleep we searched 'is bunk through and through without any luck, and at last Bill sat down and swore 'e must ha' got it about 'im.

"Why," the officer went on to say, "when you said that about your aeroplane being taken, it struck me all in a heap; because Frank here was just telling me that two men broke into his shop last night after eleven, and knocked things around, just because they failed to find his hydroplane in its bunk as usual.

This manoeuver had turned French Pete's bunk from the lee to the weather side, and rolled him out on the cabin floor, where he lay in a drunken stupor.

All that remained to be done was the building of three bunks against the ends of the cabin, and this work it was agreed could be accomplished at odd hours by any one who happened to be in camp.

Miguel, without taking off his clothes, lay down in the bunk beneath him, and Robert soon heard him snoring.

The narrowness of the stateroom prevented my taking much part in the affair, but the mulatto needed no help, as he dragged the cursing Spaniard from his bunk to the deck and throttled him savagely.

"If she should begin spitting up a little livelier ..." he speculated with a shrug, and presently took himself off to his bunk after an inspection below had shown that none of the schooner's seams had started.

Then" The boy turned and looked down at Jack, smoking his cigarette and trying to read what lay behind the stolid stare of the twelve men who sat in a solemn row on the bunks opposite him.

" He laid the letter and the enclosed papers on the bunk beside him, and sat there thinking.

The rays of the swinging slush lantern barely illuminated the central space, the rows of bunks beyond remaining mere shadows, yet this dim, yellowish light, fell full upon the excited, half circle of men who were roaring about the negro, and had already pressed him forward until he stood confronting me, his grin of derision changed into a scowl of hate.

" "All safely aboard, Senor; asleep in their bunks by now, but ready.