Part 10 (2/2)
”What's the ! What ails _you_?” retorted Frank
”Nothing, but you _breathe_ so hard--sort of choky and gaspy”
”That's you doing _that_,” said Frank ”I can't sleep with you snorting so”
”I tell you it's you!” said Bill ”I listened tojust like this” He gave a sample, and you could not hear hian to happen
Frank ht leap from his bed and landed on top of the stunned, scared and astonished Bill
”Sssssh!+” hissed Frank ”The money! Robbers! Under the bed!”
Frozen with horror, the boys listened intently The breathing _was_ under Bill's bed It see for a week before Bill rasp
”Where you going?” hissed that youth
”To light the light and give the alaret out, ill hold him”
”Stay here!” commanded Frank
For answer Bill wrenched himself free and bounded out on the floor With another bound he reached the light and turned the button No light responded He stood beside the wall, uncertain whatseeo out and find Mr Nealum In either case ould the robber do to Frank, as roosting right above hi under the bed continued, now fast, no, up and down Bill had heard soht subsided, he recognized the sounds as very familiar Bill had not lived in the apart Too, too often had he listened to the sounds that trickled clearly through the plaster-board partitions Those partitions were like sounding boards
Frous-on on the other side Bill laughed soundlessly in the dark The lights had been turned off at some central switch, and the darkness was intense He was lost in the strange roo the wall and stubbed his toe against a suitcase Bending, he found that it was his own The probleht
”Frank!” he called in a lohisper
”W-hat?” quavered fro the direction of the low sound, Bill crossed the room until his outstretched hand collided with Frank's eye This mostly happens, you know Frank stifled a howl as Bill hissed, ”Listen! We have hi Let's take a look at him and then beat it for Mr
Nealum He must be somewhere about”
”Don't you do it!” whispered Frank, clutching Bill ”Find Mr Nealuht in his eyes and you ake hiet to the door”
”Think what a lark it will be if we take him prisoner all by ourselves!
We can tie him up with these sheets in no time Now I tell you hoork it As soon as we see just how he is lying, I will shove the bed off hiood and plenty with that dictionary Soon as you do that I will throw all the blankets and bedclothes and the mattress on hiht to come”
Frank still objected, sure fronizable as snores, that the robber was really in a deep sleep
”If he is anything like Lee,” he said, ”he will throw us off in a second”
”But you are going to lah to knock him out--stun him”
”Well, have it your oay!” conceded Frank He commenced to realize what a wonderful introduction this would be to the boys of the school if it went through as smoothly as Bill seeht, but don't turn it on,” whispered Bill ”I want to get the bedclothes ready”