appeared more stern. In spite of his opposition to the lawyer and his anxiety at being on a train, Peewee was very sleepy. At intervals his eyes closed unconsciously. When they had done this, a sense of something indefinite but strongly terrifying came to him. It was not connected with Sallet or with his father; they, in fact, disappeared from his consciousness. It was connected vaguely with the clicking of the car wheels on the track and the swaying and rumbling of the car. It was like a dream, but it did not have the definiteness even of a dream, and it awoke him with a start of terror. Each time this happened he saw the lawyer still sternly studying him. Finally his eyes failed to open and he slept.
Peewee awoke in the dim grayness of early dawn. It was so dark that it conveyed the impression that it still was night. His first consciousness that he was without his clothes was followed by the realization that he was in a large, soft bed. What little light there was came through a small square window, and above him there was a sloping, raftered roof.
