in sleeping. Besides, we'll need all the rest we can get for our journey
to-night."

"Just what I was thinking," said Chester, "and I'm ready to go to sleep
right this instant."

He stretched himself out on the floor and in a few moments was fast
asleep. A short time later and Hal also lay in the arms of Morpheus.

How long the lads had slept, they did not know, but they were awakened by
the sound of voices directly below them.

"No, I have seen nothing of them," came the voice of the woman who had
given them refuge.

"But we have searched every place else," came another voice, speaking in
French, but with a heavy German accent. "They must be here. We found the
bicycles a short distance from this house, and have scoured the woods.
They must be here."

"I say they are not," came the woman's voice, raised in anger.

"Well, I must search the house, at any rate," said the German, "and, if I
find that you have been aiding the enemies of Germany, it will go hard
with you. Stand aside, please."

"I tell you there is no one here," cried the woman.

"Stand aside!" came the German's voice again, and there was the sound of
a struggle, followed by the voice of the German: "Search the house, men."