At half past eight the question, grown deadly by repetition, was asked, and, when only a curse came, Willet said: "As it is night I'll ask you, Achille Garay, for your papers only once every four hours.

That is the interval at which we'll change our guard, and we don't wish, either, to disturb you many times in your pleasant slumbers.

It would not be right to call a man back too often from the land of Tarenyawagon, who, you may know, is the Iroquois sender of dreams." Garay, whom they had now laid tenderly upon the floor of the hut, turned his face away, and Willet went back to the fire, humming in a pleased fashion to himself.

At half past twelve he awoke Garay from his uneasy sleep and propounded to him his dreadful query, grown terrifying by its continual iteration.

At half past four Tayoga asked it, and it was not necessary then to awake Garay.