"Did you, Harry ?" "Not a rattle," said Hazelton soberly.
Jim Ferrers looked on and grinned behind Alf's back.

The youngster was trembling.

As Tom came near him the "rattle" sounded again.
Within five minutes two more warning "rattles" had been heard near the boy.
"The camp must be full of 'em," wailed the terrified boy.

"And I'm afraid of rattlers." "So am I, Alf," Tom assured him, "but I haven't heard one of the reptiles.

The trouble is with your nerves, Drew.