[Dick Prescott’s Third Year at West Point by H. Irving Hancock]@TWC D-Link bookDick Prescott’s Third Year at West Point CHAPTER XXII 1/7
CHAPTER XXII. THE ROW IN THE RIDING DETACHMENT "Wow, what on earth is the fellow doing ?" muttered the puzzled Pierson. Haynes had gone over to his fatigue blouse, the left front of which he was examining very closely. Then the turnback began to mutter indistinctly. "Why, Haynesy is walking and talking in his sleep!" decided Pierson. "Queer! I never knew him to do anything like that before.
He must have something on his mind." Pierson had read, somewhere, that it is never wise to disturb a sleepwalker, there being a risk that the sleepwalker, if aroused too suddenly, may suffer collapse from fright. "I wonder what on earth old Haynesy can have on his mind ?" pondered Pierson.
"Oh, well, whatever it is, it is no business of mine." With that Pierson let his head return to his pillow. "That did the trick for Prescott---ha! ha!" muttered the turnback. "What on earth did the trick, and what trick was it ?" muttered watching Pierson, curious despite the admitted fact that it was all none of his business. After a few moments more Haynes went back to his cot, pulled the sheet and a single blanket up over him, and became quiet. "It wouldn't do any good to ask Haynesy anything about this," decided Pierson.
"He won't remember anything about it in the morning." So Pierson went to sleep again.
When he awoke in the morning he was more than half inclined to believe that he had dreamed it all. The general reviews were drawing toward their close.
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