Mebbe I'm the real King o' France, after all, an' my instincts are handed down to me from a thousand royal ancestors." "Mebbe it's so," rejoined Long Jim.

"I've heard that thar hev been a pow'ful lot uv foolish kings." With that he put his two blankets upon the floor, lay down upon them, and was sound asleep in five minutes.

But Shif'less Sol beat him to slumberland by at least a minute, and the others were not more than two minutes behind Sol.
Henry was the first up the next morning.

A strong voice shouted in his ear: "Henry Ware, by all that's glorious," and a hand pressed his fingers together in an iron grasp.

Henry beheld the tall, thin figure and smiling brown face of Adam Colfax, with whom he had made that adventurous journey up the Mississippi and Ohio.
"And the others ?" was the first question of Adam Colfax.
"They're all here asleep inside.