We can pretend that we had to go on an errand, or for some fishing bait or something of the sort.

We mustn't let them know we have been looking for them." It was after midnight when the boys turned in.

They, too, went sound asleep directly they rolled up in their blankets in their little tent.
Two hours later while the Tramp Club were oblivious to sound and time, the alarm clock on the "Red Rover" went off with a thrilling whirr.

The girls sprang from their cots, Margery and Tommy protesting over being awakened at that unseemly hour, as they characterized it.

Harriet lighted the oil stove and put the kettle on.