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"Can't be tiht, and I turned over on ain when a loud snorting

gasp made me start and throw off the clothes that lay so heavy onand puzzled Where was I? It was very

dark That was not clothes, but sorasped at it My legs felt heavy and nue that I couldn't make it out

Was I asleep still? I must have been to sleep--heavily asleep, but I

ake now, and--what did itof horror was upon me, and I lay perfectly still I

could not stir for some minutes, and then it all ca for so

heavily, and then insensibly have fallen asleep, and for how long?

That I could not of course tell, but so long that the sand had gone on

trickling in till it had nearly covered ht over s were deeply buried, and it required quite a struggle

to get theed theht ainst ive me pain

There was the sarow

deeper A short ti hard, but now

his breath came softly, and then seemed to cease

That silence had lasted some time, when all at once it was broken by my

companion as I knelt there in the soft sand

"Mars Grant! I say You awake?"