TI2 ALL ABOARD FOR SUNRISE LANDS.

hotel door, then his footsteps sounded on the stairs, and finally the
boys caught the rattling of a key in the lock of an adjoining door. -
All was now still. Ralph fell asleep. Two eyes were left staring
at the moonlight, but Rick began to be drowsy and one eye ceased
its watch. At last the snowy moonlight was searching everywhere,
but not an eye was open to follow its progress over |the floor.

The next morning, Rick said to Uncle Nat: ‘“‘ Were not you afraid?”

“Afraid? No, they
have earthquakes too often
for that.” -

“ But don’t they do harm
Uncle Nat?”

“ Well, yes, sometimes ; I
heard a man at the break-
fast table say that years
ago, there was a very
malicious earthquake. It
shook and shook and shook,
and it brought down heavy
roofs of tiles, and sixty
thousand people were
= _ crushed to death. I un.

THE ROUND MOON.

 

_ derstand there was a heavy
one recently, a great chimney-tumbler. There are generally three —
shocks and the second is the worst.”

The next night, the earthquake came again. Uncle Nat in the
meantime had changed his room, and when Ralph and Rick, aroused
by tos chock, left their bed to slip on their clothes and hunt fer Uncle
Nat ir fis new quarters, they stole along the entry guided by the
moonlight, only to find and enter — whose room ?