Chapter 16 No.16

By a Hair's-Breadth

Tap, tap, tap, tap-tap, tap-tap, tap, tap-sounded in Ben's ears before he was fully awake and conscious. He sat up in bed and listened, and asked himself what that sound was. Was it rain? At the thought his heart grew heavy with apprehension. Rain on this day, when he and Bert and Tom were going to auto ten miles over to the