Van Emmon racked his brains to account for the thing.
Then Corrus became drowsy. Van Emmon concentrated with all his
might. At first he overdid the thing; Corrus was not quite drowsy
enough, and the attempt only made him wakeful. Shortly, however, he
became exceedingly sleepy, and the geologist's chance came.
At the end of a few minutes the herdsman sat up, blinking. He looked
around at the dark forms of the cattle, then up at the stars; he was
plainly both puzzled and excited. He remained awake for hours, in
fact, thinking over the strange thing he had seen "in a dream."
Meanwhile Smith was having a similar experience with Dulnop. The
young fellow was, like Corrus, alone at the time; and he, too, was
made very excited and restless by what he saw.
Billie was unable to work upon her bee. Supreme retired to a hive
just before dusk, but remained wide awake and more or less active,
feeding voraciously, for hours upon hours. When she finally did nap,
she fell asleep on such short notice that the architect was taken
off her guard.
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