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Some other boys were coming up, and the snowballs began to fly more furiously than ever. Snap, Shep, Whopper and Giant were on one side, and a boy named Carl Dudder and five other town lads on the other side. In the midst of the rallies came a yell of alarm, followed by several loud cries of rage. "Hullo! look there!" exclaimed Whopper. "Old Felps has been knocked into the middle of next month.
"That the rope has been cut." "What does that signify?" asked Andrew Felps. "It shows that the boat didn't drift away. Somebody cut the rope and made off with her." "See here " began Giles Faswig, and then stopped short. There was a shout, and Giant and Shep burst into view. "Got the boat, eh?" cried the doctor's son. "Good!" And then he looked curiously at the men, and so did Giant.
"Hi! hi! who threw that snowball!" roared Andrew Felps, savagely, as he arose to his feet. "You young villains! I'll have the law on you for this!" He scrambled to his feet and glared around him. All of the boys had stopped throwing at once and gazed at him curiously. "Ha! I know you!" went on Andrew Felps, striding up to Snap. "It was you who hit me in the ear and knocked me down!"
You'll try to make it appear that I am in with this -this fellow!" snorted the lumber dealer. "Well, just you take care, or you may get into trouble!" "If I get into trouble I guess I'll know how to take care of myself," returned Snap, stoutly. He had scarcely uttered the words when Andrew Felps caught him roughly by the shoulder. "Boy, take care how you talk to me!"
It was built out of my timber, don't forget that, smarty." "Perhaps you want to steal our outfit," cried Giant, who was boiling with suppressed rage. "Say another word, kid, and I'll throw you into the lake!" roared Andrew Felps. He came at Giant so threateningly that the small boy had to retreat. At last the things were stowed on the rowboat and the four young hunters boarded the craft.
"Maybe we'll get a chance to square up some day," answered Shep. "I think he is more than mean." "Here, leave that cabin alone!" came from Andrew Felps, as Snap began to knock down the front end with the ax. "I may as well take it down, as you don't want it," said the boy. "You leave it alone, I say." "Maybe you want to use it?" sneered the youth. "If so, who is going to stop me?
There could be no doubt but what this Barrock was the man they were after. His tale that he had procured the missing papers from somebody else was pure fiction -gotten up merely to deceive Andrew Felps. "We ought to make him a prisoner on the spot," whispered Shep. "Wait -I want to learn what Andrew Felps will do," murmured Snap.
"Ha! then perhaps you threw the snowball," said the saw mill owner suspiciously. "I did not." "I know you boys, and I have not forgotten your work against me last summer," growled Andrew Felps. "And we haven't forgotten you," answered Snap, coldly. "You have no right to accuse me of something I didn't do." "Bah! If I find out who hit me I'll make it warm for him!"
This is Frank Dawson, and the boy out in the boat is Will Caslette. We all belong at Fairview. As Snap -I mean Charley -says, we came to camp out. We have always understood that this was a free camping-out place. Folks have come to this lake for years." "Well, they are not coming here any more!" cried Andrew Felps. "After this those who come will pay for the privilege."
"If this is true, Snap, the best thing we can do is to go over to the Felps camp and watch out for this Lusher Barrock," said Shep. "And that is what I am going to do," answered Snap. "When will you go?" questioned Whopper. "As soon as possible." "We can't get to the camp very well from here. We'll have to go back to Firefly Lake first." "Do you suppose this Barrock went that way?"
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