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On their way back to their own camp they met the big bear, and in fright dropped the meat and ran for their lives. When they got to the camp they told Andrew Felps of the result of the trip. "Well, we can't stay here without ammunition," said the lumber merchant, in disgust. "I bought up all Riley had, and Jackson said he wasn't going to get any more of those sizes of cartridges until next week.
"Folks down at Fairview said you were going to Lake Cameron." "So we were, but Mr. Andrew Felps came along and drove us away." "And after we had built a cabin, too," put in Giant. "Huh! that's just like him," responded Jed Sanborn, as he bumped alongside of the rowboat with his canoe "He told me I couldn't hunt or fish around that lake either."
Snap knew that Ham and Carl were in far from a friendly humor. Through one boy he had learned how Carl had been treated by his father, and through another how Andrew Felps had discovered that Ham had been his aggressor. There had been a lively interview when Mr. Felps and Mr. Spink had met, and in the end the latter had said he would stand for all damage done.
"Well, what do you want of me, anyway, Barrock?" they heard Andrew Felps say to the man with the red hair. "I want to talk business," answered Lush Barrock, as he was commonly called. "Well, get to business, then," went on the lumber merchant. "I am not going to stay here all day. You said you had something to say that would interest me." "It's true, too, Mr. Felps." "Well, out with it, then."
Felps' land he thinks he is justly entitled to it, but at the same time " "I don't think we want the deer now," said Snap. "We have plenty of other game, and you acted so hateful about it you can keep it." He looked at his chums and they nodded, to show that they agreed with him. The two men looked rather dissatisfied.
"Well, I am hungry now and no mistake," said Whopper. "I think I could eat snakes' eggs on toast or pickled eels' feet." The camp-fire made things look more cheerful, and a hearty meal did much toward restoring good humor. Yet the boys felt sore over the way Andrew Felps had treated them, and for this they could not be blamed. "To-morrow we'll have to locate all over again," said Snap.
A while after the boys got home, it was learned that Andrew Felps had escaped with his party, unharmed, but all had lost practically everything they had taken along but the launch. The forest had been much damaged, especially that tract which the Felps Lumber Company had purchased for cutting purposes, so the lumber merchant was out in more ways than one.
"To sell them?" said Shep, looking puzzled. "Exactly. They are of no use to him, but they might be of use to Andrew Felps and his lumber company." "You mean that by getting the papers Felps might keep your folks from cutting down the lumber on that tract?" "Yes, and more. Felps may have some way of getting hold of the land himself, if these papers are destroyed.
But I want these young rascals to understand that they can't come on my land," answered the lumber dealer. "Mr. Felps, we are not young rascals," said Shep, with flashing eyes. "We shot the deer in good faith and if you take it from us I shall consider it stealing." "Listen to that!" ejaculated Vance Lemon. And after we wounded the deer first, too!"
"Would Felps be mean enough to buy the papers from him?" asked Whopper. "Why, that would be dishonest!" "I think that man is mean enough for anything!" burst out Giant, who was not inclined to forget how badly he and his chums had been treated by the individual in question.
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