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"Here, you might as well keep this while you are at it!" cried Shep, and hurled a dead rabbit ashore. The game was unusually "ripe" and caught Andrew Felps directly across the face. The man staggered back, stumbled over a log and sat down directly in the midst of the scattered campfire! "Hi! Help! I am burning up!" "Gracious, boys, look at that!" burst from Snap's lips.
Chester owned this tract of land." "He did, but he has sold out to the Felps Lumber Company, of which I am the head. Who ar you?" "My name is Charley Dodge." "Humph!! Come from Fairview?" "Yes, sir." "Is it your father who has the interest in the lumber company there?" "Yes, sir." At this discovery Andrew Felps' face grew positively resentful. "I suppose he sent you up here, eh?" he snarled. "No.
In settling the estate the heirs had gone to law, and the rightful possession of the sheet of water with the mountains around it was still in dispute. "One thing is sartin," said the old hunter. "If ye go up thar, ye won't have no Andrew Felps chasin' ye away -as was the case up to Lake Cameron." "No, but we may have the ghost chasing us," answered Giant.
"When did you come from Lake Cameron?" asked Snap, after a pause. "Came from there right now." "Then you saw the Felps crowd at the cabin we built?" queried Whopper. "So you built that shelter?" "We did." "And he drove you off? It was dog mean, that's all I've got to say." "Did he tell you he had bought that land?" went on Snap. "Yes.
To their satisfaction the new cabin did not leak at all, everything remaining as dry inside as before the downpour. "Now we have a cabin worth having," was Snap's comment. "I hope that rain just leaked in all over Mr. Andrew Felps and his crowd." "Oh, don't mention him!" cried Shep. "I hate to even hear the name!"
"And, besides, if he came here he would most likely be back now to see us. No; this is the work of some stranger." "Maybe somebody from the Felps camp," put in Giant, who had come up. "That is possible," said Snap. "Let us see just what is missing," said Shep. They made a careful examination of all the things in the camp.
"I don't believe the ghost had anything to do with this," said Snap. "I think it was either the Felps or the Spink crowd. It looks just like some of their dirty work." "Well, this thing was done within the last three hours," came from the doctor's son. "The question is, what have they done with the boat and our stuff? Of course, we must get them back."
"Who was it, Benny?" "Ham Spink." "Ham Spink!" cried Snap and Shep in concert. "Yes." "Why, he isn't here," said Whopper. "He just came up, threw one snowball, and ran away. I guess he meant to hit somebody else and the snowball hit Mr. Felps instead," went on the small boy. "Don't let him know I told you, or he'll wax me good for it." "I shan't tell Ham," said Snap.
Whopper went outside to bring in some firewood and presently called to the others. "What's wanted?" asked Snap. "Two men are coming this way, from over yonder. Unless I am mistaken they are the two men who were out hunting with Andrew Felps." "So they are!" exclaimed Shop. "What can they be wanting now?" "Maybe they want to drive us away from this lake," suggested Giant.
"Not a bit of coffee, chocolate, sugar, or anything left!" "Boys, this is awful!" wailed Giant. "Who could have done it?" "Maybe the Ham Spink crowd." "Or the Felps crowd." "Or that tramp who made trouble for us before," came from Snap. Then they made a more careful inspection to find their skates also missing and most precious of all all the extra matches and extra ammunition.
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