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Then he recollected that Thede had first called his attention to the ugly image whose evil eyes seemed to take on malevolent expressions in the light of the dancing flames. "It must be all true, then," he concluded. "The man by the fire, the Little Brass God on the shelf, the pistol shots, and then a blank." He wondered where Thede had gone, and why he had deserted him.
The boys worked over the exhausted lad some moments, and then he opened his eyes. "Now for the love of Mike!" exclaimed Tommy, "don't look around and say 'Where am I? The correct thing to say in these modern days is 'Vot iss? Do you get me, Thede?" "Why, it's Tommy!" said the boy. "Betcher life!" returned Tommy. "Did you run all the way up here from Clark street?
Thede pointed to the cavern where the two bears had been discovered. "There's where we went in," he explained, "but the cavern where the fire and the Little Brass God were is right under that one." "How're we going to get to it?" "If you want to take your chance on meeting the bears, you can drop down through the opening from the floor above." "But isn't there an opening to this lower cavern?"
"Put your head inside the cave," Thede suggested, "and you won't be wondering whether there are any bears here." George did as requested, and soon the warm animal odor noticeable in the various zoos of the country attacked his nostrils. "What kind of bears are they?" he asked. "I've heard Pierre say there were black and brown bears," replied Thede.
Thede answered in a dejected tone, "but I hope he'll stop when we come to the hills." "He does seem to be heading for the hills," Sandy replied. "If he'll only stop when he gets there, I may be able to catch my breath again!" "Cheer up!" laughed Thede. "The worst is yet to come!"
"Because," replied Thede, "just as he was reaching up to the wall of the cavern to take hold of the Little Brass God, he got a tunk on the coco that put him out for the count." "What do you know about the Little Brass God?" asked Tommy. "I've seen it!" answered Thede.
"Now, what do you think of that for catching fish?" demanded the boy. Oje gave a satisfied grunt at this evident appreciation of his services, and motioned the lads to continue their sport. Next Thede caught a gray trout somewhat smaller than the fish landed by Sandy, and then another three-pound speckled trout was landed.
Jim effected his purpose, and returned before light the next morning, and on the following day he took Mr. Balfour and Thede down the river, and delivered them to the man whom he found waiting for them. The programme was carried out in all its details, and two days afterward the two boys were sitting side by side in the railway-car that was hurrying them toward the great city.
There were few spaces of a length of twenty-five feet in which the track of some wild beast or bird did not cross their path. Thede read this writing in the snow so understandingly that the boys actually paid more attention to his explanations than to the discovery of the game he was talking about. "What crossed there?" Will would ask. "That must have been a red deer!"
After the meal was over, Pierre took up his rifle and left the cabin, scowling at George over his shoulder as he took his departure. "He's pretty sore about your being here," grinned Thede. "I don't know why he should be." "Perhaps he thinks you've come up here to steal this little Brass God."
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