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"We'll not go until you give us something good." "That's the talk!" cried Akley. Let's take a look around and see if we can find any cookies!" said Ham. "You leave our things alone," said Giant firmly. "Bah! You fellows didn't leave our boat alone, so why should we leave your things alone?" growled Ham. "I won't have you looking through our things," cried Giant.
"But it is true -every word of it," came from Giant, and Whopper and Tommy said the same. "You've been there -and you have our things," said Ike Akley doggedly. "If you want to do so, you can search this camp," said Shep. "But don't you harm any of our goods." "Do you mean to say you didn't come to our camp last night?" demanded Ham. "I certainly do say it," answered the doctor's son.
"Will you?" called out Shep, advancing into the opening, with his gun in his hands. "I rather guess not." Ham looked around, and so did Ike Akley. When both saw the doctor's son, Snap and Whopper, and all with their guns in their hands, they fell back and grew a trifle pale. "Thought you were going to rob us, eh?" said Shep sternly. "N -no," stammered Ham.
"We'll be on hand," answered Snap, and then he and his chums moved further out into the lake with the boats and the canoe, and were soon lost to sight in the gloom of the night. "Well, this is the worst yet," growled Ike Akley, when he and his cronies were left alone. "We thought we were going to have the best of it and now they have turned the tables on us." "Have they?" came from Ham Spink.
"I'll take care of the kid!" cried Ike Akley, and strode toward Tommy. But in a twinkling the boy from the circus had leaped into a tree and was safe among the branches. The stones he had put in his pockets, but now he brought them forth again. "Just remember what I said!" he exclaimed. "I'm a good shot, too!" "We'll get the best of 'em, and take what we please!" cried Ham Spink.
"Perhaps you wanted to starve us into going home." "It was only a bit of fun," pleaded Ham Spink. "We -er -we were going to return your outfit to-morrow." "I don't believe it," said the doctor's son promptly. "Ain't you going to give us back our boat and the canoe?" asked Ike Akley. "That depends," answered Snap. He whispered something to his chums. "We'll let you know to-morrow.
"Came over after our things." "How do you know we have your things?" "Well, we thought you'd be just mean enough to take our outfit -you did something like that before, if you'll remember." "Humph!" "Will you let me up?" "We will if you'll promise not to run away," answered Carl. "That's the talk -let us make a prisoner of him!" cried Ike Akley. "You have no right to touch me," said Shep.
"What are you talking about!" cried Ike Akley, indignantly. "Why, you were the first to propose going home." "That's true," said another boy. "Well -er -I thought perhaps you didn't care to stay," stammered Ham. "Anyway, I think it is much nicer down to Lake Cameron," he added, hastily, to change the subject. "The snakes are numerous up here, and game is scarce."
"You clear out, Ham Spink, and leave us alone," came in the voice of Giant. "We don't want you around here. And we don't want you, either, Ike Akley." "We'll leave when we please," was the answer from Ham Spink. "We aren't going to hurt you," said the boy named Ike Akley, another of the Spink contingent. "We don't want you around." "Got anything good to eat?" demanded Ham coolly. "Not for you."
"Think you're smart, don't you?" roared Ham Spink, striding into the camp and facing Shep and Snap. "Well, I want you to know that you have gone too far. You've got to pay damages, or we'll have you all locked up." "You've got to pay for my new suit of clothes," said Ike Akley. "It is utterly ruined." "And my sweater," said Dick Bush. "And I want to know where my shoes are?" put in Carl Dudder.
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