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Felps's loss," came from Giant. "He said he had bought the district up, you'll remember." As they pulled along, well away from the shore, they suddenly heard a mad cry for aid. "What's that?" asked Snap. "A man on shore!" ejaculated Whopper. "See him -over on yonder rocks!" "It is that Barrock!" said Shep. "Help me!" came from the man, who was waving his arms wildly.
I don't know the whole truth of the case, but I know my father wanted the papers and he didn't want Andrew Felps to learn that they were missing." "Snap, I think you have struck the truth," ejaculated Shep. "I don't know of anything else that would bring this Barrock -if that's his name -to this locality. He must be watching his chance to meet Andrew Felps."
"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?"
"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."
Lusher Barrock made a movement as if to take something from his breast-pocket. Just at that moment heavy footsteps sounded out directly behind the four boy hunters, and two men belonging to the Felps crowd appeared upon the scene. "Hullo! What are you youngsters doing here?" demanded one of the men. "We -we came over on business," stammered Snap.
But no answer came back, and now Lush Barrock was both out of sight and hearing. Yet the boy hunters did not give up the chase. They followed the trail as best they could to a brook, but there lost it in the water. Then they hunted around for a good quarter of an hour, but without avail. "Too bad!" groaned Snap. "Oh, how I wish I had put my hands on that rascal!"
"We had a pretty close shave of it, father," answered Snap. "We've got a prisoner for you, Mr. Dodge," sang out Shep, somewhat proudly. "Here is the rascal who set fire to the sawmill." "Is it possible!" cried Mr. Dodge. "That fire was an -an accident," grumbled Lusher Barrock. "All a mistake." "I've got the documents he took, and three hundred dollars of the money," said Snap. "Well! well!
Nothing was said to him about the talk he had had with Lusher Barrock, and he himself was afraid to open his mouth about it, and soon the incident was practically forgotten. The Barnaby Company went to work at the Spur Road tract and nobody attempted to stop them. "Boys, we had a dandy time, didn't we?" said Snap, one evening after he had had his fill of venison steak.
In the cottage they found the remains of some meals the stranger had had, and also some scraps of paper, including an envelope addressed to Lusher Barrock. "I wonder if that is his name?" said Snap. "More than likely," answered Giant. "Did you ever hear of him before?" "No." They tried to put the pieces of paper together, but the effort was a failure.
"That's what he gets for taking our cabin from us," was Giant's comment. Not wishing to meet the lumber dealer again, now that they had made Lush Barrock a prisoner, Snap directed his chums to row out of the lake and on to the river. The boys pulled a good stroke and, despite the load on board the craft, made fair progress. "This fire will worry the folks at home," said Shep.
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