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"Well, he's tuk caught him yesterday. Aaron Masterson spotted him hanging around Riverview. He's arrested." "Good!" cried Snap. "Now he'll get what he deserves." "An' that ain't all. Who do you think the tramp sent fer when he was in jail?" "Who?" asked the four young hunters, simultaneously. "Ham Spink and Carl Dudder.
On the following Monday Snap and Shep were walking down the main street of Fairview when they heard a cry and saw Giant beckoning to them from the post-office steps. "What's up?" asked Snap, as he came up to the small youth. "Ham Spink and Carl Dudder just went in to mail some letters," said Giant. "What of that?" "Whopper went in after them.
"I don't want to go to her house," said Carl. Mr. Dudder lost no time in paying Mammy Shrader a visit, and then he called on Doctor Reed. When he came home again he was very angry. "Carl, I have a good mind to punish you severely," he said. "I did not think you would treat a woman as Mrs. Shrader has been treated.
I'd starve to death afore I'd buy meat here, with the woods so full o' things to shoot!" "I laid down the law good and hard," said Snap. "I don't think they will give us any more trouble." "I think Dudder is rather ashamed of himself," said Whopper. "But Ham Spink is so thick-skinned it doesn't strike through." "What did they do to the negro?" asked Giant. "Locked him up for trial."
It seemed that the ghost had appeared shortly after they returned to their camp. It came up over the lake silently, a figure in yellow, with waving horns of red. It had stopped directly in front of the camp and had waved a menacing arm at the boys. Then it had disappeared into the gloom of the night. "It uttered some terrible things," said Carl Dudder.
"Why should we come back?" answered Snap. "You treated us very shabbily." "Well, didn't you deserve it?" came from Carl Dudder. "You shot off our fireworks on the Fourth of July. We heard all about it." "Didn't you try to steal our clothing when we were in swimming?" said Whopper. "It was a mean piece of business to try to burn down our cabin and to run away with all we had," said Giant.
"I dreamed somebody ran away with our boat and all our supplies," went on Shep. "We didn't have a thing left, and we were in our nightclothes!" "You must have been thinking of Ham Spink and Carl Dudder, and what they did last year." "Maybe. Of course the boat and outfit are safe," went on the doctor's son. "I suppose so -I haven't looked." "Just take a look before you turn in, will you?" "Yes."
They would have gotten away sure only Giant yelled that he would fire a pistol at them if they didn't stop and then they, got scared and dropped the clothing in a ditch." "And who do you think they were?" asked Snap. "Ham Spink and Carl Dudder." "Why, they aren't home from boarding school yet!" cried Shep. "I don't care, that's what I think," said Giant, sturdily.
"Maybe it's Sanborn with the circus folks," said Whopper. "Oh, what shall I do?" asked Tommy in alarm. "I don't want them to see me." "It's the Spink crowd!" cried Giant. "Say, something must be wrong! Look how excited they are!" "We ought to shoot 'em -that's what we ought to do!" they heard Carl Dudder say loudly.
"I'll punch your head good for you! "Try it if you dare," answered Snap, defiantly, and he took an aggressive step forward, at which Dudder retreated. "I'll fight you another time when you haven't so many friends around," said Carl Dudder lamely, and then turning on his heel he started away, followed by one of his cronies. "If old Mammy Shrader is hurt, you'll be to blame," called Snap after him.
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