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"It said something about being dead and about being buried." "Yes, and then it uttered a hideous laugh," said Ike Akley. "I shall never forget that -it was awful, and it seemed to go right through a fellow." "Why didn't you shoot at it?" asked Snap. "That is what I should have done." "Humph! I guess if you saw that ghost you'd be paralyzed," said Carl Dudder.
"We have been out after these," and he pointed to the game. When the dudish youths saw the deer they were astonished. "Did you kill all those?" cried Carl Dudder. "We did." "To-day?" "Yes." "Then you weren't near our camp?" questioned Dick Bush, uneasily. "We haven't been within a mile of your camp," answered Snap. "We left our boat here this morning and went directly into the mountains.
You can get another boat down to Fairview, if you want one." "You come back here!" yelled Ham Spink, in great rage. "If you don't come back with our boats I'll have you arrested," put in Carl Dudder. "Do so, and we'll have your whole crowd arrested for stealing our outfit," came from Giant. "And for trying to burn down our cabin," added Shep. "I didn't burn down your cabin," said Ham, hastily.
"It is mighty queer," muttered Mr. Spink. "I will look into this to-morrow." "The old Harry take Felps anyway," muttered Ham to himself. "How did he learn I threw that snowball? That Dodge crowd must have told him." It was Mammy Shrader's neighbor, Samuel O'Brien, who called upon Mr. Dudder. "Sure, Mr. Dodder, yer son ought to be locked up, so he ought," said the Irishman.
"Barney Hedge," repeated Snap. He knew the fellow mentioned to be a crony of Ham Spink and Carl Dudder. "What was it about?" "Oh, about our outing last summer. It seems Hedge and the others are starting a report that we didn't shoot the game we brought in, but that Jed Sanborn brought down the most of it for us." "How mean!" cried Giant.
"You shut up about ghosts!" cried Ham, shaking his fist in Snap's face. "Say, Ham, let us give 'em a dressing down before we leave," whispered Carl Dudder. He looked around the dock. "Nobody here but ourselves." "That's the talk," put in another of the Spink crowd. "They deserve it for trying to crow over us." Shep and Snap heard the talk and looked at each other.
It ain't leaked out jest why, but some folks thinks young Spink and young Dudder got the tramp to steal your things. An' there's more news, too." "What more, Jed?" "It's come out that Ham Spink and Carl Dudder blew up the old boathouse, jest to ruin your things. There was a lively row, but Mr. Spink an' Mr. Rudder settled the bill to keep Ham and Carl out o' jail, I expect."
It was presently made evident to our friends that the persons ahead were Ham Spink, Carl Dudder and a lad named Dick Bush, who had in former years been a close personal friend to Ham. "Wonder where they are going?" asked Snap. "Down to the lake," answered the doctor's son. "Most likely to where they left their boat." "Let us keep behind them and out of sight," suggested Giant.
"I wish we could pay them off good," went on Whopper. Just then Ham Spink and Carl Dudder came out of the post-office. Snap and the others were standing behind some boxes of goods and the dude and his chum did not at once see them. "We'll have a celebration with those fireworks when they come," Ham was saying. "We'll show Fairview a great sight." "That's right," returned Carl Dudder.
This plan was speedily carried out, and just as Ham Spink started to leap to the shore he found himself confronted by the four boy hunters, each with a torch in one hand and his gun held out in the other. "Stop, Ham Spink!" cried Snap. "Don't you dare to step a foot further!" "Discovered!" muttered Carl Dudder, in disgust. "I told you to be careful."
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