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Updated: May 16, 2025
"Then we had better make tracks for it at once before Dick Rover and the man who is with him get on our trail." They walked back to the camp-fire and, calling Jasper Grinder and Lemuel Husty aside, Baxter explained the situation. A talk, lasting several minutes, followed. "Now then, you come with us," said Dan Baxter to the Rovers. "And see to it that you don't try to get away."
If ever there was a disappointed and angry individual, it was Dan Baxter. He raved and said all sorts of uncomplimentary things, and Husty and Harney joined in, until John Barrow told all of them to shut up or he would have the law on them. "You had no right to make prisoners of Tom and Sam," he said. "But if you'll behave yourselves, and not bother us in the future, we'll let that pass."
"You're down on my friend Baxter, aint you?" "If we are, we have a good reason to be," came from Sam. "Perhaps you have, and then again, perhaps you haven't. It aint no nice thing to be cotched spying, though." "We weren't spying. We came up quite by accident." "You can tell that to the monkeys, but you can't tell it to me," growled Lemuel Husty. Then he raised his voice: "I say, Baxter!
Come now, and no more fooling. If you behave yourself, there won't be any trouble." There was, then, nothing to do but to follow, for neither of the Rovers wished to lose this portion of the outfit. Soon the whole party were gathered around the fire, which Husty heaped high with brushwood.
Having reached the road running along the lake front, Baxter and his companion, whose name was Lemuel Husty, passed northward past a straggling row of cottages and then on the road leading to the village of Neckport. "I wish I had time I'd follow them," said Dick to himself, and turned back, much disappointed over the fact that he had not had a chance to speak to Dan Baxter.
Both boys started and turned around, to find themselves confronted by Lemuel Husty, the man Dick had seen in company with Baxter at Cedarville. "Hullo, who are you?" asked Tom, as quickly as he could recover from his surprise. "If you want to know real bad, youngster, my name is Lemuel Husty." "I don't know you." "But I know you leas'wise I know of you," went on Husty, with a frown.
"I'm with you," returned Tom. "No, you don't!" cried Husty, and caught hold of the sled. "You just stay here until we talk this thing over." Tom's hands were on his gun, and for the moment he felt like pointing the weapon at the man. But then he concluded that this would do small good, and the weapon remained where it was.
"We've been looking high and low for you." "We've been prisoners of the enemy," answered Tom. "By the way, have you seen anything of Dan Baxter and his party?" "No. Do you mean to say Baxter made you prisoners?" "He and his crowd did." "How many are there with him?" "Three men, Bill Harney the guide, Lemuel Husty, and Jasper Grinder." "Jasper Grinder!" burst out Dick. "Impossible!"
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