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Many an eye was directed on M'Adam; but that little man appeared all unconscious. "Weel, Mr. Saunderson," he was saying in, shrill accents, "and shall ye tie Shep?" "What d'yo' think?" asked Rob, eying the man at whom the measure was aimed. "Why, it's this way, I'm thinkin'," the little man replied. "Gin ye haud Shep's the guilty one I wad, by all manner o' means or shootin'd be aiblins better.
"And don't say it's about lessons for the coming fall," put in Whopper with a mock-serious look. "Lessons!" burst out Giant. "Perish the thought!" "Well, to start with," began the doctor's son. "How would you like to go camping again?" "Fine!" "Great!" "Couldn't be better!" "Just as I thought," continued Shep. "And just what I told my father.
"Oh, well " and Shep could not finish. "Did you ever see the ghost?" asked Snap. "I sure did, my boy." "When?" cried Whopper. "What did it look like?" demanded Giant. "I see the ghost less nor a month ago -when I was up to Lake Narsac after fish. It was a foggy morning, an' I was fishing from a little island near the upper end o' the lake.
"Well, you told them to beware of holes," answered Shep. The two ducks that had been killed were picked up and put in the game-bags, and then Snap and Shep started to follow their comrades, but at a more moderate rate of speed. "Hark! they are calling for help!" exclaimed the leader of the Gun Club, a moment later. "They are in a hole!" said the doctor's son. "Look, I can just see their heads!"
Then Shep took a second shot also, hitting Bruin in the throat. This was too much for the bear, and with a quiver and a gasp he sank in a heap, and a moment later breathed his last. "Is he -he dead?" gasped Giant, after the bear had been quiet for a full minute. "I think so," answered Snap. "But don't go near him yet -he may be playing a trick on us." "I am not going near him."
Joe Bright had been sent away, with instructions to say nothing about what was going on at the boathouse, and soon Whopper followed him. Then Snap and Shep went into the building and locked the door behind them. The structure was a one-story affair, with a small loft overhead, for the storage of extra oars and odds and ends of boat lumber.
Shep asked nothing better than this command, and charged forward, barking furiously and leaping into the air as though he intended to eat the calf up alive. The two swept across the barnyard and into the lower regions of the barn. In a moment Shep reappeared, his tongue hanging out, his tail wagging, his eyes glistening, very proud of himself, and mounted guard at the door.
Jed Sanborn reached the doorway, and he and Whopper managed to push down the barrier and leap outside. Some of the snow tumbled into the fire and this created a smoke which all but stifled poor Giant, who, for several minutes could hardly move. In the meantime Snap and Shep were flat on their breasts, trying to squirm from under the mass that was pressing them to the earth.
She would leave Gypsy tethered where the grass was deep and rich, command Shep to lie down and see that nobody ran away with her outfit, and then tramp off alone, carrying her camera. She knew how to climb up into the tree and to screen herself behind the foliage, so that she might watch the mother bird and her ways, and find out when she should expect the joyous miracle of new life.
Soon Shep found an opening which led to a cave still higher up, and through this they crawled. "This must be the second story," said Whopper. "See any bedrooms?" This little joke made them all smile and put them a little more at ease. The upper cave was not as large as that below, and from an opening at one end they could look out on the mountainside.
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