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"Uncle Pete was a mite cracked over it, maybe. But he was good enough to me until Rufus Blent came rummagin' round. Somehow he got Uncle Pete to ragin'." "Who is this Rufus Blent?" asked Ruth, curiously. "He's a real estate man. He lives at Logwood. That's the landin' at the east end o' the lake." "What lake?" "Tallahaska. You've heard tell on't?" he asked. "Yes. But I was never there, of course."
The old pine tree sprang out of a little hollow in the hill. Behind it was the peak of the island, and from this highest spot the party obtained an unobstructed view of the whole western end of Tallahaska. "It's one big old lake," sighed Isadore Phelps. "If it would only just freeze over, boys, and give us a chance to try out the iceboats!"
Don't 'spect I'll ever see Tallahaska or Cliff Island again," and the young fellow's voice broke and he turned his face away. When Jane Ann Hicks heard something of this, through Ruth, she was eager to help Jerry to be revenged upon the man whom he thought had cheated his uncle. "Let me write to Bill Hicks about it," she cried, eagerly.
"And I don't doubt him either," Helen Cameron said. "But we'd better hear both sides of it. And a missing treasure box, and papers to prove that an old hunter is owner of an island in Tallahaska, sounds well, unusual, to say the least." Ruth laughed. "Helen has suddenly developed caution," she said. "What do you say, Tom?"
Belle's mother had arrived in good season, for she was to chaperone the party bound for Logwood, at the head of Tallahaska Lake. She passed the word at ten o'clock, and the girls got their hand-baggage and ran down to the road, where Old Dolliver waited for them with his big sleigh.
And there will be a great lodge built by Christmas time and he has told me I might invite you all to come to the house-warming. Now, Ruth! it remains with you. If you'll go, the others will, I know. And it's a splendid place." "Cliff Island?" gasped Ruth. "Yes. In Lake Tallahaska." "And your father has just bought it?" "Yes. He had some trouble getting a clear title; but it's all right now.
And I got a good rifle and shotgun, and I'm a good camp cook. I can't get a guide's license, but I could go as assistant if anybody would take me around Tallahaska." "Suppose I could get you a job working right where you've always lived at Cliff Island?" she asked, eagerly. "What d'ye mean Cliff Island?" he demanded, flushing deeply. "I wouldn't work for that Rufus Blent nor he wouldn't have me."
Then he had his team of horses put to the sledge, and he and Jerry and the box drove the entire length of Lake Tallahaska, struck into a main road to the county asylum, and made an unexpected call upon the poor old hunter, who had been so long confined in that institution. "It was jest what Uncle Pete needed to wake him up," Jerry declared to Ruth, when he saw her some weeks later.
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