"Now there's no use askin' me who he is, or what he wants," declared
the young farmer. "All I know is that I caught him. He won't talk."
"You did a good piece of work," declared Mr. Pertell, "and a day or
so of jail food may make the fellow change his mind. Well, it's too
late to do any moving pictures to-day. We'll put off the barn-burning
until to-morrow."
"Well, there's one thing we can't put off until to-morrow and that is
looking after that dog," remarked Sandy. "The poor fellow may be
frantic by now."
"May we go with you?" asked Alice.
"Surely," answered Sandy.
"Come along, Ruth--and anybody else who wants to," she added.
"Count me in!" exclaimed Paul.
"The same here," laughed Russ.
So the five set off for the lonely cabin.
"I can't understand how the dog came to be there, though," mused
Russ, as they walked on through the woods. "That fellow wasn't at the
cabin the last time we looked."
"But that was several days ago," Paul reminded him. "He may have been
staying there ever since, thinking we had given up going there.
That's very likely it."
And this proved to be the case. The man had apparently moved back
into the cabin. The room was arranged about as it had been the day
the girls took shelter in the place, but there was this change--that
a fine collie dog was chained near the big fireplace.
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