Boy Scouts in Northern Wilds by Archibald Lee Fletcher
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"But there is a boy who was wounded in the bear cavern last night,"
Thede explained, "and I left him there while I went after his friends, and when I came back, he was gone. We thought sure you took him away." Antoine made no reply. Instead, he busied himself with breakfast. In his efforts in this direction Tommy and Sandy were not slow in joining, and in a short time beautifully broiled bear steaks were smoking on tin plates which Antoine had taken from a cupboard fastened to the wall. A pot of tea was steeping over a fire built at one end of the cavern. The boys eyed this with interest. "We really ought to be going out in search of George," Will finally said. "He may be suffering in the cold." "That's right!" declared Tommy. "I'm going out just as soon as I finish eating! The lad was carried off by some one, all right, and be can't be far away!" "I wonder why we didn't get our revolvers away from that dead man?" asked Sandy. "We surely ought to have them!" "I looked for them," Will said quietly, "but they were not there!" "Then he must have hidden them away somewhere," Tommy declared. "We laid them down just before crawling through that hole." "You will doubtless find them in time," Antoine suggested. |
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