looked at the others tentatively.

"Good Injun might do the rescue act and square himself with her
for what happened at the milk-house," Wally suggested dryly.

"Oh, say, you'd scare her to death. There's no use in piling it
on quite so thick," Jack interposed mildly. "I kinda like the
kid sometimes. Yesterday, when I took her part way up the bluff,
she acted almost human. On the dead, she did!"

"Kill the traitor! Down with him! Curses on the man who betrays
us!" growled Wally, waving his cigarette threateningly.

Whereupon Gene and Clark seized the offender by heels and
shoulders, and with a brief, panting struggle heaved him bodily
off the porch.

"Over the cliff he goes--so may all traitors perish!" Wally
declaimed approvingly, drawing up his legs hastily out of the way
of Jack's clutching fingers.

"Say, old Peppajee's down at the stable with papa," Donny
informed them breathlessly. "I told Marie to put him right next
to Vadnie if he stays to supper--and, uh course, he will. If
mamma don't get next and change his place, it'll be fun to watch
her; watch Vad, I mean. She's scared plum to death of anything
that wears a blanket, and to have one right at her elbow--wonder
where she is--"

"That girl's got to be educated some if she's going to live in