"Is this the third degree?"
"How long are you going to remain here?" asked Antoine, without
paying any attention to the boy's question.
"Gee!" exclaimed Tommy. "You make me think of the stories of
little Clarence in the newspapers! You're the original little
interrogation point."
"You'd better answer my questions!" thundered Antoine, losing his
temper at last.
Now this was exactly what Tommy had been hoping for. Antoine angry
might prove to be more communicative than Antoine in a pleasant
temper.
"Will you answer a few of my questions?" asked Will, wondering if
it would be possible for him to spring upon the trapper and bring
him down before his rifle could be brought into use.
"If you'll keep that impertinent little gutter-snipe still,"
Antoine snarled, "I'll answer such questions as seem to me to be
worth answering."
"Are you the man who was seen sitting half-asleep before a fire in
a cavern three nights ago?" asked the boy.
The man hesitated for a moment, as if in deep thought, and then
answered with an exclamation of impatience.
"Were you in the cave that night?"
"No, but my chums were," Will replied.
"What did they see there?"
"A man asleep by the fire!"
"Perhaps the man wasn't asleep at all.
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