Those large fires burn a long time."
"And you say that you have not been disturbed at all during your
occupancy of the place?" Antoine continued.
"Now I wonder how much this fellow knows," Will asked himself while
Antoine stood gazing curiously down upon him. "I wonder if he
knows about the people who came there that night? He seems to have
a suspicion that some person is wandering about the country, and
keeping pretty well out of sight. I wish I knew how much he knows."
"Oh, we have slept all right," he finally said, in reply to the
man's question. "A mess of healthy boys will sleep under the noise
of battle!"
"I ask these questions," Antoine said directly, "because I have
seen strange foot-prints in the snow at different times, and it
seems to me that some person or persons are skulking through the
woods and, for some reason known only to themselves, keeping out of
sight of honest men."
"He knows all about that affair at the cabin," Will concluded.
"Now," he went on, "I wonder why he's so very much interested in
these strangers, whoever they are?"
"Oh, come on!" Tommy exclaimed. "Don't stand here all day! We've
got to get back to the cabin before it gets too dark to make our
way through the woods.
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