with the best fishing grounds."

"He thinks he is, and wanted me to keep on into the upper lake; but
after that long carry I thought I'd had enough of such work, and so
we've hauled up here a while."

"Going to stay long?"

"I don't reckon we can be away more'n a week."

"Do many of the visitors stop on this lake?" Bob asked, as he turned to
Jim, and Jet took advantage of the opportunity to move farther inside
the shanty.

"No, sir, they mostly keep farther on. This place has been fished over
so much that there's no fun for the city chaps what wanter catch big
fellows."

Under Jet's example Jim was rapidly recovering his presence of mind,
and since the visitor did not immediately set about killing them, he
dared to look him in the face.

This answer seemed to please Bob, and Jet could readily understand why.

He gazed around once more, and then started back, much to the relief of
his hosts.

Jim attempted to say something a moment afterward, but Jet interrupted
him by crying loudly:

"Don't you think we'd better try to fix this camp up a little more
before night?"

"Why, she's good enough," Jim replied, in surprise, as he came to the
front of the hut, which gave Jet the opportunity to whisper:

"Don't you dare to say a word about him yet a while. There's no
knowing how near he may be."

It was fully a quarter of an hour before the small guide ventured to
speak again, and then Jet had seen both the men on the shore in front
of their hut.

"You can talk now," he said, as he rose to his feet; "but in the future
be mighty careful where those fellows are before opening your mouth
about them. What were you going to say?"

"I don't know now; you frightened it out of my head. I swow! but I
thought he'd come over to raise the very old Harry with us."

"It wasn't pleasant to see him so near; but now I'm glad he made the
visit, for I don't think he suspects anything, and won't have a reason
to prowl around. We must spend a good deal of time fishing tomorrow."

"Why don't you send word for them fellers to come up an' nab him?"

"Perhaps we will to-morrow, if they are still here; but you must
remember that it isn't yet certain they'll stay very long, and by the
time the officers arrived both might be out of the way."

"Of course, you've got the management of this job; but, if it was in my
hands, I'd want to have it over as soon as I could."

"So do I; but at the same time it won't do to make a mistake