Part 39 (2/2)
”That's the smoke we must have seen,” announced Dave ”Now the question is: Who lives there?”
”And hoill they take our arrival,” added Phil
”Wait a minute!” ordered Dave, and put out his hand to stop his chu from the mountain torrent with a bucket of water in his hand Now the man stopped in front of the door to the cabin as if to look around before entering
”Well, that isn't the wild man; that's sure! And it isn't Link Merwell, either,” announced Roger
”Say, I've seen that man before!” cried Phil, in sudden excitement
”You have, Phil?” questioned Dave ”Who is he?”
”Who is he? Unless I a uncle, Lester Lawrence!”
CHAPTER XXIV
THE MAN AT THE CABIN
”That man is your uncle?”
”Do you mean the man who disappeared so mysteriously after that robbery?”
”That's the man” Phil's est thing that ever happened? To think ofacross my uncle in this out-of-the-way place!”
”You want to make sure that he is your uncle first,” warned Dave
”Perhaps he is only somebody who looks like your relative, the sarim smile
”Oh, I am sure that man is my uncle,” declared the shi+powner's son
”Do you think he is the saer
”I don't know as to that Maybe he is,” and Phil's face noorriment ”I do hope ht do that because of his troubles,” was Shadow's comment
”It was trouble that affected Wilbur Poole, if you'll re the course of this conversation, the boys had withdrawn to the shelter of some trees and brushwood In the meantime the man with the bucket of water had disappeared within the cabin
”I noticed he limped considerably,” remarked Dave
”Yes, and he had his left foot bound up,” announced Luke ”More than likely he hurt it in some way”
”It would be an easy matter for somebody to hurt his foot if he cut up like that felloho nearly scared the girls and Link Merwell to death,”
re to the cabin and see what he has to say for himself,”