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more ground. We are getting anxious about Bert." Of course the object of the boys in leaving the cabin was to meet the Boy Scout who had signalled to them from the window. When they turned the corner of the cabin, they found a thin, pale lad in a torn and faded khaki uniform leaning against the outer wall. "Why don't you come in?" asked Will. "Is the miner in there yet?" asked the boy. "Yes, he says the cabin belongs to him, and he's going to remain all night! What do you know of him?" "Nothing at all!" replied the boy, "except that I've been following him for half a dozen miles in the hopes that he would lead me to some place where I could eat and sleep." "Did you call out to him?" asked Will. "No," was the answer. "I was afraid he would send me back if I did. Miners in this section are not fond of leading strangers to their claims." "Where do you belong?" asked Sandy pointing to the Bulldog badge displayed on the boy's ragged coat. "Bulldog Patrol, Portland," was the reply. "How'd you get out into this country in such a plight?" asked Will. "My chum and I," was the reply, "started out to seek our fortunes. We got to Katalla and couldn't get a thing to do. Sam--his name is Sam White--insisted on remaining in town, but I made a break for the country." "How long since you've had anything to eat?" asked Sandy. "About twenty-four hours," was the reply. "Well, come on in, then, and we'll feed you up." "Of course I'll go, now that I know that you are running the camp," replied the boy. "I suppose I should have gone in anyway, directly, for just as I came up I heard the man knocking at the door. I was still afraid I'd get kicked out if I put in an appearance at any miner's cabin and asked for food, but I should have risked it." "I didn't know that miners did such things," Sandy observed. "Some of them do, and some of them don't," replied the boy. "You haven't given us your name yet," suggested Will. "Ed Hannon," was the reply. "Well come on in the cabin, Ed Hannon," laughed Sandy, "and we'll fill you up, but you mustn't say a word about having seen that miner, and if he talks to you about the route by which you approached the cabin lie like a thief! Which way did he come from, anyway?" "He came from the west," was the reply. "I plumped into him not far from one of the little rivulets which joins Copper river not very far away." "There!" said Sandy. "Now I guess we've got somet
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