ll clean up the
living-room first and get a fresh fire started."

"All right, you fellows do that, and we'll tackle the bedrooms," said
Jack. "We'll have to dry out that bedding before night."

Soon the whole crowd was busy, breakfast, for the time, being forgotten.
All went at the task with a will, and before long everything was
straightened out but the kitchen. Doors and windows had been closed, a
fresh fire had been lit, and then the roaring logs sent a grateful
warmth through the entire bungalow.

"Now we'll get breakfast, and then we'll clean up this mess in the
kitchen," announced Gif.

"And what are we going to do after that?" questioned Jack.

"What do you think we ought to do, Jack?"

"Square accounts with Glutts and Werner, if they are the guilty
parties."

"They only paid us back for what Fred and the twins did," said Spouter.
"I don't know but what we might as well call it quits."

"Well, we'll go over there, anyway, and see what they've got to say for
themselves," said Jack. "Perhaps at the least we'll be able to scare
them so that they'll leave us alone in the future."

"All right, we might do that," answered Gif; and so it was decided.

The boys came to the conclusion that Glutts and Werner, accompanied
possibly by Codfish, must have visited the Lodge some time in the middle
of the previous afternoon. Evidently the marauders had been afraid that
the bungalow's occupants might return at any moment, for they had worked
with great speed.

"They took a big chance with that fire," remarked Randy. "If the wind
had blown the sparks too far--into the bedrooms for instance--the whole
place might have gone up in flames."

At first the lads thought to go over to Tony Duval's place without
delay. But by the time they had straightened out the bungalow and gotten
their breakfast, the older cadets were in a different frame of mind.

"More than likely they'll be on their guard to-day, looking for us to
come over," said Jack. "Let us wait two or three days and try to catch
them unawares," and this change was made in their plans.

Several days, including Sunday, passed, and the six cadets took it easy.
It snowed part of the time, so that they went out hunting only once. On
that trip they managed to get several more rabbits and four quail, but
that was all.

"I thought I saw a fox," said Gif on the morning following. "I heard him
bark during the night too."

"Was he a silver fox?" questioned Jack eagerly