e and Sam Batty," added Will. "I'll
give 'em a piece of my mind when I see 'em!"

"Oh, please don't have trouble!" begged his sister.

"Trouble! The trouble will all be on their side," announced Will,
grimly.

It was the matter of but a few moments for the lumbermen, expert as they
were with the axes, to release Amy, and she fell sobbing into the arms
of her friends.

"Oh, take me home! Take me home!" she begged.

"There, there!" soothed Betty, with her arms about the shrinking figure,
"you'll be all right soon."

"I told those fellows it was foolish to set that bear trap," asserted
the lumberman, "but they would have it."

"Well, there's one satisfaction," grimly spoke one of his companions,
"it will need a lot of repairin' before it's fit for use again," for
they had chopped the front away to more quickly release Amy.

Will was peering about, and, as the party made ready to start for the
cabins, the lumbermen going back to their fishing, Grace's brother said:

"Unless I'm mistaken this trap is on dad's land, which means that that
Jallow crowd must have trespassed here to set it. Take a look, Allen,
and see if the boundary line doesn't bring the trap on this side."

"It certainly does," declared the young lawyer. "They were trespassers,
all right."

"And I'll let 'em know it, too," said Will.

"Oh, please don't quarrel!" begged Grace.

Amy was fast recovering her composure, and she and her girl chums went
on ahead, the boys coming more leisurely. Soon the girls were out of
sight in a little valley.

The boys were talking about the recent happening, when, as they came
from a little clump of trees, they saw Alice and Kittie, with the two
boys who, according to the lumberman, had set the trap.

"Here's where I tackle 'em," said Will.

"Go easy, old man," advised Allen.

"Say, what do you fellows mean by setting that bear trap on our land?"
cried Will, hotly, as he advanced toward the two lads. Alice and Kittie
shrank back.

"What do you mean?" challenged Jake. "We had a right to set that trap!"

"You did not, and one of our friends was just caught in it. You ought to
be ashamed of yourselves. And you were on our property, too, not that we
care so much about that, though."

"Who was caught?" asked Kittie, and she could not keep the sympathy out
of her voice.

"Amy," replied Will.

Alice Jallow laughed.

"We didn't think we'd get game so soon; did we, Jake?" asked Sam, with a
grin.

"I'll te