h effect.

He lay silent and motionless on the ground, and when Jet had prepared a
gag he was even so complaisant as to open his mouth to receive it.

"S'posen we let up on his legs a little so's he can walk down to the
shore," Jim suggested. "He's goin' to make a big load if we try to
carry him."

This seemed to be a very good idea, and Jet acted upon it at once,
saying to the prisoner:

"If you'll come along quietly we'll treat you the best we can under the
circumstances."

Bob did not move.

"Get up," Jet said, in a louder tone, as if believing his first remark
was not understood.

Bob shook his head, and there was no mistaking the look on his face as
he did so.

He had no intention of aiding his captors in any manner, and if they
claimed him as prisoner they must take him by sheer expenditure of
strength or not at all.

"There's no use spending time trying to coax or drive him," Jet said,
after a long pause. "If he won't walk we've got to carry him, and
that's the end of it."

Jim, who had been examining the shanty while resting after the battle,
discovered a hammock tucked away in one corner, and he proposed that
this should be used as a litter, for the man could be conveyed more
easily on something than if the boys raised him simply by the head and
feet.

"Roll him in here, and we'll run this pole through the ends so all the
weight will be on our shoulders."

This was done at once, and although the prisoner was bent nearly double
when the density of the foliage forced the bearers to approach each
other closely, the labor of removing him to the boat was greatly
lessened.

"There's no chance Sam will be back until late in the night," Jet said,
as Bob was deposited in the bottom of the craft with no gentle force,
"so we can move about without fear of being discovered, and you might
give us a hot dinner."

"We'll take our ease this day, an' that'll put us in better shape for
tackling the other feller to-night. If he helps himself to the liquor
as he comes down the lake we may have our hands full."

"That's what I'm afraid of," Jet replied, gloomily, and then,
recovering himself as with an effort, he added: "There's no use
borrowing trouble, however, and we should be mighty thankful we've
succeeded so well in getting two of them."

"You can bet I am thankful," Jim replied, with such emphasis that Jet
could not prevent himself from laughing heartily.

By this time Bob had been carried to the