harness the pup and snake in a log with him, I'll make my
Henry snake two logs," retorted the forest woman.

Hippy went back for another load of wood, his shoulders jogging up and
down with laughter.

"This is all very fine, Tom, but what are we going to do after you have
left us?" wondered Anne.

"Grace knows how to build a lean-to, and I am positive that Mrs. Shafto
does," answered Tom.

Joe nodded.

"When you go into permanent camp you will require a different
construction to keep the rain out. Bark stripped from trees will answer
the purpose," Tom informed them.

The small lean-to was for the guide, and another of about the same size
was later erected for Tom and Hippy, though further from the fire than
the little green houses for the girls and the guide.

Night was upon them by the time they had finished, and Mrs. Shafto
already had built a small cook fire and was preparing supper. About the
time it was ready Tom put a match under the larger pile of wood, and a
cheerful blaze flamed up.

"Try the house and see how warm it is, girls," suggested Grace.

Exclamations of delight and gurgles of satisfaction followed their trial
of the lean-to.

"Why, it is as warm as a steam-heated house," cried Nora.

"That is because the rear side of the lean-to is closed and the front
open. The heat therefore remains in the lean-to. Even a low fire will
keep one warm in such a shelter in the coldest of winter nights," Grace
explained to her companions.

In the meantime Tom and Hippy were discussing the attack of the previous
night, and Tom Gray was cautioning Hippy to be on the lookout all the
time and see to it that the Overland girls were protected.

"We are getting into rough country. I don't need to tell you that," said
Tom. "Law is quite a way removed from us, and it takes time to get the
law operating in the Big Woods country. By the time it does get working,
the guilty ones generally are out of reach. I wish we had got in touch
with Willy Horse and hired him to join the outfit."

"Leave it to Henry and Hippy," laughed Lieutenant Wingate. "What those
two 'H's' can't do, he couldn't. Then again, we have Hindenburg. Do you
think that fellow Tatem had anything to do with what happened last
night?"

Tom said he knew of no good reason why the foreman of Forty-three should
have wished to injure them.

"The attack looks to me like a lumberjack's revenge but I can't account
for it. I have decided to leave you in th