"You will not hear me say anything more, but I shall go on thinking, all the same," replied Catherine.
Theodora had gone into their cabin, to fetch our tin ware and frying-pan.
"Why!" she exclaimed, coming hastily out, in some fluster, "almost all our bread is gone!"
"Then somebody's been here," said Addison, "while we were away."
"Everything in the baskets has been pulled over," said Theodora.
We went to examine and found the baskets had really been disturbed, but nothing save bread had been removed.
"Some hungry hunter, I guess," said Addison. "Well, I hope it did him good."
"I reckon there's where the partridges went," said Tom.
"Well, he wasn't a very bad visitor," said Willis, "or he might have stolen a good deal more."
"Indeed, he might," said Theodora.