But the shape frowned until it seemed all eyebrow. 'Young man,' it said, 'how came you here? By water?'
'No; by land.'
'Alongshore?'
'No; through the woods.'
'Nobody ever comes through the woods.'
'Agreed; but I am somebody.'
'Do you mean that you have come across from Lake Superior on foot?'
'I landed on the shore of Lake Superior a month or two ago, and struck inland the same day; where I am now I neither know nor want to know.'
'Very well,' said the shape,—'very well.' But it scowled more gently.
'You have no boat?'
'No.'