CHAPTER

  1. [The Log House]
  2. [A Surprise that Brings Suspicion]
  3. [Nell Makes up her Mind]
  4. [The Howl Of The Wolf]
  5. ["Little Eyes has a Forked Tongue"]
  6. [Green Eyes in the Darkness]
  7. [A Midnight Battle]
  8. [The Mysterious Camp Fire]
  9. [How the Great Bull Fled for his Life]
  10. [The Camp on the Wolf's Tooth Rocks]
  11. [The Hunters]
  12. [The Flight Continues]
  13. [A Race For Life]
  14. [Rifle Shots]
  15. [In which the Ice Goes out, and the Trail Leads Home]

TWO ON THE TRAIL

CHAPTER I

THE LOG HOUSE

"Do you suppose anything has happened to him?" asked the boy; "do you, Nell?"

He had been asking that question a great many times a day for a good many days. Every time he asked it his sister said, "Oh no, of course not," and set about any sort of work to prove she was not thinking anxious thoughts. At last, however, her answer was rather slower in coming, and on this particular occasion no answer came till David touched her arm.

"Do you, Nell?" he urged.

"I don't know. I shouldn't think so," she said, but instead of getting busy she sat still and stared at the red-hot stove, her strong hard hands clasped round her knees, and a frown on her forehead--actually doing nothing at all but just think!

This state of things was surprising enough to make "Da," as she called her young brother, more persistent than ever. He was a big, strong, square-shouldered boy of twelve, or thereabouts, and his sister was to him very much what the Captain of the First Eleven might be to a boy in an English school. She was wonderful. She could do anything and everything that he understood and that came into his life, as well--better than anyone he knew. Besides the jobs that men left over--in his experience--and which Nell did as cleverly as the mother who had died about five years before.