“I did, and I want you to leave it alone.”
“All right, Nat, if you say so,” answered Roger. “We thought it had been abandoned and that it might set fire to the woods.”
To this Nat Poole did not reply. Plainly he 110 was annoyed at being discovered in his present position. Dave and Roger looked around, to see if anybody else was in the vicinity, and then, turning, walked in the direction of the other bonfires.
“What do you make of that, Dave?” asked the senator’s son, presently.
“It looked to me as if Nat was waiting or watching for somebody, Roger.”
“So it did. The question is, Who was it?”
“I don’t know. But I’ve got something of an idea.”
“Some of the students?”
“No. That wild man.”