"Boys, what can this mean?" said Snap at last. "Who has played us this shabby trick?"
"Can the cabin have burnt down right after we left it?" asked Giant.
"Why, no, it has been burnt down since the last snowstorm," answered
Shep, "otherwise the snow would cover the ruins."
"This fire isn't over three or four days old," came from Whopper.
"Do you think it could start up of itself?" asked the small member of the Gun Club.
"No, I don't."
"Then somebody must have set it on fire."
"Yes."
"Who?"
"That remains to be found out," said Snap. "Oh, I wish I had the fellow here now," and he banged a fist into the palm of his hand, to show what he would do in such a case.