"That's it. It looks as if that chimpanzee was wuth a lot to them.
He was a whole show in hisself."
"Well, we've got the lion right enough," said Snap. "We don't know anything about the monkey."
They told the old hunter about many of their doings, and related the story of the missing watch, camera, and other things.
"Why, I didn't know anybody lived in this cabin," said Jed Sanborn. "It's been empty ever since old Sturgis died—-about twelve years ago. He had some awful disease—-like smallpox—-and folks got scared to come here."
"Gracious! You don't suppose we'll get any disease?" cried Giant in alarm.
"Not from him, son—-it's too long ago. Why, say, I was at this cabin less than a month ago—-stopped here overnight account o' a rainstorm."
Wasn't nobuddy here then. It can't be Peter Peterson, can it?"
"No; it didn't look like Peterson," answered the doctor's son.
"Besides, Peterson isn't so plumb crazy as this chap."
"I'll take a look around," answered Jed Sanborn.
He made the same investigation as had the boys. Then he got down on his hands and knees and examined the soft ground in and around the cabin.