"Not so bad as that, though we'd be willing to get along if there was a few less."
"Yes, that's so. Got any thing to eat?"
"No, but we'll soon have something."
"Can I go 'long with you?" asked the frightened fellow.
"If you wish to, provided you do what I want you to."
"Oh, I'll do any thing for you. Who's that with you?" he questioned, peering around the hunter, who, although he had advanced a few steps, still stood in front of Edith.
"A young friend, Miss Edith Sudbury."
"Glad to see you," said the young man, with an awkward bow.
"But see here," pursued the Rifleman, "how comes it you are in these woods at all? You didn't come all the way from Pennsylvany alone?"
"Oh, no—oh, no. I came down the Ohio in a flat-boat."