"And he's stout!"
"Decidedly so."
"And he wears a leather hunting shirt, and leather leggins, and he took off a pair of serviceable leather gloves when he entered?"
"I see what you're getting at," George replied, "Can you see whether there's a buckle missing from his leggins?"
"There is!" answered Sandy.
"And a patch missing from his hunting shirt?"
"Just as sure as you're a foot high!"
"Did you ever see such nerve?" whispered George. "He comes here and steals a sick boy, and then has the nerve to return and claim the cabin!"
"Well, I'm glad he came," Sandy whispered back. "All we've got to do now is to play the sleuth when he leaves the cabin."
"You mean that if we follow him in his journeys over the country we'll be apt to find Bert?" asked George.