"Not quite so far as that!" smiled Will, "but it's a sure thing the signals ought to be seen as far as the cabin."
"Perhaps this earthquake shook the cabin down," suggested Ed. "I heard a racket over to the south which seemed to indicate that the moraine was being crumpled up like a piece of leather in a blaze."
"It seems to me," Will agreed, "that the earthquake did change the map of Alaska in some particulars. Now, if you've got enough dry wood, we'll start the fire and in five minutes we'll be ready for the green boughs!"
Two roaring fires were soon going on the mountainside, and then both Cameron and Fenton pleaded to be assisted nearer to the circle of warmth. They were both shivering with the cold.
"We ought to give you a swift toss into the blaze!" exclaimed Will. "And we may do it, too," he went on, "if we find that our chums have been brought to their death by your abducting them!"
"We had nothing to do with their being in the cave!" lied Cameron.
"What were you doing in the edge of the thicket?" asked Ed.
"We were watching you and your friends," was the reply. "We thought that you were in quest of our mine!"
"Did you see those red and blue lights?" asked Will.
"Certainly we did," replied Cameron.