"Hen Dutcher's voice!" muttered Dave. "How on earth did that fellow get back here?"
Dick reached for the latch-string, opening the door. Then these four Grammar School boys received a big surprise.
Hen Dutcher was there, but so were Fred Ripley, Bert Dodge and a half dozen other young fellows, all of them older and larger than the members of Dick & Co. To make the intrusion still more impudent, Ripley's crowd were all at table, eating the best that the cabin afforded.
CHAPTER XIX
NOT A LOVE FEAST
T the same instant that Dick and his friends, all utterly astounded, peered into the cabin from the doorway, Fred Ripley felt the draught and looked around.
"Hullo!" shouted Fred gleefully. "Here are the other babies!"
"What are you fellows trying to do here?" demanded Dick sternly, as he strode into the cabin.