[CHAPTER IV]
“Who are you?” demanded the man with the lantern, “and what are you doing here at this time o’ night?”
Dannie was too much frightened to answer at once, and he began to back away.
“Stand still!” commanded the man. “No one’s going to hurt you. I simply want to know who you are and where you are going.”
“I—I’m going home,” faltered Dannie.
A voice came from out the shadows up the road.
“What’s the matter down there, John?”
“I don’t know,” replied John. “Here’s a boy with a hatchet, alone. Looks suspicious, very.”
“Tell him to stay where he is till I get there. Go ahead now and give me a point to turn on.”
“You hear him?” said John to Dannie. “You stand right there by that rock, and don’t you move an inch till he comes up.”