"What's your way?"
"You do exactly as I say."
"I'm listening."
"Meet me at my house two hours after midnight. We'll cross the hills to Glory Rock; we won't be able to walk up Coon Valley. Then you're to hide behind or beside the rock, any place you can listen without being seen, until I say you can come out."
"Now look here, Ted, I like you and I like your dad, but I'm not sticking my neck out for anybody."
"I promise you won't, and I also promise that you will get a chance to bring Dad in."
The game warden pondered. Finally he agreed, "All right, Ted, it'll be your way. But if there are any tricks, somebody's going to get hurt."
"O.K. Meet me at two?"
"At two."
Ted drove happily to Nels Anderson's modest house and found his friend chopping wood. Nels greeted him with a broad smile.