“I’ll say you don’t,” Rex agreed, and then added: “Believe me, little Rexie is going to stick close to the fireside after this until he learns the ropes a bit better.”
They were all too tired to think of setting a watch that night.
“We’ll take a chance on it,” Bob declared. “But we’ll make it pretty hard for anyone to get any of our things just the same.”
So as soon as supper was over they rearranged their beds in the form of square, and piled all their supplies in the middle.
“Now Mr. Lalapaloosla has got to step over one of us in order to get away with any of our stuff, and I don’t believe even he can do it without waking at least one of us,” he declared, and Kernertok grunted approval.
They were up with the first break of day and found that nothing had been disturbed nor did a careful search disclose any additional tracks.
“I guess you scared him off,” Jack declared as they gathered about the fire for breakfast.
Breaking camp as soon as possible, they started for the upper end of Lake Umsaskis, which they reached about an hour later. Then, turning slightly to the right, they entered a long narrow pond, which Bob informed them was called Long Pond.
“And it looks as though it were well named,” Rex declared.
“When we get to the upper end of it we’ll enter the Allagash and then it’s only about forty miles to the Little Umsaskis,” Bob told him.