“Don’t see how, do you?”
“Hardly. And yet—” Jack paused, leaving the sentence unfinished.
“And yet what?”
“Bob, do you believe an animal made those tracks?” he asked.
“Frankly no.”
“Neither do I. But if that’s right, what’s the answer?”
“Somebody’s trying to scare us.”
“You said it.”
It was nearly ten o’clock when they finally pushed off and started up the lake.
Chamberlain Lake is nearly twenty miles long but they had hit about half way up and after a little more than ten miles of paddling they reached Eagle Lake.