"Is he all right?" Bob had asked.
"Oui, heem bon man," Lucky had assured them.
And now they soon found that he was again right for, as soon as they had entered the store, Jules Lamont gave them a hearty welcome and assured them that he had plenty of room for them in his cabin just out behind.
Jules Lamont had a wife who was fully as kind in her welcome as was he and she was a splendid cook as they soon learned.
"Gee, but it seems kind of good to get into a bed once more," Jack said when, soon after supper, their host had shown them to a well furnished room above the living room. There were two beds in the room and Lucky occupied the other.
Yes, he remembered Silas Lakewood very well and the man Long as well, he told them the next morning when, while eating breakfast, they told him of their errand.
"They stay here three four days," he told them in almost perfect English.
"Did they say where they were going?" Bob asked.
"They say they go up river, but not how far."
"And you haven't seen them since?"