The cabin was roughly but almost luxuriantly furnished and consisted of at least two rooms. The front room, in which they found themselves, contained a large massive table in the center and a half dozen roughly built, but comfortable easy chairs, four of them being rockers. A huge fireplace occupied nearly the whole of one end while the side away from the door was lined with bunks. Several bear and deer skins were on the floor and above the fireplace an enormous moose head was fastened to the logs, the antlers touching the top of the room. Many skins of different animals adorned the walls. Altogether it was a most homelike appearing room and, for a moment, the boys gazed about spellbound.
"Nice place you have here," Jack finally declared.
"Oui, eet ver' bon," their host replied evidently pleased with the praise.
"Did you build it?" Bob asked.
"Non, me no build heem."
"Bought it, eh?"
"Non, no buy heem."
Evidently the man did not intend to enlighten them as to the means by which he had secured possession of the cabin and Bob quickly decided that it would not be wise to press the matter. Instead he asked:
"Are we to consider ourselves prisoners?"
For a moment the man did not answer then, then with a slight shrug of his massive shoulders, he said: