"There, there!" soothed Betty, with her arms about the shrinking figure, "you'll be all right soon."
"I told those fellows it was foolish to set that bear trap," asserted the lumberman, "but they would have it."
"Well, there's one satisfaction," grimly spoke one of his companions, "it will need a lot of repairin' before it's fit for use again," for they had chopped the front away to more quickly release Amy.
Will was peering about, and, as the party made ready to start for the cabins, the lumbermen going back to their fishing, Grace's brother said:
"Unless I'm mistaken this trap is on dad's land, which means that that Jallow crowd must have trespassed here to set it. Take a look, Allen, and see if the boundary line doesn't bring the trap on this side."
"It certainly does," declared the young lawyer. "They were trespassers, all right."
"And I'll let 'em know it, too," said Will.
"Oh, please don't quarrel!" begged Grace.
Amy was fast recovering her composure, and she and her girl chums went on ahead, the boys coming more leisurely. Soon the girls were out of sight in a little valley.
The boys were talking about the recent happening, when, as they came from a little clump of trees, they saw Alice and Kittie, with the two boys who, according to the lumberman, had set the trap.