“Miss Jennie is busy. Come back later and Peleg will attend to you,” returned Ted, quietly.
An instant the lumberjack blinked at him, then burst into a roar of laughter.
“Did you hear that?” he asked, turning to his friends. “Called the ‘Spider’ ‘Miss Jennie,’ says she’s busy and we can come back later?” Then he faced the boys again. “Well, we won’t go! so jump and hustle out the ‘Spider’!”
“Miss Jennie is busy,” repeated Ted.
“Then I’ll find her maself.”
“No, you won’t,” snapped Phil.
“Who’ll stop me?”
“We will.”
“You? Why, with one hand I could wring—”
“That will do, Jonson. I told you to leave Chikau on the day I discharged you,” exclaimed a quiet voice.