Sleeping Bear was Frontier Shack!

CHAPTER X.
SHOT BY HIS OWN RIFLE.

“Tom Kyle, I say you’ve got Tecumseh!”

The reiteration of the trapper’s declaration followed a minute’s silence.

“Well, what if I have?” hoarsely grated the White Pawnee.

“I want ’im.”

“You do?”

“Certainly; get off!”

Tom Kyle gritted his teeth till they fairly cracked. Then he lowered half unconscious Lina Aiken to the ground, but remained on the iron-gray.

“There’s the girl!” he said.