"
The three boys started to pick out the best spots for making their
beds, each one being governed by some idea of his own. It was lucky
they did not all think alike, or they must have drawn straws for
first choice.
Hugh was carefully laying his blanket down so that he could crawl
into it as if it were a bag, after he had taken his shoes and some
of his outer clothing off, when he felt a gentle tug at his sleeve.
"Hugh!" said a soft voice in a whisper.
"What is it, Ralph?" questioned the other, going right along with what
he was doing in order not to show that there was anything amiss.
"Don't act as if I was saying anything out of the common, Hugh," said
the other; "but first chance you get, peep out of the tail of your
eye at the broken window, and you'll find that we're being watched!"
CHAPTER IV
READING A "SIGN" BY TORCHLIGHT
Of course it gave the leader of the Wolf patrol a thrill when he
heard this low warning from Ralph. You never would have known it,
though, from any uneasy movement on his part.
He knew that the boy who had spent so much of his time in the woods,
trapping the cunning little furry inhabitants in seasons gone by,
would not alarm him needlessly.
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