Chapter 30
Half an hour previously d**k Hayden and his congenial friend, Bob Stubbs, reached the cabin. They had much pleasant and jocose conversation on the way touching their young captive, and how he had probably passed the night. They had personal injuries to avenge, and though Achilles was responsible for them, they proposed to wreak vengeance on the boy whom a luckless fate had thrown into their hands. "My shoulders are sore yet," said Hayden, "over the fall that big brute gave me." "And my head hasn't got over the crack I got when he laid me flat with his club," responded Stubbs. "Well, we've got a friend of his, that's one comfort. I'm going to take it out of the kid's hide." "You don't mean to-do for him?" said Stubbs, cautiously. "I don't mean to kill him, if that's what you mean, Stub
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