Scarcely a hundred paces beyond the spruce the dark shadow of a cabin came into view.

Into this he was carried and placed on something which he took to be a box.

Then a light was struck.
For the first time Philip's astonished eyes had a view of his captors.
One of them was an old man, a giant in physique, with a long gray beard and grayish yellow hair that fell to his shoulders.

His companion was scarcely more than a boy, yet in his supple body, as he moved about, Philip recognized the animal-like strength of the forest breed.

A word spoken in a whisper by the boy revealed the fact that the two were father and son.