Too many boy belong along Port Adams stop along my fella marster.

Too much walk about." The black drew a scrap of notepaper from under his belt and passed it over.

Sheldon scanned it hurriedly.
"It's from Boucher," he explained, "the fellow who took Packard's place.
Packard was the one I told you about who was killed by his boat's-crew.
He says the Port Adams crowd is out--fifty of them, in big canoes--and camping on his beach.

They've killed half a dozen of his pigs already, and seem to be looking for trouble.

And he's afraid they may connect with the fifteen runaways from Lunga." "In which case ?" she queried.
"In which case Billy Pape will be compelled to send Boucher's successor.
It's Pape's station, you know.