Don't git your feelin's too high, 'cause it may have been wiped off the face of the earth." A little later he uttered another cry, and this was the most exultant of all.
"There she is," he said, pointing ahead.

"She ain't been wiped away by nobody or nothin'.

Don't you see her, that big, stout cabin ahead ?" "I do," said young Allen joyously, "and it's the Inn of the Panther as sure as you live." "But I don't see any smoke coming out of the chimney," said Ned, "and there are no gorgeous menials standing on the doorstep waiting for us." "It's been abandoned a long time," said the Panther.

"I can tell that by its looks, but I'm thinkin' that it's good enough fur us an' mighty welcome.

An' there's a shed behind the house that'll do for the horses.
Boys, we're travelin' in tall luck." The cabin, a large one, built of logs and adobe, was certainly a consoling sight.