"It's the truth, every word of it," said Don, almost indignantly.
"O, I don't doubt that you found something on the island and drove it off," replied the General, "but I don't think it was a bear." "What was it ?" asked Don.
"It was something you will not be likely to catch in your trap.

It was Godfrey Evans." Don dropped his knife and fork, and settled back in his chair.

"We saw tracks in the mud that did not look to me like bear tracks, that's a fact," said he.

"If that was Godfrey, he's the one who stole our canoe." "Then we have had all our trouble for nothing," said Bert.
"Perhaps not," replied his father.

"The island has been much frequented by bears ever since I can remember, and it may be that your labor will be rewarded in a day or two.