I don't know," answered Hippy.
"Wait! Me make fire," directed Willy.
The Overlanders, having sat their saddles so long, were literally sticking to the leather, but wrenched themselves loose, slid off and leaned against the steaming sides of their ponies, while water from the trees filtered over them and ran in rivulets down their coats.
The flame of a cheerful campfire showed through the mist and was greeted with a hoarse cheer by the cold Overland Riders.
"Is this the place where we are to stay until Mr.Gray joins us ?" called Grace.
"Yes," answered the Indian.
"Land sakes! I never could have found it," exclaimed the forest woman.
"Leastwise not in the dark.

Reckon I might a follered the river and got here somehow, but not the way that pesky savage took us, and ter think I had ter be showed by a heathen how to get here." The fire flamed into a snapping blaze, and then to the delight of the party, they saw near at hand a large lean-to and two smaller ones.
"Willy, did you make them for us ?" wondered Anne.
"Yes.

Me make 'em." "But, they must be soaked through," protested Nora.

"How shall we be able to sleep in a lean-to on a night like this." "No leak.

Bark on roof," the Indian informed her.
"Come, girls.