The heat therefore remains in the lean-to.

Even a low fire will keep one warm in such a shelter in the coldest of winter nights," Grace explained to her companions.
In the meantime Tom and Hippy were discussing the attack of the previous night, and Tom Gray was cautioning Hippy to be on the lookout all the time and see to it that the Overland girls were protected.
"We are getting into rough country.

I don't need to tell you that," said Tom.

"Law is quite a way removed from us, and it takes time to get the law operating in the Big Woods country.

By the time it does get working, the guilty ones generally are out of reach.