CHAPTER II.
Wherein Freckles Proves His Mettle and Finds Friends Next morning found Freckles in clean, whole clothing, fed, and rested.
Then McLean outfitted him and gave him careful instruction in the use of his weapon.

The Boss showed him around the timber-line, and engaged him a place to board with the family of his head teamster, Duncan, whom he had brought from Scotland with him, and who lived in a small clearing he was working out between the swamp and the corduroy.

When the gang was started for the south camp, Freckles was left to guard a fortune in the Limberlost.

That he was under guard himself those first weeks he never knew.
Each hour was torture to the boy.

The restricted life of a great city orphanage was the other extreme of the world compared with the Limberlost.