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A LIVELY TIME IN THE DARK
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" Your boat."

"I don't know anything about it."

"But you just said—"

At that moment came a cry through the dark woods:

"Shep! Shep! where are you? Go back to the raft! It is all right—we have the outfit back! Go back to the raft!"

It was Snap who was calling, and in another minute he appeared and confronted the crowd that was holding Shep a prisoner.