human
By gravy! ejaculated the man,
gpt
I--I burned them. I had to, to keep warm, answered Ida Bellethorne haltingly.
human
I burned the table and the chairs and the boxes and then pulled down the berths and burned them. If you hadn't come I don't know what I should have done for a fire.
gpt
By gravy! Burned down the shack itself to keep you warm, I reckon! chuckled Jaroth.
human
Well, we'd better take this girl along with us, hadn't we, Mr. Gordon? She'll set fire to the timber next, if we don't, after she's used up the shack.
gpt
We most surely will take her along to Mountain Camp, declared Betty's uncle.
human
But what puzzles me, is how she ever got here to this, lonely place.
gpt
I was trying to find the Candace Farm,
human
I want to know! said Jaroth.
gpt
That's the stockfarm where they pasture so many sportin' hosses. Candace, he makes a good thing out of it. But it's eight miles from here and not in the direction we're going, Mr. Gordon.
human
We will take her along to Mountain Camp, said Uncle Dick.
gpt
One more will not scare Mrs. Canary, I am sure.