Could it be that the officers were wrong?
that there was no one at the cabin after all?
Then a little penciled gleam set her heart throbbing wildly.

Blankets were fastened over the windows.
Sammy remembered that a few days before a bit of chinking had fallen from between the logs in the rear of the cabin.

She had spoken to her father about it, but it was not likely that he had remembered to fix it.

Cautiously she passed around the house, and, creeping up to the building, through the crevice between the logs, gained a clear view of the interior.
Seated or lounging on chairs and on the floor about the room were eleven men; one, the man who had been with Wash Gibbs at the mill, carried his arm in a sling.

The girl outside could hear distinctly every word that was spoken.