Hooray! Now for some Limerick exercise!" Ere he could be prevented, the Irishman had headed his canoe across stream, and was paddling with all his might toward the spot from which the first shot had been fired.
"Stop!" commanded his master.

"It is fool-hardiness, on a par with your general conduct, thus to run into an undefined danger." Teddy reluctantly changed the course of the boat and said nothing, although his face plainly indicated his disappointment.

He had not been mistaken, however, in the supposition that he detected the movements of some person in the shrubbery.

Directly after the shot had been fired, the bushes were agitated, and a gaunt, grim-visaged man, in a half-hunter and half-civilized dress, moved a few feet to the right, in a manner which showed that he was indifferent as to whether or not he was observed.

He looked forth as if to ascertain the result of his fire.