"If you don't you'll be sorry!" With that the stranger broke into a loping run.

At first glance this gait didn't seem to be a swift one, but it was the long, easy, loping stride of the wolf in motion.

Young Prescott found that he had to exert himself in order to keep up with the other.
"Go back to your shack!" ordered the prowler.
"Hold on a minute, so that I can talk with you," urged Prescott.
By this time they were at a considerable distance from the camp.
Suddenly the prowler halted, wheeling about like a flash, glaring into young Prescott's eyes.
"Now, I'll learn you!" growled the prowler.
"Do you mean that you'll _teach_ me ?" queried Prescott.

"What ?" "I'll learn you," growled the other, "not to keep on banging around me when I don't want you!" "Do you happen to have any idea," Dick persisted coolly, "that your name is probably Page, and that you undoubtedly have a very rich father, who is trying to find you ?" "Where did you read that fairy tale ?" sneered the prowler.
"Partly on your skin to-day," Dick rejoined, "when I came upon you as you were dressing near that pool." "Stop kidding me!" commanded the other sternly.

"And now back to you cosy little bed for you! Fade! Vanish! If you don't then you'll soon wish you had!" But Dick held his ground, despite the very evident sincerity of the other's threat, and gazed unflinchingly back at the prowler.
"Let me tell you," Dick went on.