That same old quarry would make a dangerous playground." "Oh!" That was Julius uttering a startled exclamation.

He gripped Horatio so severely by the arm that he must have pinched the other.

At any rate, Horatio gave a jump, and turned white; just as though his nerves had all been stretched to a high tension, so that anything startled him.
"Hey! what did you do that for ?" snapped Horatio, drawing away.
"Think you're a ghost, Julius, and feel like biting, do you?
Well, try somebody else's arm, if you please." "But didn't any of the rest of you see it ?" gasped the said Julius, not deigning to quarrel over such a trivial thing as a pinch.
"See what ?" asked Steve, still staring hard at the quarry, which they were by now fairly well past.
"Well, I don't know exactly what it was," frankly admitted the disturber of the peace.

"But it moved, and beckoned to us to come on over.

You needn't laugh, Steve Mullane, I tell you I saw it plainly right over yonder where that big clump of Canada thistles is growing.
Course I'm not pretending to say it was a man, or yet a wolf, but it was something, and it sure did move!" Hugh was looking with more or less interest.