He had never expected to enjoy being an outlaw.

But under the influence of her enthusiasm and his own youthfulness, he began to take a certain interest in the details of her scheme--to plan with her as though it was going to be merely a camping out for pleasure.

That, of course, was the boy in him rising to the bait of a secret cave in the mountains, and exchanging heliograph signals with the heroine of the adventure, and lying upon a ledge before his cave watching for enemies.

There would be the bears, too, that Hank Brown had said would be ambling up there to their winter quarters.

And there would be the scream of the mountain lions--Jack had more than once heard them at night down in the forest below him, and had thrilled to the sound.