It 's goin' t' be long huntin'.

But I guess we kin do it." In the search which followed, the man of the cheery voice seemed to the youth to possess a wand of a magic kind.

He threaded the mazes of the tangled forest with a strange fortune.

In encounters with guards and patrols he displayed the keenness of a detective and the valor of a gamin.

Obstacles fell before him and became of assistance.