"Yes, and I told him at the time it was a piece of foolishness. There's no bears around now, anyhow, and I said some one might get in it by mistake and be caught. I only rigged it up temporary. The two young fellows wanted to see how it worked. They sprung it after I set it, but they must have set it again, after I left, to see how it worked." "Well, it's worked all right--now," said Will, grimly. "Come on, we must get Amy out." "That's what!" cried the lumberman. "Come on, Bill and Tom. Bring your axes." The little party was soon under way, led by the lumberman who recalled the location of the old bear trap. Betty and Grace, with the three boys, brought up in the rear. "To think of poor Amy being in that trap!" mused Frank. "Yes, and it was set by Jake Rossmore and Sam Batty," added Will. "I'll give 'em a piece of my mind when I see 'em!" "Oh, please don't have trouble!" begged his sister. "Trouble! The trouble will all be on their side," announced Will, grimly. It was the matter of but a few moments for the lumbermen, expert as they were with the axes, to release Amy, and she fell sobbing into the arms of her friends. "Oh, take me home! Take me home!" she begged. "There, there!" soothed Betty, with her arms about the shrinking figure, "you'll be all right soon." "I told those fellows it was foolish to set that bear trap," asserted the lumberman, "but they would have it." "Well, there's one satisfaction," grimly spoke one of his companions, "it will need a lot of repairin' before it's fit for use again," for they had chopped the front away to more quickly release Amy. Will was peering about, and, as the party made ready to start for the cabins, the lumbermen going back to their fishing, Grace's brother said: "Unless I'm mistaken this trap is on dad's land, which means that that Jallow crowd must have trespassed here to set it. Take a look, Allen, and see if the boundary line doesn't bring the trap on this side." "It certainly does," declared the young lawyer. "They were trespassers, all right." "And I'll let 'em know it, too," said Will. "Oh, please don't quarrel!" begged Grace. Amy was fast recovering her composure, and she and her girl chums went on ahead, the boys coming more leisurely. Soon the girls were out of sight in a little valley. The boys were talking about the recent happening, when, as they came from a little clump of trees, they saw Alice and Kittie, with the two boys who, according to the lumberman, had set the trap. "Here's where I tackle 'em," said Will. "Go easy, old man," advised Allen. "Say, what do you fellows mean by setting that bear trap on our land?" cried Will, hotly, as he advanced toward the two lads. Alice and Kittie shrank back. "What do you mean?" challenged Jake. "We had a right to set that trap!" "You did not, and one of our friends was just caught in it. You ought to be ashamed of yourselves. And you were on our property, too, not that we care so much about that, though."