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The man who stood before them, seeking to open the door leading into the house was indeed the lone dweller from Hogs' Hollow. He had heard the two approaching boys and had hidden himself in the cupola of the abandoned house, not dreaming for a moment that they would enter the place. He had heard the scratching made by them as they climbed the porch and their appearance at the open front of the little tower took him by surprise. For a single moment his little eyes gleamed with an impulse of violence, but Buck looked fairly husky and Drummer, though short, was stocky. The man spoke up in a high voice.
"What you fellers want? I ain't done nothing to you!"