Elmer shook his head in the negative.
"Then where did it come from?" asked Landy.
"I didn't tell you, boys," went on the patrol leader; "but knowing that six in the tent would make it stuffy, I planned to sleep out here under the stars, just as I've done many a night, you know. And so I was in a pretty good position to hear where that whoop came from."
"Tell us, Elmer, tell us right away," demanded Landy, impatiently.
"The tent!" said Elmer, without hesitation.
The boys stared at each other.
"Say, he means that one of us let that yell out," remarked Landy.
"I know I didn't!" declared George.
"Not guilty!" chirped Ted immediately, holding up his right hand as he spoke.
"Noddings doing, poys, mit me," Adam ventured to say, positively.