"We will if we have to do it."
"What elevation do you work from?"
"We ain't quite decided. You see, we only just made camp. Mebbe we'll work up here first."
"You'll have to see Mr. Newton about that," said Spencer.
"We'll see him," said the spokesman. "We're going to look along up this creek a piece, now."
"Think perhaps you'll start your survey at an obtuse angle or an angle of sixty degrees, which?" asked Spencer gravely.
"Sixty degrees," replied the man, as if glad to get off so easily.
"Now, I'm quite sure they're no engineers," said Spencer to Glen as the two men followed Matt along the bank of Buffalo Creek. "I rather thought they weren't from the start, which is why I asked such foolish questions. Well, that relieves my anxiety about competition."
"What do you reckon they are?" asked Glen.
"Two farmer boys who want to work Matt for something, I suppose. We ought to warn him to be on guard, but really I think a few lessons will do Matt lots of good."