“No it isn’t!” thought Bill Cromley, but he kept this opinion to himself.
It would be a week before actual work could be begun in the mine, and, meanwhile, Professor Snodgrass wandered here and there gathering wonderful specimens and, at the same time, gaining in health.
One day, about a week after they had reached Leftover, Ned proposed to his chums:
“Let’s go to Echo Canyon.”
“Where’s that?” asked Bob.
“It’s a gulch about five miles from here, so one of the new miners told me, where the echoes sound just as if some one were talking to you. He says it’s a great place.”
“Know how to get there?” Jerry wanted to know.
“I think so.”
“All right, let’s go.”
“And—well, now—maybe we’d better take some sandwiches along,” proposed Bob diffidently.