"So I was, but it was too slow there."
"So you thought you'd come here and make trouble for us?"
"Huh! I only got here just now. Me and a friend was motoring and heard that there were some surveyors around, and we came to watch them."
"Then you were not talking to Jenkins and Calthorpe and the other squatters and telling them that we wanted to ruin their farms?"
"Don't know what you're talking about!" blustered Herring, but Jack saw him turn color and knew that he had been taken by surprise. "Who are Jenkins and Calthorpe?"
"And you have not been anywhere near this place till just now?" asked Jack quietly.
"No, of course I haven't! I told you I just came."
"Then how about this?" and the boy suddenly thrust the print Billy had taken right under the bully's nose. "What were you saying to Jenkins when Billy snapped this? Jenkins said a boy who answered to your description told them that we would ruin their farms."
Herring flushed deeply and seemed utterly taken aback, it being clear that he had not suspected the existence of this picture, which was the clearest kind of evidence against him.
He tried to snatch it out of Jack's hand, but the boy was too quick for him and drew it back, saying: