“If you don’t think so, just start out without one,” laughed Felix Cottle in his peculiar voice. “I’ll bet you couldn’t find the mine even if you had full directions.”
“Why?”
“Because of its peculiar situation. Many a man has been fooled on it.”
“And you say you can take us there in a week?” asked Mr. Whyland.
“I can, on horseback or muleback.”
“And prove to us beyond a doubt that it is really the Aurora?”
“Yes; and that it is run by Colonel Men—”
Cottle stopped short. Oliver took him up.
“Colonel Mendix.” He finished.