"That way," answered Walter, pointing.

"And you, Ned?"

"Just the opposite direction."

"Chunky, which way would you go?"

"I? I wouldn't go at all. I would just sit right down here, plump."

"You would show your good sense in doing that very thing. Boys, you are all wrong, except Chunky. Mr. Vaughn went that way, to the eastward."

"How do you know?" asked Ned.

"Because I watched him and saw him blaze a tree with his hatchet."

"But we don't see any blazes," objected Walter.

"That is because we are on the wrong side of it, Walt," replied Ned.