"Put your clothes on. You'll be all right in a little while. Where did you leave them?"
Stacy pointed back on the desert some distance, whereat Parry laughingly said he would go in search of the clothing.
"Now if you will be good enough to tell me what all this uproar is about, I shall be obliged to you," requested the Professor.
"Why, the boy found a boiling spring——"
"And he fell in," added Ned solemnly.
"He did," agreed the guide, without the suspicion of a smile.
"Is that it, Master Stacy?"
Stacy nodded.
"Tell me about it."
"I—I was walking along with my hands in my pockets——"