“What do you want to do?”
“Now, look here,” Jimmie explained. “There’s only one person at the fire from which the signals were sent. He sits there like a wooden Indian, probably three-fourths asleep. The two men who went away on the Louise probably left the camp about the time we left the machine and went over the ridge to seize it. Now, suppose we go down there where that fellow sits alone and hold him up!”
“Hold him up for what?” chuckled Carl, immensely pleased at the idea.
“Information!” answered Jimmie.
“Yes, and I suppose you’d believe anything he told you, wouldn’t you?”
“Indeed, I wouldn’t! But, by going to the camp, we can doubtless learn something regarding the situation.”
Carl hesitated a moment and then asked:
“Did you see our camp from where you lay?”
Jimmie nodded.
“So you saw the commotion down there, too, did you?” he asked.