“All of ’em. I began in the potato field where they left off surveying that night, and I pulled ’em out all the way through the meadow, and across the road, and in the graveyard, and down the gap, and along the hill on the other side.”
“You made a clean sweep of it, didn’t you?”
“Yes, sir; I think I found every one, as far as I went.”
“Was any one there with you?”
“No, sir. I did it all alone. Oh, yes! there was some one with me comin’ back. The other engineers. I met ’em in the gap.”
“You mean the engineers of the T. & W.?”
“Yes, sir.”
“So they were with you, were they?”
“Yes, sir. But not until after I was all through an’ comin’ home. Then they made me go back with ’em.”
“Down through the gap?”