“Why should we run away like this? We have done nothing,” protested Miss Briggs.
“Mebby we have,” answered Badger enigmatically. “If you folks want to, we can go back soon. Then everythin’ will be all right, but don’t you let anybody know you was near that spouter when it went off, Brown.”
“I want to examine that geyser further,” announced Tom after the party had rested for a few moments. “Now that the excitement is over we will ride back and have a look at it.”
The Overlanders followed Tom, and as they finally came on a level with the “Infant” they discovered two Park guards intently gazing into the hole in the ground left by the explosion.
“What’s the matter?” called Jim Badger.
“I reckon the baby had the colic,” answered a guard.
“Ho, ho; ha, ha!” laughed Chunky. “That’s a good joke.”
“Something must have stopped the vent,” said the guard.
Stacy suggested that perhaps a rock may have got jammed in the hole.
“No harm done. So long,” called the troopers as they started away.