“How do you make that out?”
“It is easy enough to see. The top of this hill is smooth, is it not?”
“Yes.”
“The top of theirs is craggy and they cannot climb up to it. Their position is far from the top. A position on the top of yonder hill will easily look down into their camp.”
Clark was surprised, but he saw the logic of Frank’s remark.
“By Jove!” he cried. “Perhaps you are right.”
“I think you will find that I am.”
“But I would have taken my oath that they had the highest position around here.”
“Well, that would seem to be really so, for the hill itself is higher. Yet it is but an optical delusion.”
Clark extended his hand to Frank.