“You’re some scout,” Grove said.
Harry just kept shaking his head and then he said, “Brent, we’ve got to hand it to you fellows. Pee-wee did a pretty good little stunt in deduction himself, and the fact that these spikes are on the left side bears out what he said.”
Then he told Brent about what Pee-wee had said, and Brent said, “Well, it seems we haven’t got anything on Scout Harris, when it comes to deducing.”
“Did you hunt for the tree?” Harry asked him.
Brent said, “No, because we weren’t sure of there being any tree; and you weren’t either. We came up the track hunting for signs of a derailed train, and we found them. It was as easy as pie.”
“Some pie isn’t so easy,” Willie Wide-Awake said.
Brent said, “Alas, ’tis true!” in that funny way he has. I guess little Bill had had some experience, hey?
“Now come back to the tent and I’ll show you something else,” Brent said; “we found it in the bushes when we were collecting firewood. How about you? Are you game for camp-fire to-night?”
“You bet we are,” I said; “I’d rather have a camp-fire any day than an auto trip.”
“You mean any night,” Skinny spoke up.