"Why didn't you wake us up?" demanded John.
"Because I wasn't sure that I myself didn't need waking up."
"You're a great lad," said John scornfully. "Zeke," he called, turning to the guide, "Fred thinks he saw those two men that were in our camp last night come back."
The guide looked keenly at Fred, and it was plain he instantly was interested and perhaps alarmed.
"What were they doin'?" he asked slowly.
"Why, they were moving about the camp," replied Fred. "It didn't seem to me they were here more than five or ten minutes but just as I was about to call you or the boys they disappeared."
Zeke said no more as he turned at once to the place where the garments and implements of Simon Moultrie had been placed.
The four boys were aware now that the guide was somewhat alarmed and instantly all four ran to join him.
"You see it is gone," said Zeke blankly as he displayed the empty pockets in the coat of the dead prospector.
"Gone!" exclaimed the Go Ahead Boys together.