"The trouble with you, Jack, is that you can't read between the lines. You see, those men were not born yesterday and they could put two and two together."
"But I didn't give them anything to put together," protested John.
"If I recollect aright," suggested Grant, "there was something said about the coat and the tools that the prospector had with him. If I'm correct it seems to me that the men wanted to see the coat and the axe and the spade and the hammer."
"What of it?" demanded John.
"Everything," retorted Grant. "They probably suspected that if there was a coat there were pockets in it. And if there were pockets then there was something in them."
"They guessed right, all right," laughed George.
"Never you mind," said John. "I remember exactly what the diary said and I can draw another picture of that Gulch with just exactly the places marked on it that the prospector had marked."
"Try it," suggested Fred.
"That's just what I'll do," said John as he turned to the tent from which he speedily returned with a pad and pencil.
For a moment no one spoke while John busily made his drawing.