In fact I have almost learned it by heart. I
haven't any doubt the man who said it was a little runt not much bigger
than you are."
Fred's face flushed as the Go Ahead Boys laughed and conversation ceased
for a time.
The boys had given their word not to leave the region of the big tree.
There was therefore nothing to be done except to endure the waiting until
Zeke and the Navajo returned.
Occasionally the conversation turned on the subject of the claim which
Simon Moultrie plainly had believed he had discovered.
Fred, who was the most enthusiastic of the Go Ahead Boys, was positive the
lost claim would be found and that the future wealth of the four boys was
therefore certain.
The others may have been as eager as Fred to find the place for which they
were seeking, but they were more restrained in their manner and inclined
to tease their enthusiastic comrade.
"Zeke told me," suggested Grant soberly, "that really this Simon Moultrie
was crazy."
"Is that so?" retorted Fred. "Then I suppose you're ready to say next that
everything he saw was crazy too."
"Not quite as bad as that," laughed Grant, "but I do say that it's
possible, if Simon Moultrie really was insane, he may have imagined he saw
things or found them when he didn't see them at all.
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