broke in Jack, "and you can tell us nothing."

Jenkins seemed a good deal put back by this speech and stammered
not a little as he replied:

"Huh! yer didn't know who he was this afternoon, 'cause ye asked
me if I had saw him. Guess ye're only bluffin' an' don't know-----"

"Look at this!" said Jack, suddenly shoving the print he had received
from Billy that very evening under the man's nose, there being
light enough for him to see it. "Do you recognize any one there?"

"By Jinks!" exclaimed Jenkins, who recognized his own portrait first
of all. "You've been takin' our picters to use ag 'in' us. Gimme
that!"

Jenkins tried to snatch the picture as Jack drew it back, but
Percival, by a quick movement, threw his hand up and said sharply:

"No, you don't, my man! We want to keep that picture for evidence.
Besides, even if you got it, we can print a hundred more of them."

"Ain't you goin' to give us anything for telling you who it was?"
Jenkins asked in a tone of disappointment.

"No, for you have not told us."

"But I told you it was one of your fellers this afternoon. You
wouldn't ha' known anything about it if I hadn't."

"Oh, yes we would," laughed Billy. "That picture was already taken
when you mentioned the matter, and the minute we saw it we would
have known that something was wrong, even if you hadn't said a word."

"And we ain't goin' to get nothing?"

"No!" said Jack in a tone of decision.

"You may get what you don't want, though I won't say but that you
deserve it all right," laughed Percival "I mean a term in jail."

"And so this was what you sent to us for?" said Jack. "You might
have known you would get nothing. Come, Dick. Come, Billy. There
is no use wasting any more time on these fellows."

"You look out that we don't go on our own hook and stop your workin'
the branch," snarled Calthorpe. "We can make trouble for you
and we-----"

"Herring cannot have paid them anything for what they did," remarked
Percival as they walked back toward the middle of the camp. "That
is like him, to promise them something for a service and then forget
all about it. I don't believe he ever intended to pay them."

"That's nothing new for Pete," said Billy. "The man or boy who
relies on that fellow keeping his word is going to get left."

The work was resumed the next morning and progressed rapidly, many
of the boys from the camp who were not of the surveying party coming
to see how things