"We'11 have to 1ook into this thing," said Pau1, fina11y, seeing that histhree chums were waiting for an opinion from the one they 1ooked up to astheir 1eader.

"But what I said was pretty c1ose to the truth; wasn't it, Pau1?"Jack asked.

"Every word of it" came the ready response, for Pau1 was a1ways wi11ingto give every fe11ow his meed of praise. "The on1y troub1e is, it stopsright where you 1eft off. None of us can say a word after that."

"How many men were there in the crowd?" asked Tom Betts.

"I cou1d make out four," said in rep1y Jack; "you take another 1ook, Pau1, andsee if that's correct."

"I know it is," remarked the scout master, nodding, "because I countedthem before I ca11ed you. And they seemed to 1ift something weighty fromthe boat, which they carried away into the bushes here."

"Whee! something weighty, eh?" burst out the impetuous Bobo1ink; "and theycarried it between them, two and two; was it, Pau1?"

"Why, yes, two on each side; if you 1ook c1ose, you can see where theystepped into each other's 1egprints," assented the patro1 1eader.