The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine

y of his companions, John said abruptly, "That must b

ight their intense interest was plainly manifest. Zeke was doing his utmost by abs

opportunity. Speaking slowly and as if he was not especially interested, the m

replied John. "We found the body o

you do w

his uncalled-for statements. His obstinacy, however, had been aroused and he

g besides the bones?"

ke here thought that the coyote

You didn't fi

d get a coat and

nd letting me

ee that coat, Zeke. There's no harm in that,"

oat which he had dug from the sand an

man with the scar said abruptly, "I'm

ff an' on the last fifteen year. He never gave up his search for a mine and I guess he never found on

ose happened to h

as I didn't see the skelet

thing 'bout it,"

nobody can tell how long he may have been sick. As I rec'lect, he used to come in about ev'ry Spring and Fall for fresh

t?" inquired the second stranger, w

with his name on it," explained Zeke, "so

papers at all?" aga

showed who he was," said Zek

only thing you have go

e and spade and ham

u got th

ut the camp. I don't know j

us have a lo

see them now. Wa

e part of it before sun-up. It's a good deal cooler travelin' at night, and especially when there's a good moon, than it i

il mornin'," sai

he man added, as he turned to his comp

s departed from the camp and soon disappeared

ack!" exclaimed Fred angrily as

John. "I didn't tell them an

ard about a man dying, though how they ever knew beats me. And they bel

t of

Grant. "You have given them an

hn. "They haven't any paper and the

"I'm sorry you said anyth

d most of the talking. I thought if I told them about the bones we found this afte

oble,' Jack. If those men don't find the place, you may

will

s great discovery. They'll watch us for a while anyway and if we don't do anything, they may make up their minds that we haven't found anything; but i

bout that lat

rsation gradually ceased and for a time the Go Ahead Boys were chiefly interested in the fantastic figures cast by the flames and in the marvelous tints of the clouds as the moonlig

Ahead Boys to turn in. His own example was speedily fo

ed a sight which would have appealed strongly to their distant friends in the east had they been able to see it. Seldom did any figure

ping companions soon recalled the events of the preceding day, and, satisfied, he was about to resume his place on his blanket when he was startled by the sight of two crouching f

tly decided not yet to awaken his comrades. He was eager to

n. They had now drawn close to the camp and again had stopped

xamine what he had discovered in the pockets of a coat he had found. Apparently, however, the search was not altoget

his eyes had deceived him. The silence was still unbroken save by the occasional sigh of some heavy sleeper. The passing clouds wer

tually seeing, two men creep into the camp? Almost convinced that he had been dreaming, Fred did not awaken any of his comrades, thereby