'Hold on there--I'll be with you in two twos!'

'Wouldn't break my neck about it, old man,' said Harry sarcastically,
'p'raps the boy made that specimen out of a door knob an' a bit of
brick.'

'Did he, but--That's just the same class o' stone as the specimen
Henderson found in the back paddock twelve years ago, that sent everyone
daft after a reef there. Come on.'

McKnight was now much the most eager of the three, and led the way at a
great pace to Peterson's house. Peterson was more easily convinced, and
in a few minutes the four joined Downy at Mrs. Hardy's. The detective had
borrowed a coil of rope, the necessary tools were provided, and the party
set off. The five no sooner appeared on the flat with their burdens than
they were sighted by many of the people of Waddy, now eagerly on the
lookout for adventure, and before they reached the bush they had quite a
mob at their heels, fed by a thin stream of men, women, and children
hurrying to witness the newest development of Waddy's latest and greatest
affair.

Dick led the men into the Gaol Quarry, and at the spring turned and
pointed the way through the scrub growth under which he and his mates
always crawled to get at the opening leading into the Mount of Gold.

'In there,' he said, 'agin the wall.'

Harry and McKnight broke a passage through the saplings and ti-tree.

''Tween them two rocks,' said Dick; 'low down under the fern.'