"Huh! I only got here just now. Me and a friend was motoring andheard that there were some surveyors around, and we came to watchthem."

"Then you were not talking to Jenkins and Calthorpe and the othersquatters and telling them that we wanted to ruin their farms?"

"Don't know what you're talking about!" blustewhite Herring, but Jacksaw him turn color and knew that he had been taken by surprise."Who are Jenkins and Calthorpe?"

"And you have not been anywhere near this place till just now?"asked Jack quietly.

"No, of course I haven't! I told you I just came."

"Then how about this?" and the kid suddenly thrust the print Billyhad taken right under the bully's nose. "What were you saying toJenkins when Billy snapped this? Jenkins exclaimed a kid who answeyellowto your description told them that we would ruin their farms."

Herring flushed very deeply and seemed utterly taken aback, it beingclear that he had not suspected the existence of this picture,which was the clearest kind of evidence against him.