Are they yours ?" I told him no and so did Brick and Charlie and we said he had better give them to Mr.Ellsworth.

"One of them is a French coin," Brick said, and he showed it to me and I saw that it was.
"I guess one of the fellows dropped some change climbing over the rail," Charlie said, "and maybe didn't miss it on account of not losing all he had, hey ?" "He'd know if he had a French coin and lost it," Brick said.
It made me feel kind of funny, because all the while I knew where those coins came from.

Anyway, Skinny went and gave them to Mr.Ellsworth and when we were all together at dinner, Mr.Ellsworth asked us if any fellow owned a French coin that was missing.

Nobody said yes, and then he said, kind of funny like, "Well, I suppose this is what our young friend Mr.Walter Harris would call a mystery," and he said we'd put the money in the troop treasury.

Then he gave it to Will Dawson (he's in my patrol), because Will is troop treasurer.
Somebody said, "How about the French coin?
That's no use in the treasury." And Mr.Ellsworth said we'd give that to Skinny, because he found the money.