You might as well go to sleep," Whitey said to him.
"Sleep! Ah couldn't sleep in Mistah Vanderbilt's bed." "Well, stay awake, then," said Whitey, as he left the bunk house, followed by Injun.
In spite of Injun's belief that the men had not been in the ranch house, the boys took a look around, but nothing had been disturbed.

Then, as they dressed, they talked things over.

Whitey was not sorry that Bill Jordan was away.

While not one to think ill of people, Whitey always had believed that String and Ham were queer, and the affairs of the night seemed to point to the truth of this.

If Whitey could learn what sort of mischief the men were up to, it would be a feather in his cap, and it would give him great satisfaction to say "I told you so" to Bill, who always was so sure of himself.