He's found our gold, an' he's hid it away.

He wants to keep it, an' you know what a stubborn devil he is.

This is just a try on, an' they'll get nothin' out o' Dick Haddon.

If they do they get the gold, an' we're all right if we don't play the fool.' Rogers's reasoning was very good as far as it went; but the discovery of the boy's footprints in the drives had been kept a close secret, or even he might have admitted the wisdom of bolting without delay.
Dick spent a day and two nights in the cell at the watch-house in Yarraman.

Public report at Waddy was to the effect that every influence short of torture had been used in the effort to induce him to divulge the truth, and not a word had he spoken.