Boys, it's a fortune fer us.' 'Remember Phil Doon's a shareholder, too; his father's got to be in it,' said Dick.
'To be sure, lad, to be sure; all honest an' fair to the boy pioneers.' Dick felt little enthusiasm about the Mount of Gold just then, for the loss of the bag of stolen gold troubled him sorely.

He feared that Detective Downy regarded him as a liar and a cheat.
CHAPTER XX.
After coming up Downy examined the opening in the rock critically.
'Do you think a man might have made his way through that hole before you broke the edges down ?' he asked Harry.
'Well, yes, with some crowding I think he might've.' 'Yet the boy said he had to squeeze his way through.

Did you notice if the opening had been enlarged recently?
Were there indications of recent breakages ?' 'Yes, the stone had been broken in places.

I s'posed the boys did that.' 'Perhaps.

Here, Dick.' Dick was quite sure neither he nor any of his mates had increased the opening.