"I was thinking of the kidnappers while you were thinking about the mountain.
As long as they went up I thought I might as well let them show us the easy way." "You're a wonder, Slady!" "There are two sides to every mountain," Tom said.
"Like every story, hey ?" "You're a good scout only you don't use your brain enough.

You use your hands and feet and your heart, I can't deny that." "The pleasure is mine," said Hervey.

"We're going to sneak up the back way, hey ?" "No, we're going up the front way," Tom smiled.

"Llewellyn came down the back way." "He's a peach of a scout, hey ?" "The best ever." Hervey had soon a pretty good demonstration of the advantage of using the brain first and the hands and feet afterwards.

And he had a pretty good demonstration of the particular kind of scout that Tom Slade was--a scout that thinks.
They hit into the road about fifty yards from the boat landing and followed it through a valley to where it ran along the foot of the mountain.
"Are you sure this is the right mountain ?" Hervey asked.