"The water in that creek would no doubt spread underground, and this is evidently an unusually dry season.

Still, Grenfell spoke of a mile or two of water.

Where has it gone ?" "That," explained Devine, "seems the simplest thing of all.

Anyway, I'll give you my theory.

When I crawled along the edge of the willows this afternoon, I found the outlet of an old creek and a beaver-dam.
Now we're assuming that the creek I've mentioned once ran into the lake just here, that is, before a snowslide filled up the ravine with debris and diverted the creek into the other gully, the mouth of which is--below--the beaver-dam." "You have explained how the water got here, not how it got away," said Weston, impatiently.
"No," replied Devine.