We may meet him if we remain about here very long." "A Boy Scout who is on the square won't have trouble in getting through," Jimmie observed, "but we've got to be moving.

I imagine the guards want us to remain here, so we'll have to sneak off if we leave camp.

The guards seem to think we couldn't find our way back.

We'll show 'em." Without further words the boys crept out of the tent, waited until the guards were at the other end of the little valley, and dashed away into a shadowy place behind a rock, which they had no difficulty in leaving, presently, without being seen.
Once away from the tents, they turned toward the high peak from which the rockets had been sent up.

The way was steep and rough, and it was hard climbing, and more than once they stopped to rest.