Without having any particular idea where we were heading for, we went up the street, and the first thing we knew we were looking down at the mill and the dam, and we stopped and looked her over kind of proud-like. It does make you sort of proud to look at something you’re running yourself. I never thought much of Silas Doolittle Bugg’s mill till I got mixed up with it, but after that it seemed to me like it was one of the biggest and remarkablest mills in the country. “Fine mill,” says I. “You bet,” says Binney. “There hain’t many mills like that.” “It’s a m-m-money-maker,” says Mark, “when it’s run r-right.” That was Mark, always thinking about the practical end of it. “Hey!” says Tallow. “What was that?” “What?” says I. “I thought I seen something flash down there—like a match or a candle or somethin’.” “G’wan!” says Binney. “Firefly, most likely.” “’Twan’t, neither, no firefly,” says he. “There—look!” Sure as shooting, there was some kind of a light, but it didn’t look like it was on the ground. It looked sort of up in the air—as if it was somewheres up toward the top of the mill. “It’s flyin’,” says Binney. Mark he didn’t say anything, but looked mighty sharp. In a minute the flash came again, and Mark says: “’Tain’t f-f-flyin’. It’s inside the mill. We s-seen it when it passed a winder or a crack or somethin’. Somebody’s p-p-prowlin’ around there.” “Let’s git the constable,” says I. “Constable n-nothin’,” says he. “No tellin’ where that old coot is, and by the time we got him located, no t-t-tellin’ what might happen. I’m goin’ down there to find out. You kin come or you kin stay.” “I guess,” says Tallow, “that if you kin stand it, we kin.” “Got your flash-light?” says I. “No,” says Mark. “All right,” says I, “but I hain’t what you might call tickled to death about skirmishin’ around that mill in the pitch dark. There hain’t even a moon.” “All right,” says Binney. “You wait here.” That made me mad. “I guess,” says I, “if a little runt like you kin monkey around in the dark without swallerin’ his Adam’s apple, I kin do about as well,” and I started off ahead of them just to show them that I had as much sand as anybody.