We said that that had been our case, too.

Then they said they had walked thirty English miles the day before, and asked how many we had walked.

I could not lie, so I told Harris to do it.

Harris told them we had made thirty English miles, too.

That was true; we had "made" them, though we had had a little assistance here and there.
After breakfast they found us trying to blast some information out of the dumb hotel clerk about routes, and observing that we were not succeeding pretty well, they went and got their maps and things, and pointed out and explained our course so clearly that even a New York detective could have followed it.