They left the garden, and went down the road to the stable, Wally passively following Grant's lead.

Someone came hurrying after them, and they turned to see Jack.

The others had evidently stayed to hear the legal harangue to a close.
"Say, Stanley says there's four beside the fellows we saw," Jack announced, rather breathlessly, for he had been running through the loose, heavy soil of the garden to overtake them.

"They've located twenty acres apiece, he says--staked 'em out in the night and stuck up their notices--and everyone's going to STICK.

They're all going to put in grizzlies and mine the whole thing, he told dad.