"He is an animal just as we are, or perhaps we thought we saw Tommy do the things he did." "When you found that basket of fruit, Bastin, which the natives brought over in the canoe, was there a bough covered with red flowers lying on the top of it ?" "Yes, Arbuthnot, one bough only; I threw it down on the rock as it got in the way when I was carrying the basket." "Which flowering bough we all thought we saw the Sleeper Oro carry away after Tommy had brought it to him." "Yes; he made me pick it up and give it to him," said Bastin.
"Well, if we did not see this it should still be lying on the rock, as there has been no wind and there are no animals here to carry it away.
You will admit that, Bickley ?" He nodded.
"Then if it has gone you will admit also that the presumption is that we saw what we thought we did see ?" "I do not know how that conclusion can be avoided, at any rate so far as the incident of the bough is concerned," replied Bickley with caution.
Then, without more words, we started to look.

At the spot where the bough should have been, there was no bough, but on the rock lay several of the red flowers, bitten off, I suppose, by Tommy while he was carrying it.

Nor was this all.

I think I have mentioned that the Glittering Lady wore sandals which were fastened with red studs that looked like rubies or carbuncles.

On the rock lay one of these studs.
I picked it up and we examined it.