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The road map that the boys had brought along showed them that they were now eleven miles from Gridley . `` Pretty fair work , '' muttered Tom , `` considering that these roads were built by men who had never seen any better kind . '' `` We can more than double the distance , '' suggested Dave , `` before we go into camp for the night . '' `` If we hike a couple more miles this morning , then halt , get the noon meal and rest until two o'clock , '' replied young Prescott , `` I think we shall do better . '' `` If we 've gone only eleven miles , '' protested Darrin , `` then I 'm certainly good for twenty-five miles in all to-day , and I believe the rest of you are , too . '' `` Wait until we 've done eighteen or twenty miles , '' Prescott proposed . `` Then we can take a vote about making it twenty-five . ''