Part 2 (1/2)
”I can give you a chance to earn so man said ”Do you think you could stick?”
”Our middle na?”
”Ca is named after us,” Connie Bennett of the Elk Patrol said
”We'd rather camp than eat”
”No ouldn't,” vociferated Pee-wee Harris
”What kind of hours?” Doc Carson of the Ravens inquired
”The usual kind,” Roy volunteered, and put it up to their new friend if this were not so ”The same kind we use in school, hey?” he added
”Give him a chance to tell us what it is,” said Westy Martin of Roy's patrol ”We all started saying we'd like to earn some money; talk is cheap”
”Sure, that's e use sowe couldn't afford it”
”Well,” said the young ot a job and I need help It's outdoors and itour own et a little money out of it; not er said, perhaps the way he said it, but so caused the fellow of about twenty-three or four and of very shabby appearance The threadbare suit which he woreservice and either it had never been a very trim fit or he had lost flesh His face, indeed, see thin and pale, and there was a kind of haunting look in his eyes
But his demeanor was creditable, he seemed quite free of any taint of the shi+ftlessness which his appearance ested, and his a nonsense was open and pleasant Mr
Bennett contee of dubiousness in his look
But the scouts liked him
”What's the nature of the work?” Mr Bennett asked
The youngdirectly questioned but no one would have said it was ht shoards strangers
”It's taking doo or three buildings,” he said; ”just shacks My name is Blythe”
”Here in town?”
”No, up at the old caoverns to work up there?”
”I'll help you tear down Ca the jobs out piecehter ”Anybody that wants to tear a building down can get per I undertook three If I could get some help and do it in a ot anybody so far I suppose that's because it's out of the way”
”Oh, then you don't work for the wrecking concern?” Mr Bennett queried
”Only that way,” the stranger said
”You belong hereabouts?”