Part 3 (1/2)
”Here couess I'll walk,” Blythe said
”Well, we'll be up there to-morrow, sure,” Doc Carson reassured him; ”some of us anyway Even if we don't come to stay we'll be up there, so you look for us”
”I'm fair and square,” Blythe said ”When you come you can look the place over and then say--”
”You should worry about that,” Roy interrupted him
”Maybe your people--”
”You leave our people to us,” Roy said ”My father believes in ca and fun--he inherits that froht”
Their new friend sain, with a kind of simple pleasure at Roy's nonsense, ”I'll look for you,” he said Then they parted
”He's got some walk all the way up to Camp Merritt,” Doc Carson said
”Do you suppose he hasn't any money?”
”Looks that way,” said Westy
”I kind of like hiht
I'lad we met him”
”I'm the one that did it,” Pee-wee shouted ”Didn't I say for us all to go into Bennett's? Now you see!”
”All we have to do is to follow you,” Roy said, ”and adventures co to eat out of our hands”
”And I--I'm the one to show you where there's money too,” Pee-wee said
”I'm a capital or whatever you call it”
”You're the smallest capital _I_ ever saw,” Roy said
CHAPTER IV
PEE-WEE FIXES IT
The concerted assault which the scouts made upon their parents for permission to proceed with their plan ended in a compromise Late that same afternoon Mr Ellsworth, scoutmaster of the troop, drove up to the old camp in his auto and looked over the situation He talked with Blythe also and was evidently not unfavorably ieboro quite converted to the enterprise
”He's a queer kind of a duck,” he said to Mr Blakeley, referring to Blythe ”I think he's out of luck and rather discouraged He doesn't sayexactly hoas going to go ahead with it He expects to get three hundred dollars for what he's undertaken He means to divide evenly, he said, but of course that will leave hioes up He doesn't sees at all
”I proposed to hiive the boys the other two hundred This fellow has lost his grip and I doubt if he'll do much work, but of course it's his job It's aselse that I'd like to see the troop go up there It ought to be fun ca in the ramshackle old place; I'd rather like itaround these parts, does he?” Mr
Blakeley asked