Part 5 (1/2)
”And what's that?” Pee-wee asked
”That there wasn't,” Roy said ”Put it in your pocket and co of a joke and attached no significance to it, still the discovery of these old papers which had now noto them as they made their way to the old camp But the consensus of opinion was that these old mildewed reood is a letter when the felloho sent it is already home?” Doc Carson asked
”What use is a leave of absence that expired two or three years ago?”
Connie Bennett added
”If that felloay yet, he's overstaying his leave, that's sure,”
said Roy
”What good is a Sunday dinner that soo?”
Doc queried
”Maybe he's up there eating it yet,” Will Dawson suggested
”That's the way our young hero would do,” said Roy
”Do you mean to say it isn't important--that dinner?” Pee-wee demanded
”Sure, all dinners are iood If it was only six , but _two years_--”
”You're crazy!” vociferated Pee-wee
”Sure,” said Roy, ”one dinner is as important as another if notto see that girl,” Pee-wee said
”At dinnerti to find out who that fellow is, I've got his finger prints here, too, on this card--”
”G-o-o-d night,” laughed Roy ”The boy scout Sherlock Hoirl in Atlanta Penitentiary before you get through”
”Let's see the finger prints?” Westy asked
Pee-wee showed hier print on the face of it and two on the back It looked as if soreasy hands had taken the card up as one usually holds a card
CHAPTER VII
THEN AND NOW