Part 28 (2/2)
”Monkey Rae and Sam Tompkins,” answered Win
”How do you know?” asked Pepper
”I heard the,” explained Win ”I was up in the woods to-day and I heard so, and I listened to hear who it was”
”What did they say?”
”Monkey said he guessed there'd be a surprise party here in the , when you found you didn't have any boat to roith Sao down to the boathouse to-night, after it got dark, and fix it Saht, and nobody would knoho did it”
”Do you think he meant our shell?”
”Sure,” replied Win ”He said he was going to get square with Rand Peyton and Pepper Blake So I hid in the bushes until they went away, and I came down here to tell Gerald”
”Thank you, Win,” said Rand; ”we are ever so ed to you”
”Don't let them know I told you,” pleaded Win, ”or they will half kill ”
”Sure not,” proain and no one will know you have been here”
”Well, what do you think of that!” exclaione
”Shure, an' phatnow?” demanded Gerald, who came across the lawn as his brother slipped away
”Moreto surprise us to-night”
”Is he now?” asked Gerald; ”and phat is he up to now?”
”He is going to smash the shell so we can't row to-morrow,” replied Donald
”Faith, I think he'll find it a hard nut to crack,” asserted Gerald, dropping his brogue in his indignation ”Though there isn't anything surprising about that I don't think Monkey could surprise us, except by trying to be good”
”And I don't believe he'll try that,” laughed Pepper
”What shall we do about it?” asked Gerald ”Tell the colonel?”
”I a to it,” said Donald ”And it may be possible we can take care of Monkey and Sao down to the boathouse and capture thereed Rand ”We can slip away, one at a tio first and the rest of you can join ht, and we can easily find places to hide around the house”